BILL NUMBER:A10434
TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the education law, in relation to
providing the Yonkers city school district with additional supplemental
education improvement plan funds
PURPOSE: To provide the Yonkers City School District with additional
Supplemental Improvement Plan funds totaling the percentage enrollment
growth multiplied by the District's Foundation Aid in the base year.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: This bill would provide the Yonkers City School
District with additional Supplemental Improvement Plan funds by provid-
ing for additional aid totaling the percentage increase in enrollment in
2009-2010 multiplied by the District's total Foundation Aid.
JUSTIFICATION: The Yonkers City School District has experienced signif-
icant enrollment increases in the 2009-2010 school year. The State's
freeze in Foundation Aid funding does not account for this growth there-
by placing the District in the unfortunate position of having to educate
more pupils with no additional money from the State. This bill would
recognize the increase of 554 pupils, a 2.37% increase, and provide
$3.98 million in additional funds for the District.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: None.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS: $3.98 million for the State.
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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10434
I N A S S E M B L Y
March 25, 2010
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Introduced by M. of A. SPANO -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to providing the Yonkers
city school district with additional supplemental education improve-
ment plan funds
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Paragraph b of subdivision 8 of section 3641 of the educa-
tion law, as amended by section 29 of part B of chapter 57 of the laws
of 2008, is amended to read as follows:
b. To the Yonkers city school district there shall be paid seventeen
million five hundred thousand dollars ($17,500,000) on an annual basis
PLUS AN AMOUNT EQUIVALENT TO THE PERCENTAGE INCREASE, CARRIED TO FOUR
DECIMALS, IN THE YONKERS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT PUBLIC ENROLLMENT PURSUANT
TO FOUNDATION AID UNDER SUBDIVISION FOUR OF SECTION THIRTY-SIX HUNDRED
TWO OF THIS ARTICLE FROM THE TWO THOUSAND EIGHT--TWO THOUSAND NINE
SCHOOL YEAR TO THE TWO THOUSAND NINE--TWO THOUSAND TEN SCHOOL YEAR
MULTIPLIED BY THE DISTRICT'S FOUNDATION AID AMOUNT. SUCH INCREASE SHALL
NOT BE SUBJECT TO SECTION TWO HUNDRED ELEVEN-D OF THIS CHAPTER. Such
grant shall be payable from funds appropriated for such purpose and
shall be apportioned to the Yonkers city school district in accordance
with the payment schedules contained in section thirty-six hundred
nine-a of this article, notwithstanding any provision of law to the
contrary.
S 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2010.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD16430-01-0
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