What's happening
This bill prohibits Yonkers city employees and certain public benefit corporation employees from serving on the city’s Board of Education and requires board appointments to reflect the city's gender and ethnic diversity.
Why it matters
Reduces potential conflicts of interest. by preventing city employees and employees of city-funded public benefit corporations from serving on the Yonkers Board of Education, helping ensure that board decisions are made independently of city administrative influence.
Aims to increase community trust and transparency. in the governance of public schools by explicitly separating those who oversee the school system from those who may be subject to direction or employment by the city or its subsidiaries.
Promotes broader and more equitable representation. by requiring that mayoral appointments to the school board reflect Yonkers’ gender and ethnic diversity, which could lead to policies and decisions that are more responsive to the city’s varied communities.
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STATE OF NEW YORK
788
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 9, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the appointment of the members of the board of education of the city school district of the city of Yonkers
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 2553 of the education law, as added by chapter 242 of the laws of 1974, is amended to read as follows:
3. In the city school district of the city of Yonkers members of the board of education shall be appointed from the city at large by the mayor and shall be for terms of five years each, to begin on the first Tuesday in May. Provided that no person who is an officer or employee, in a paid capacity and regardless of whether such position is on a fulltime or part-time basis, of the city of Yonkers or any public benefit corporation which is funded directly or through subcontract by the monies of or contributions from such city, shall be eligible to serve as a member of the board of education of the city school district of the city of Yonkers. The mayor shall make appointments of such members to reflect the diversity, in gender and ethnic heritage, of the city of Yonkers.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to appointments to fill vacancies on the board of education of the city school district of the city of Yonkers on or after such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04457-01-7
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