2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 41 - District Meetings › Part 1 - General Provisions › 2021 - Powers of Voters.

§ 2021. Powers  of voters. The inhabitants entitled to vote, when duly
  assembled in any district meeting, shall have power, by  a  majority  of
  the votes of those present and voting:
1. In common school districts, to appoint a chairman.
2. To appoint a clerk for the time if the district clerk is absent.
3.  To  adjourn from time to time as occasion may require, except that
  where a special district meeting shall have been called by  a  board  of
  education  for the purpose of voting upon an appropriation and the hours
  of voting shall have been fixed by the board as provided in  subdivision
  three of section four hundred sixteen of this chapter, the meeting shall
  not  be  adjourned  until  after  the  vote  shall  have  been taken and
  canvassed upon the proposition submitted.
4. To elect one or three  trustees  as  provided  in  section  sixteen
  hundred two and a district collector, and in any district which shall so
  determine, as hereinafter provided, to elect a treasurer, at their first
  meeting,  and  so  often  as such offices or any of them become vacated,
  except as hereinafter provided.
5. To adopt by a vote of a majority of such voters present and  voting
  at  the  first  meeting,  or at any subsequent annual meeting, or at any
  special  meeting  duly  called  for  that  purpose,  such  vote  to   be
  ascertained  by  taking and recording the ayes and noes, a resolution to
  elect a treasurer of said district. If such resolution shall be adopted,
  such voters shall  thereupon  elect  by  ballot  a  treasurer  for  said
  district.  Any  person  elected  treasurer  at any meeting other than an
  annual meeting, shall hold office until the next  annual  meeting  after
  such  election,  and  until his successor shall be elected or appointed,
  and thereafter a treasurer shall be elected at each annual  meeting  for
  the term of one year.
6.  To  fix the amount in which the collector and treasurer shall give
  bonds for the due and  faithful  performance  of  the  duties  of  their
  offices.
7.  To  designate  a site for a schoolhouse, or for grounds to be used
  for playgrounds, or for agricultural, athletic center and social  center
  purposes, or, with the consent of the district superintendent of schools
  within  whose  district the school district lies, to designate sites for
  two or more schoolhouses for the district. Such designation  of  a  site
  for  a  schoolhouse,  or for such grounds, can be made only at a special
  meeting of the district, duly called  for  such  purpose  by  a  written
  resolution  in  which  the proposed site shall be described by metes and
  bounds, and which resolution must receive the assent of  a  majority  of
  the qualified voters present and voting, to be ascertained by taking and
  recording the ayes and noes, or by ballot.
8.  To  vote  a  tax  upon  the  taxable  property of the district, to
  purchase, lease and improve such sites or an addition to such sites  and
  grounds for the purposes specified in the preceding subdivision, to hire
  or  purchase  rooms or buildings for school rooms or schoolhouses, or to
  build schoolhouses;  to  keep  in  repair  and  furnish  the  same  with
  necessary  fuel,  furniture  and  appurtenances,  and  to  purchase such
  implements, apparatus and  supplies  as  may  be  necessary  to  provide
  instruction  in agriculture and other subjects, and for the organization
  and conduct of athletic, playground and other social center work.
9. To designate any former schoolhouse and appurtenances, or any  part
  thereof,  the title to which is vested in the board, as a public library
  building, and to vote a tax on the taxable  property  of  the  district,
  pursuant  to  section two hundred fifty-five of this chapter, to pay the
  cost of necessary alterations and equipment to convert such  schoolhouse
  or part thereof to library use.
10.  To vote a tax, not exceeding twenty-five dollars in any one year,
  for the purchase of maps, globes, reproductions  of  standard  works  of
  art,  blackboards  and  other  school apparatus, and for the purchase of
  text-books and other school necessaries for the use of needy  pupils  of
  the district.
11.  To  vote  a tax for the establishment of a school library and the
  maintenance thereof, or for the support of any  school  library  already
  owned by said district, and for the purchase of books therefor, and such
  sum  as  they  may  deem  necessary  for  the  purchase of a bookcase or
  bookcases.
12. To vote a tax to supply a deficiency in  any  former  tax  arising
  from such tax being, in whole or in part, uncollectible.
13.  To  authorize  the  trustees to cause the schoolhouses, and their
  furniture, appurtenances and school  apparatus  to  be  insured  by  any
  insurance  company  created  by  or under the laws of this state, or any
  other insurance company authorized by law to transact business  in  this
  state.
14.  To alter, repeal and modify their proceedings, from time to time,
  as occasion may require.
15. To vote a tax for the purchase  of  a  book  for  the  purpose  of
  recording their proceedings.
16. To vote a tax to replace moneys of the district, lost or embezzled
  by  district  officers;  and  to pay the reasonable expenses incurred by
  district officers in defending suits or appeals brought against them for
  their official acts, or in prosecuting suits or appeals by direction  of
  the district against other parties.
17. To vote a tax to pay whatever deficiency there may be in teachers'
  salaries  after  the public money apportioned to the district shall have
  been applied thereto.
18. To vote a tax to pay and satisfy of  record  any  judgments  of  a
  competent court which may have been or shall hereafter be obtained in an
  action  against  the  trustees  of  the  district  for  unpaid teachers'
  salaries, where the time  to  appeal  from  said  judgments  shall  have
  lapsed,  or  there  shall  be  no  intent  to appeal on the part of such
  district, or the said judgments are or shall be of  the  court  of  last
  resort.
19.  To  provide,  by  tax  or otherwise, for the conveyance of pupils
  residing in a school district, (a) to the elementary or high schools, or
  both, maintained in such district and/or (b) to the elementary  or  high
  schools,  or  both,  in  any  city  or  district with which an education
  contract shall have been made, and/or (c)  to  the  elementary  or  high
  schools,  or both, other than public, situated within the district or an
  adjacent district or city, whenever such district shall have  contracted
  with  the  school  authorities  of  any  city,  or  with  another school
  district, for the education therein  of  the  pupils  residing  in  such
  school district, or whenever in any school district pupils of school age
  shall reside so remote from the schoolhouse therein or the elementary or
  high  school  they  legally attend, within or without the district, that
  they are practically deprived of school advantages during any portion of
  the school year.
20. To authorize the trustees or board of education, with the  consent
  of  the  commissioner  of transportation, to furnish lighting facilities
  and janitorial care for  any  highway  underpass  located  within  their
  distrct  and  supervision  thereof  during  the time the same is used by
  pupils in arriving at or leaving  the  school  premises,  whenever  such
  highway  underpass has been constructed by the state and the use thereof
  is essential for the safety of pupils.
21. To vote a tax to provide funds  which  may  be  utilized  to  meet
  expenses  during  the  first  one hundred twenty days of the fiscal year
  following the fiscal year in which such tax is collected.