N.Y. Education Law § 2117: Reports

§ 2117. Reports. 1. The school authorities of each school district

shall make a full report to the commissioner of education upon any

particular matter relating to their schools whenever such report shall

be required by said commissioner.

2. The school authorities of each such school district shall, on the

first day of August in each year, make to the commissioner of education

a report in writing for the year ending June thirtieth preceding. In

districts under the jurisdiction of a district superintendent, such

reports shall be first submitted to the district superintendent, in

duplicate, and he shall approve one copy and file it with the

commissioner of education. Such report shall be in such form as the

commissioner of education shall approve; and every such report shall

certify:

a. The whole time school has been maintained in their district during

the year ending on June thirtieth previous to the date of such report,

and stating what portion of the time such school has been taught by

qualified teachers, and the whole number of days, including holidays, in

which the school was taught by qualified teachers.

b. The amount of their drafts upon the county treasurer, collector or

treasurer of the district for the payment of teachers' salaries during

such year, and the amount of their drafts for the purchase of books and

school apparatus during such year, and the manner in which such moneys

have been expended.

c. The number of children taught in the district during such year by

qualified teachers, and the aggregate days' attendance of all such

children.

d. The number of children residing in their district, from birth and

under eighteen years of age, who shall have been, on the thirtieth day

of August last preceding the date of such report, legal residents of

such district. Children supported at an orphan asylum shall not be

included in such enumeration.

e. The number of vaccinated and unvaccinated children of school age in

their district.

f. The amount of money paid for teachers' salaries, in addition to the

public money paid therefor, the amount of taxes levied in such district

for purchasing school sites, for building, hiring, purchasing, repairing

and insuring schoolhouses, for fuel, for school libraries, or for any

other purpose allowed by law.

g. Such additional information in relation to the schools under their

management and control as the commissioner of education shall require.

3. The commissioner of education shall prepare, based on information

submitted to him by school districts, periodic reports covering new

school buildings giving information about them including but not limited

to the following:

(1) Cost of site.

(2) Cost of site improvement including roads, parking, playfields, and

utility lines to the building wall.

(3) Original furnishings, equipment and apparatus.

(4) Professional fees.

(5) Incidental costs.

(6) Total cost of building.

(7) Cost of building per pupil.

(8) Cost of building per gross square foot.

(9) Cost per gross square foot of the heating and ventilating.

(10) Cost per gross square foot of the plumbing.

(11) Cost per gross square foot of the electrical work.

(12) Square foot per pupil in the total gross area.

(13) Square foot per pupil in the net area of the regular and special

classrooms.

(14) Square foot per pupil in the net area of other rooms used for

educational, health, administrative or social purposes such as the

cafeteria, auditorium, gymnasium, kitchen and library.

(15) Square foot per pupil of the remaining difference between the

gross area and the sum of thirteen and fourteen which would include

toilet rooms, general storage, corridors, stair enclosures, janitor

closets, boiler rooms, building machinery rooms and the area occupied by

the walls of the building.

(16) An outline of the school plan.

(17) A brief outline specification for the building construction.

(18) The name of the architect.

(19) The name of the mechanical engineer.

(20) The name of the structural engineer.

(21) Whether single or multiple bidding was used.