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.
Last modified: February 3, 2019