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S3882Senate2011-2012 Session

Legalizes, validates, ratifies and confirms actions of the Belleville Henderson central school district with respect to certain building aid contracts

Sponsor Patty RitchieSD-48Affects Education
Status
In Senate Committee
Education
Impact
Pending
Passage
Pending

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Patty Ritchie

Senator · Senate District 48

Chair, Agriculture

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History

  1. Referred to education
  2. Committed to rules
  3. Advanced to third reading
  4. 2nd report cal.
  5. 1st report cal.566
  6. Committee discharged and committed to education
  7. Referred to local government

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Sponsor's memo

BILL NUMBER:S3882

Title of bill

An act in relation to legalizing, validating, ratifying and confirming actions of the Belleville Henderson central school district with respect to certain building aid contracts

Purpose

To allow Belleville Henderson central school district to continue phase two of their capital project.

Summary

Section 1 provides the legislative intent.

Section 2 provides that all acts relating to Belleville Henderson Central School District's two projects approved by the State Education Department be legalized, validated, ratified and confirmed, notwithstanding any failure to comply with the approval and filing provisions of the education law or any other law or statutory authority, rule or regulation, in relation to omissions, error, defect, irregularity or illegality in such proceedings had and taken.

Justification

The Belleville Henderson Central School District received voter approval on February 23rd, 2009 for a capital project that provides critical upgrades to the schools roof, cost and energy saving measures, and improvements to one of the most renowned secondary education agricultural programs in the country. In June of 2010, the State Education Department agreed to contribute $2.77 of the $8.1 million project by way of reorganization aid. The remaining $5.33 million was approved by voters to be raised from local taxes. Governor Paterson vetoed the measure that would grant a necessary extension to complete phase two of the project which expired in October of 2010.

The tax payers of the Belleville Henderson Central School District will incur dramatically increased tax rates to make up for the loss of the reorganizational aid in order to complete phase two of the capital project.

This bill forgives the deadline expiration and allows Belleville Henderson School District to continue working on phase two of the capital project as approved by the voters. Additionally, long-term cost savings will be realized by the school district through energy efficiency upgrades that comprise a significant portion of the second phase of the project.

Legislative history

New bill.

Fiscal implications

None to the state.

Effective date

This act shall take effect immediately.

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