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CONTINGENCY BUDGET

            In the event the voters reject the proposed budget, the Board of Education may resubmit the original or a revised budget to the voters for approval, establish a contingency or austerity budget and levy a tax for its implementation, or take any of the other options permitted under the law.  In the event the original or revised budget is resubmitted and defeated, the Board may take any of the options permitted under the law.

            A contingency budget will provide for all necessary teaching personnel and other ordinary contingent expenses, which, while not limited to, may include the following:

1.         instructional supplies for teachers;

2.         salaries for essential non-instructional personnel;

3.         fuel, water, light and power;

4.         emergency repairs of school property;
5.         necessary travel expenses of school officials and employees on     
            official business;

6.         maintenance of sanitary facilities;

7.         option on land for a proposed school site;

8.         expenditures for legal services;

9.         expenditures for advising voters concerning school matters;

10.       telephone; and
11.       rental of temporary facilities as requisite classrooms to alleviate    
            overcrowding.

Before implementing the contingency budget, the Board shall refer it to the school attorney for review.

Ref:     Education Law §§1609; 1709(16); 2021; 2022; 2023; 2024

            Formal Opinion of Counsel No. 213 (1967)

            Formal Opinion of Counsel No. 226 (1967)

            Brown v. Whitesboro Central School District, 88 AD2d 184 (1982)

            Reiss v. Abramowitz, 39 AD2d 916 (1972)

            Matter of Wozniak, 21 EDR 297 (1981)

            Matter of Peru Central School District, 24 EDR 23 (1984)

Adoption date:  January 1, 1993

Reviewed on:    September 29, 2003