What's happening
This bill allows school districts to receive BOCES aid for equipment purchases if they demonstrate greater cost-effectiveness than purchasing without aid.
Why it matters
Encourages districts to seek cost savings. By requiring proof of greater cost-effectiveness for equipment purchases made with BOCES aid, the bill incentivizes districts to carefully evaluate and justify their spending, potentially leading to smarter use of taxpayer funds.
Expands eligible purchases for aid. The language specifically broadens what can be considered for BOCES aid reimbursement, including furniture, bulletin boards, instructional materials, and classroom aids—items that may not have been previously eligible, thus increasing flexibility for schools.
May impact procurement strategies. Districts could shift their purchasing practices, favoring BOCES-aided purchases when they can demonstrate savings, which could centralize or standardize procurement and affect relationships with vendors.
Requires new oversight and standards. The bill mandates that the State Education Commissioner create new rules and standards, which means districts and BOCES will have to adapt to new administrative procedures and reporting requirements.
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Allow BOCES Aid for Equipment
In Senate Committee · Education · Sponsor Phil Boyle
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STATE OF NEW YORK
2191
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 17, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. PEOPLES-STOKES -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the cost effectiveness of tangible equipment
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Paragraph d of subdivision 4 of section 1950 of the education law is amended by adding a new subparagraph 6 to read as follows:
(6) Cost effectiveness of tangible equipment. Notwithstanding any other provision of this section to the contrary, expenditures incurred by component school districts in compliance with the general municipal law, pursuant to purchase and/or installation contracts entered into on or after January fifteenth, two thousand, for equipment including but not limited to furniture, bulletin boards, tangible instructional materials and classroom aids, shall be an acceptable expense for BOCES aid if the component school district demonstrates the purchase would be more cost-effective than would otherwise be possible if such services were to be purchased without the consideration of BOCES aid.
§ 2. The commissioner shall promulgate rules, regulations and standards to implement the provisions of this act.
§ 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05402-01-7
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