What's happening
This bill legalizes and validates late filings by the Islip Union Free School District for certain capital improvement projects, ensuring eligibility for state aid.
Why it matters
Protects taxpayers from unexpected financial burdens. by ensuring the school district remains eligible for state aid despite administrative errors, preventing local residents from shouldering unplanned costs for completed school projects.
Sets a legislative precedent for handling ministerial mistakes. in school districts, potentially encouraging other districts facing similar technical filing issues to seek legislative remedies rather than penalizing students and taxpayers.
Ensures continued state oversight and accountability. by directing the education department to review and validate the costs, maintaining checks on district spending while allowing for reasonable flexibility in procedural compliance.
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Validate Islip School Projects
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Sponsors
Senator · Senate District 4
1 Co-sponsor
History
- Referred to education
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 61–0
- Advanced to third reading
- 2nd report cal.
- 1st report cal.1447
- Referred to education
- Returned to senate
- Died in assembly
- Referred to education
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 60–0
Show 3 earlier actions
- Ordered to third reading cal.1771
- Committee discharged and committed to rules
- Referred to education
Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
656
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 4, 2017
Introduced by Sen. BOYLE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to validate certain acts of the Islip Union Free school district with regard to certain capital improvement projects
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Legislative intent. The legislature hereby finds that the Islip Union Free school district approved eight capital improvement projects which are designated as project numbers 0003-12, 0011-007, 0011-008, 0003-013, 0007-009, 0007-010, 0007-012, and 0011-009. In addition, the projects were eligible for certain state aid. The legislature further finds that due to ministerial error, the required filing of the final cost reports for such projects were not made by such district in a timely manner making the district ineligible for certain aid. The legislature further finds that without such aid, the capital improvement projects will impose an additional, unanticipated hardship on district taxpayers.
§ 2. All the acts done and proceedings heretofore had and taken or caused to be had or taken by the Islip Union Free school district and by all its officers or agents relating to or in connection with a certain final cost report to be filed with the state education department for project numbers 0003-12, 0011-007, 0011-008, 0003-013, 0007-009, 0007-010, 0007-012, and 0011-009, and all acts incidental thereto are hereby 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 any other statutory authority, rule or regulation, in relation to any omissions, error, defect, irregularity or illegality in such proceedings had and taken, and provided further that any amount due and payable to the Islip Union Free school district for school years prior to the 2015-2016 school year as a result of this act
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shall be paid pursuant to the provisions of paragraph c of subdivision 5 of section 3604 of the education law.
§ 3. The education department is hereby directed to consider the approved costs of the aforementioned projects as valid and proper obligations of the Islip Union Free school district.
§ 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
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Sponsor's memo
Title of bill
An act to validate certain acts of the Islip Union Free school district with regard to certain capital improvement projects
Purpose
Validates certain acts of the Islip Union Free School District with regard to thirteen capital improvement projects and provides for payment of state aid for such projects.
Summary of provisions
Section 1. Finds that thirteen capital improvement projects of the Islip Union Free School District designated as project numbers 0003-12, 0011007, 0011-008, 0003-013, 0007-009, 0007-010, 0007-012, and 0011-009 are approved and eligible for State aid.
Section 2. Finds that all acts taken by Islip Union Free School District and its agents in relation to final cost reports are legalized, validated, ratified, and confirmed, notwithstanding any failure to comply with other required provisions, laws, or regulations. Any amount due and payable to the Islip Union Free School District for school years prior to the 2015-16 school year shall be paid pursuant to the provisions of paragraph c of subdivision 5 of section 3604 of the Education Law.
Section 3. Directs the Education Department to consider the approved costs of the projects as valid and proper obligations of the Islip Union Free School District.
Section 4. Provides that this act shall take effect immediately.
Justification
A delay in the filing of final cost reports related to two capital improvement projects has resulted in penalties to the school. This sum is composed of an assessed take-back on State Building Aid and a penalty based on the late filing. The loss resulting from these take-backs and the penalties assessed demonstrate a substantial burden to the school and its local taxpayers.
Local taxpayers should not be burdened with the significant undue expense as a result of this filing error committed several years ago. Today's Islip residents and the students who attend Islip Union Free School District should not be so severely penalized due to the series of oversights that occurred over the course of several years, many years ago.
This bill would ensure that any amount due and payable to the Islip Union Free School District for previous years shall be paid.
Prior legislative history
04/20/16 REFERRED TO EDUCATION 06/01/16 AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO EDUCATION 06/01/16 PRINT NUMBER 7344A 06/09/16 COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES 06/09/16 ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1641 06/09/16 PASSED SENATE 06/09/16 DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY 06/09/16 referred to ways and means 06/14/16 substituted for a9894a 06/14/16 ordered to third reading rules cal.240 06/14/16 passed assembly 06/14/16 returned to senate 09/20/16 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR 09/29/16 VETOED MEMO.220
Fiscal impact
To be determined.
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