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- Referred to education
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Provides for the repayment by the Schenectady city school district of certain excess state payments
In Assembly Committee · Education · Sponsor George Amedore
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BILL NUMBER:S5390
Title of bill
An act to provide for the repayment by the Schenectady city school district of certain excess state payments
Purpose
To allow the Schenectady City School District to spread out repayment of excess state aid over three years.
Summary of provisions
Section 1 of the bill provides that excess aid paid to the Schenectady City School District in the 2003-04 through 2008-09 school years, of which the District has been notified and for which the State must make a recovery through deductions of future aid payments, shall be recovered by reducing the amount of future State aid payments by one-third of the amount of such excess payments in the aid payments for June of 2011, 2012 and 2013.
Justification
In 2008, the State Education Department identified an error in a legal notice published several years earlier by the Schenectady City School District in relation to certain transportation services for the 2003-04 school year. Because of this error, the Department indicated that the expected state transportation aid could not be paid for these two contracts which covered the 2003-04 school year. The situation worsened when the Education Department also indicated that the District could not be reimbursed for transportation expenses incurred in connection with the extension of those contracts covering school years from 2004-05 through 2008-09. Because the School District was unaware that there was a problem with the original contracts, it had extended the contracts several times. Because of the delay in identifying the original error, the potential financial ramifications of this error increased dramatically.
The District now must pay back a total of $3,860,466. The Department of Education is currently requiring that this money be paid back in two installments. $2,956,669 is to be deducted from the June 2011 General Aid payment and $903,797 from the June 2012 General Aid payment. This creates a hardship for the District. This legislation would allow the District to make the repayments to the State in three equal payments to be deducted from the General Aid payments in June of 2011, 2012 and 2013.
Legislative history
New bill.
Fiscal implications
Minimal to State. Provides fiscal relief to the School District.
Effective date
This act shall take effect immediately.
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