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Senate Bill S5754

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Relates to the governance of the school districts in the city of New York; repealer

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2009-S5754 (ACTIVE) - Details

Law Section:
New York City Charter
Laws Affected:
Amd §2800, NYC Chart; rpld §2590-a sub 4, §2590-c, §2590-h sub 33, §2590-q, §2590-b sub 2, amd §§2590-a, 2590-b, 2590-d, 2590-g, 2590-h, 2590-p & 211-d, Ed L

2009-S5754 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the governance of the school districts in the city of New York.

2009-S5754 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S5754 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  5754

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              June 3, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  KLEIN  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Cities

AN ACT to amend the New York city charter  and  the  education  law,  in
  relation  to  mayoral  control  of  the  city's schools; and to repeal
  certain provisions of the education law relating thereto

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Subdivisions  a, b, i and paragraph 6 of subdivision d of
section 2800 of the New York city charter, subdivisions a, b  and  i  as
added  by  a  vote  of the people of the city of New York at the general
election held in November of 1989,  paragraph  6  of  subdivision  d  as
amended  by  local  law  number 102 of the city of New York for the year
1977, are amended and subdivision d is amended by adding a new paragraph
17-a to read as follows:
  a. For each community district created pursuant to chapter  sixty-nine
there  shall  be  a  community board which shall consist of (1) not more
than fifty persons appointed by  the  borough  president  for  staggered
terms  of  two  years, at least one-half of whom shall be appointed from
nominees of the council members elected  from  council  districts  which
include  any  part  of  the community district, and (2) all such council
members as non-voting members. The number of members  appointed  on  the
nomination  of  each  such  council  member shall be proportional to the
share of the district population represented by such council member. The
city planning commission, after each council redistricting  pursuant  to
chapter  two-A,  and  after  each  community  redistricting  pursuant to
section twenty-seven hundred two, shall determine the proportion of  the
community  district's  population  represented  by  each council member.
Copies of such  determinations  shall  be  filed  with  the  appropriate
borough  president, community board, and council member. One-half of the
members appointed to any community board shall serve for a term  of  two
years  beginning  on the first day of April in each odd-numbered year in

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD14091-04-9
              

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