Reports

As you will recall, school districts are now required to append to their proposed budgets a report that lists by category the tax-exempt properties within their boundaries. The tax-exempt report can be obtained from your local assessors. Last year, there were several hiccups in this process. The Office of Real Property Services has proactively contacted all local assessors to help insure the process goes more smoothly this year. Please let NYSASBO know if you run into any problems this year.  read more »

On Wednesday, the State Education Department held a webinar to provide guidance on the requirements that school districts must follow in order to receive all their ARRA stimulus funds for 2009-2010. School districts will be required to submit a supplemental application to be eligible to receive the “spin-up” amount of federal stimulus funds that the Governor and the Legislature transferred from the 2010-2011 budget plan to the current year. Districts will be required to file the supplemental application by next Monday, March 15th.  read more »

The Department has put forms into production to allow districts to enter information required for the Property Tax Report Card and Administrator Salary Disclosure through the State Aid Management System under Official Forms.

Information can be found at:

Property Tax Report Card: http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/mgtserv/PTRC_web/

Administrative Compensation Disclosure: http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/mgtserv/admincomp_web/

Deadlines are posted at http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/mgtserv/budgeting/budget_deadlines_2009.html  read more »

A2190 - through consolidation and elimination, this bill implements the Commissioner of Education's plans to dramatically reduce the number of reports and plans required to be submitted to SED by school districts. STATUS: In Assembly Education Committee

A bill passed during the 2008 legislative session requiring all local governments, including school districts, to include a report of exempt properties to their proposed budgets. This new requirement will apply to 2009-2010 school district budgets. Since other local governments had to comply last Fall, much of the information developed by the Office of Real Property Tax Services (ORPS)  was did not focus on school district issues such as how to handle districts where municipal and school district boundaries are not coterminous.  read more »