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Annual

tax.

Funds to

be paid city treas

urer.

statement, with his objections thereto, to the board of education, within two days after its submission, said statement shall be filed with the city clerk in the same manner as if it had been approved. When such statement is filed with the city clerk, the common council of said city shall include the amount therein called for in the annual tax and assessment-roll for that year, and the amount so certified shall be collected and paid to the city treasurer, who will credit it to the general school fund of the board of education. All public moneys or public funds belonging or appropriated to the use of said district shall be paid to the treasurer of said city, who shall keep the same separate from the general funds of the city, and shall credit to the school fund the moneys or property belonging thereto. The board of education shall disburse all the funds of said district by orders upon the treasurer, signed by its clerk and countersigned by its president. Said orders shall be numbered consecutively, and shall specify the purposes for which they are drawn and the person to whom payable. Upon the request from said board the treasurer shall certify, from time to time, the balance remaining to Not to be the credit of said school fund. Whenever any moneys are collected by or paid to the city treasurer for school purposes, it shall not be lawful for said treasurer to apply such money, or any part thereof, to any other purpose or object.

Disbursement of same.

diverted.

Purchase of § 229(k). When the board of education shall determine by a

sites. etc.,

resolution for, etc.

Submission to electors.

resolution that it is necessary to purchase any site or addition to any site, or erect any school building, or enlarge any school building already erected, it shall specify in such resolution the ward within which such site is to be purchased or building erected or enlarged, and the particular sum required for each separately. The board shall then deliver a certified copy of such resolution to the city clerk, notifying him that at the next subsequent election in said city the electors will be called upon to vote for or against such tax as the proposed expenditure will impose; and said city clerk shall embody such resolution in the notice of election that he is required by law to give of the next general city election. The board of education shall provide, and deliver to the Ballots and city clerk at the proper time, sufficient printed ballots for the use of the electors, which shall be indorsed "school tax," and shall be deposited in a separate ballot-box provided therefor and marked "school tax." Upon the inside of such ballots shall be printed

ballot

boxes.

votes.

row money

able vote.

bonds.

the several items or objects to be voted for, with the words "for" and "against" at the beginning of each item. Each elector shall indicate his vote as to each of said items by erasing or drawing a mark through the one or the other of said words "for" or "against." The inspectors shall canvass the said votes, and Canvass of make a statement thereof in respect to each item voted upon, and immediately file the same with the clerk of the board of education. Within three days following such election the board of education shall convene at its usual place of meeting, at halfpast seven o'clock in the evening, and the statement from each polling place shall be produced, and the board shall forthwith declare and make a certificate in writing of the result. In case a majority of the votes cast be in favor of any said taxes, the board of education shall have authority to borrow, upon the May bor faith and credit of said city, the aggregate of the items having upon favor such majority, or any part thereof, at any time before and until the same can be provided for according to law. In case the sum or sums so authorized to be raised shall exceed the sum of five thousand dollars, the board of education shall issue bonds or Issue of other evidence of indebtedness in such form as it may prescribe for the amount exceeding such sum of five thousand dollars, at a rate of interest not exceeding six per centum per annum, and payable at the rate of five thousand dollars per year. Said bonds, or any part thereof, may be sold by the said board of education in such manner as it may deem best, but at not less than the par value thereof. The board of education shall, on or before the first day of May in each year, file with the city clerk a state-Statement ment of the amount necessary to be raised to pay the interest for interest and principal that will become due during the ensuing year upon cipal. the bonds or obligations so issued by said board, and the common council shall include the same in the annual city tax and assessment-roll for that year. Such amount shall be collected and paid to the city treasurer, and by him credited to the "loan fund." The common council, upon receiving the certificate of the result Tax for of any such election from the board of education, at which any voted. money was voted to be raised, shall include five thousand dollars of the amount so authorized to be raised, or any less sum which may have been so authorized, in the next levy and assessmentroll for the collection of taxes in said city, except that whenever Exception. any such election may have been held, and money voted to be

of amount

and prin

amount

raised, there shall be outstanding and unpaid any bonds or evidences of indebtedness issued in accordance with the provisions of this section, the board of education shall borrow, in the same manner herein before provided, the whole amount voted at such election, but no bonds or other obligations shall be made to mature at such a time as will make the amount to be raised by tax for this purpose, in any one year, exceed five thousand dollars of principal and the interest on all such bonds or obligations remaining unpaid. This shall not be construed to affect any obligation made prior to the passage of this act. The board of education, after completing the work or other objects for which Unexpend the said money may have been raised, may apply any unexpended balance that may remain to any object authorized or contemplated by this section.

ed balances, how applied.

Annual report of board.

Apportion. ment of state moneys for use of board.

