N.Y. Education Law § 1102: Powers and duties of vocational education and extension boards

§ 1102. Powers and duties of vocational education and extension

boards. A vocational education and extension board shall, subject to

the provisions of part one of this article, have the following powers

and duties:

1. It may make or cause to be made a survey to determine the career

education and extension needs of the county.

2. It may make and establish and from time to time alter and amend

rules and regulations for the transaction of its business and for the

administration of the work under its charge.

3. It shall have full power and authority to employ supervisors and

teachers and all other persons necessary to carry on career education

and extension work and to determine the salaries to be paid. Members of

the teaching and supervisory staff shall be appointed by a majority vote

of the vocational education and extension board upon recommendation of

the director for a probationary period not to exceed three years except

that no recommendation shall require for the appointment of a director

of career education. Services of members of the teaching and

supervisory staff so employed may be discontinued at any time during the

probationary period, upon the recommendation of the director, by

majority action of such board. On or before the expiration of the

probationary period such board, upon recommendation of the director, may

appoint on tenure those persons who have been found competent, efficient

and satisfactory. Such persons shall hold their respective positions

during good behavior and competent and efficient service and shall not

be removed except for any of the following causes, after a hearing, as

provided by section three thousand twenty-a of this chapter: (a)

insubordination, immoral character or conduct unbecoming a teacher; (b)

inefficiency, incompetency, physical or mental disability or neglect of

duty.

4. It shall make an annual report in writing to the regents of The

University of the State of New York and to the board of supervisors or

other governing elective body on or before the first day of October. It

shall also make such other reports as may be required by the

commissioner of education or by the board of supervisors or other

governing elective body.

5. It may appoint any advisory committees deemed necessary.

6. It shall cooperate with existing public agencies in conducting

career education and extension work in the county.

7. It shall have such other powers and shall perform such other duties

as may be necessary to carry into effect the purposes of part one of

this article.

8. It may request the board of supervisors to contribute the use of or

lease land, buildings and other facilities to it, and to contribute to

the cost of operating and maintaining the program of the county

vocational education and extension board, and a board of supervisors

shall have power to make appropriations toward such cost and to

contribute the use of or lease land, buildings, and other facilities to

it.

9. It shall appoint one of its members as president, one of its

members or another qualified school district voter in the county as

clerk and another qualified school district voter in the county as

treasurer. All moneys accruing or appropriated to the board shall be

paid to the treasurer of the board. The clerk and treasurer may be paid

such compensation as may be fixed by the board. The treasurer shall

furnish a surety bond of a surety company authorized to do business in

the state of New York. The form and amount of such bond shall be

approved by the board and the cost thereof shall be a charge against the

funds of said board.

10. It shall designate a bank or banks for the deposit of money. Such

designation shall be made of a bank within the county unless no bank

exists in the county. It shall notify the treasurer of all bank

designations and require him to deposit all money in such designated

banks. Accruing funds, balances, resources and assets shall become the

property of any succeeding agency or, in the event of termination of the

program of shared services, such accruing funds, balances, resources and

assets shall be prorated among the districts having been served during

the last year of operation and the county in proportion to the amount

which each paid to the vocational education and extension board.

11. All accounting procedures shall be in accordance with regulations

that apply to union free school districts.

12. It shall have the authority to make contracts with the school

authorities of school districts within the county, or without the county

where such contract will result in no additional expense being incurred

by such county, for services to be rendered by it to such school

districts, and such school authorities shall have the authority to enter

into such contracts. Payments shall be made by the school districts at

least as often as quarterly. Any amount so paid to the board by a school

district shall not be included in computing the apportionment of state

aid to such district.

13. It may transport pupils under twenty-one years of age to and from

schools and classes maintained by such vocational education and

extension board for instruction in career education. In providing such

transportation, the board may transport pupils residing outside the

county who are attending such schools and classes maintained by such

board pursuant to subdivision twelve of this section.

14. It may purchase and maintain a motor vehicle or vehicles to be

used for the transportation of school children under twenty-one years of

age to schools and classes maintained by the county vocational education

and extension board. Such motor vehicle or vehicles may be leased to a

school district when not needed for such transportation. When such

motor vehicle shall be leased as provided in this subdivision, public

liability and property damage insurance, fire insurance and compensation

insurance of drivers shall be provided in the amount stated in section

thirty-six hundred twenty-seven of this chapter and collision insurance

shall be provided in the amount of value of the vehicle to protect the

lessor. No part of the cost and expenses resulting from operation,

maintenance and repair of such vehicles during the leasing thereof shall

be included in determining the amount of any form of state aid received

by such county vocational education and extension board.

15. It may lease land, buildings, and other facilities as may be

necessary to carry into effect the purposes of part one of this article.