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- Recommitted to rules
- Ordered to third reading cal.1358
- Committee discharged and committed to rules
- Reported and committed to finance
- Referred to education
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BILL NUMBER:S6340
Title of bill
An act in relation to legalizing, validating, ratifying and confirming certain acts and proceedings of the Hunter-Tannersville Central School District with respect to certain transportation contracts
Purpose
To allow transportation aid to be paid to the Hunter-Tannersville Central School District despite an error in the required bid opening time period
Summary of provisions
The bill would legalize, validate and ratify a transportation contract entered into by the Hunter-Tannersville Central School District notwithstanding any failure to comply with certain bidding requirements and would direct the state education department (SED) to consider such contracts valid and proper obligations of the Hunter-Tannersville Central School District.
Existing law
Current law requires five days between publication of the advertisement for bids and the opening of the bids.
Justification
The bill permits the Hunter-Tannersville Central School District in Greene County to be receive state aid for certain transportation contracts which the district entered into in 2011. Due to an inadvertent error and the publication of a bid notice one day later than planned, the required five days did not elapse between the first publication of the advertisement for bids and the opening and reading of the bids. Despite the unintentional error, it is important to the district to receive the transportation aid so as to ensure that sufficient funding is available to support the safety and educational needs of the school children of the district. The district should not lose its transportation reimbursement for the contract due to a one-day lapse in the publication of its bid notice.
Legislative history
New bill.
Fiscal implications
Funding is available within the state's transportation categorical aid.
Effective date
Immediate.
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