S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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8272
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
June 9, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. CAHILL -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Education
AN ACT to provide for the payment of the debts and obligations of the
West Park union free school district, in the town of Esopus in the
county of Ulster; to amend chapter 566 of the laws of 1967, relating
to providing for the apportionment of funds to certain special school
districts, in relation to eliminating references to the West Park
union free school district; and to repeal chapter 744 of the laws of
1973 relating to establishing and constituting as a separate union
free school district certain territory in the town of Esopus in the
county of Ulster
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Chapter 744 of the laws of 1973 relating to establishing
2 and constituting as a separate union free school district certain terri-
3 tory in the town of Esopus in the county of Ulster is REPEALED.
4 S 2. Section 1 of chapter 566 of the laws of 1967, relating to provid-
5 ing for the apportionment of funds to certain special school districts,
6 as amended by chapter 478 of the laws of 2006, is amended to read as
7 follows:
8 Section 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 3602 and 3602-b
9 of the education law, and in lieu of any apportionments to which such
10 school districts might otherwise be entitled under such sections or
11 under any other provisions of law, the commissioner of education is
12 hereby authorized to include the following school districts in the annu-
13 al apportionment of public moneys and such apportionment shall be
14 computed in accordance with the provisions of sections two, three and
15 four of this act: union free school district number twenty-seven of the
16 town of Dryden, Tompkins county; union free school district number eight
17 of the town of Canaan, Columbia county; union free school districts
18 numbers ten, eleven, twelve and thirteen of the town of Greenburgh,
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1 Westchester county; union free school districts numbers three and four
2 of the town of Mount Pleasant, Westchester county; union free school
3 district number six, Blythedale, town of Mount Pleasant, Westchester
4 county; and Randolph Children's Home union free school district of the
5 town of Randolph, Cattaraugus county; [West Park union free school
6 district number two, town of Esopus, Ulster county;] common school
7 district number seven of the town of Oyster Bay, Nassau county; the
8 Hopevale union free school district, town of Hamburg, Erie county; and
9 union free school district number three, town of Riverhead, Suffolk
10 county.
11 S 3. Any funds remaining in the possession of the West Park union free
12 school district number two, after all of its debts and obligations have
13 been paid, shall be paid over to each social services district and
14 school district having resident children served by the West Park union
15 free school district number two in the 2010-2011 school year in the same
16 proportion as the number of students placed by each such social services
17 district or school district and served by the West Park union free
18 school district number two in the 2010-2011 school year bears to the
19 total number of students served by the West Park union free school
20 district number two in the 2010-2011 school year. Though the West Park
21 union free school district number two be dissolved, section 1518 of the
22 education law shall be deemed to apply, and it shall continue to exist
23 in law for the purpose of providing for and paying all its just debts
24 and the board of education shall continue to be authorized to receive
25 funds payable to such school district or board of education, including,
26 but not limited to, any tuition reimbursement pursuant to article 81 of
27 the education law for services rendered to students on or before January
28 1, 2011. The board of education shall establish a trust account, annuity
29 or other appropriate account for the purpose of payment to its former
30 employees of the costs of health insurance in retirement and shall
31 deposit into such account all available funds not otherwise encumbered
32 until an amount sufficient to fulfill its projected obligations for the
33 provision of health insurance pursuant to article 11-A of the civil
34 service law are met.
35 S 4. The records of the West Park union free school district number
36 two shall be forwarded to the district superintendent of schools of the
37 board of cooperative educational services of the sole supervisory
38 district of Ulster county for preservation. Notwithstanding any other
39 provision of law to the contrary, such records shall be deemed to be
40 records of the board of cooperative educational services of the sole
41 supervisory district of Ulster county for purposes of local government
42 records management grants pursuant to section 57.35 of the arts and
43 cultural affairs law.
44 S 5. The territory comprising the West Park union free school district
45 number two, town of Esopus, county of Ulster, shall revert to and become
46 a part of the Kingston city school district in the county of Ulster.
47 S 6. This act shall take effect July 1, 2011; provided that if this
48 act shall not have become a law on or before July 1, 2011, then this act
49 shall take effect immediately and shall be deemed to have been in full
50 force and effect on and after July 1, 2011.