What's happening
This bill bars city employees and certain public corporation workers from serving on Yonkers’ school board and requires diversity in board appointments.
Why it matters
Reduces potential conflicts of interest. by prohibiting city employees and workers from certain city-funded public corporations from serving on the Yonkers school board, helping to ensure board members are independent from city government influence.
Promotes broader community representation. by requiring the mayor’s school board appointments to reflect Yonkers’ diversity in both gender and ethnic heritage, which could help the board better understand and address the needs of the city’s varied student population.
Applies immediately to new appointments. , meaning any vacancies filled after the law takes effect must comply with these new eligibility and diversity requirements, potentially leading to immediate changes in board composition and decision-making.
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Who cares
Yonkers mayor
The bill would restrict eligibility for school board appointments and require appointments to reflect the city's gender and ethnic diversity.
Paid Yonkers officers and employees
Full-time and part-time city personnel would be ineligible for school board appointments covered by the bill.
Paid officers and employees of city-funded public benefit corporations
The eligibility ban would also cover those working for corporations funded by Yonkers directly or through subcontract.
Yonkers Board of Education
The new appointment rules would apply to vacancies filled on or after the bill's immediate effective date.
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Bar Yonkers Employees from Board
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Sponsors
No co-sponsors yet.
History
- Referred to education
- Referred to education
Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
3255
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 29, 2019
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.
LBD04351-01-9
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