§ 229(1). It shall be the duty of the board of education, at least thirty days before the annual city election for city officers in each year, to make to the mayor and common council of the city a detailed report of the manner in which it shall have expended the money provided for and appropriated to school purposes from any sources during the last fiscal year of the board of education, also a full statement of the bonded or other indebtedness of the district, and such report shall be published by the common council in connection with, and as a part of, the annual report of the financial transactions of the city which they are required by law to have printed and circulated. Said board of education shall also make report to the superintendent of public instruction of the state, and such reports shall be made in the manner and at such times as he may direct.

§ 229(m). It shall be the duty of the superintendent of public instruction of this state to apportion for the use of the said board board of education of the city of Mount Vernon such portion of the school, library and other public money as it shall be entitled to by its annual report, in the same manner in which such moneys are apportioned to cities, and the amounts to which it shall be so entitled shall be certified to the county treasurer of Westchester county. The said county treasurer of Westchester county shall pay over to the treasurer of the city of Mount Vernon, for the use of the board of education of said city, such proportion of the school, library and other public money as may be appor tioned by law or by the superintendent of public instruction of

the state to the board of education of the city of Mount Vernon, for teachers' wages, library and other school purposes.

for protec

perty, etc.

§ 229(n). The common council of the city of Mount Vernon shall Ordinances have the power, and it shall be its duty, to pass such ordinances tion of proand by-laws as the board of education of said city shall report as necessary for the protection, safe-keeping, care and preservation. of the school buildings and other school property of said district, and to impose such penalties for the violation of the same as it shall deem proper.

against

of board.

§229(0). Charges of misconduct or violation or neglect of duty, Charges on the part of any member of the board of education, may be members presented to said board, by any member thereof, or by any elector of Mount Vernon, and such charges shall be duly examined by said board, at a regular or special meeting, of which the accused member shall have at least, five days notice, but at which meeting said accused member shall not be entitled to vote. If at such meeting, after hearing the evidence on both sides, said board shall deem the charges against the member sustained, then all the papers and documents in the case, with a transcript of the proceedings of the meeting, shall be transmitted by the clerk of the board of education to the superintendent of public instruction of the state, and, upon his approval of the findings of the board, the accused member shall be removed and his place deemed vacant. All vacancies in the board of education, occasioned by Vacancies the resignation, refusal to serve, death or removal of any of its members, shall be filled by appointment by said board until the next regular school election, when the residue of the term, if any, shall be filled by election, as hereinbefore prescribed.

in office.

tendent of

§ 229(p). The superintendent of instruction of the city of Mount Superin. Vernon shall confer with and act under the direction of the instruction. board of education of said city in performing the duties of his office. He shall, subject to the direction of said board, have general control and supervision of the public schools, and the teachers thereof, in said city, and shall, on or before the ûfteenth day in April in each year, report in writing to the board of edu- Annual cation as follows:

1. The whole number of schools within the jurisdiction of the board of education, and their sanitary condition.

2. The repairs or alterations, if any, that are necessary for such schools.

report of superintendent.

Union free school dis

trict.

Transfer of tax leases,

3. The condition of the school furniture, apparatus and books, in the several schools, and the repairs or additions thereto that may be necessary.

4. The number of teachers employed in the several schools. and their efficiency, with suggestions as to the increase or decrease in the number thereof.

5. The number of pupils registered at each school, and the aver age daily attendance.

6. Such changes in the curriculum of any or all of the schools as he may deem advisable.

7. As to the condition and management of the high school, if one shall have been established.

8. Such other information in relation to the city schools as may be of interest to the people of Mount Vernon.

§ 229(q). The said consolidated district shall be deemed and is hereby declared to be a union free school district under the laws of this state relating to public instruction. All provisions of law, not inconsistent with the provisions of this act, applicable to school districts whose limits correspond with any incorporated city, and the boards of education therein, and the corporate authority of such cities, are made applicable to the school district hereby consolidated and established, and to the board of education thereof, and to the corporate authorities of the city of Mount Vernon.

§ 229(r). It shall be the duty of the supervisor and town clerk etc., to city of the town of Eastchester forthwith after the passage of this act to sell, assign and transfer to the city of Mount Vernon, for a nominal consideration, all tax leases and certificates of sale now held by said town for non-payment of any school taxes, affecting any lot, piece or parcel of land within the corporate limits of said city upon payment by said city to said supervisor for the benefit of said town of the actual expenses incurred by said town in publishing notice of such sales; and for making, executing and delivering to the said city the assignment of such tax leases and certificates the town clerk shall be entitled to demand and receive from the said city, as compensation for his services in lieu of all Indebted fees, the sum of fifty ($50) dollars. In making the property adjust to outside ment with the several school districts of the town of Eastchester, portions of whose limits are without the said city, as hereinbefore provided for, the said city shall be deemed indebted to

ness of city

districts.

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