2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 51 - City School Districts of Cities With Less Than One Hundred Twenty-Five Thousand Inhabitants › 2512 - Buildings and Sites.

§ 2512. Buildings  and sites. 1. Such board of education is authorized
  and it shall  have  power  to  designate  sites,  to  purchase,  repair,
  reconstruct,  improve  or enlarge school buildings or other buildings or
  sites, and to construct  new  buildings,  provided  that  the  purchase,
  repair,  reconstruction,  improvement or enlargement of school buildings
  or other buildings or sites, and construction of new buildings shall  be
  subject  to voter approval, to the same extent as in a union free school
  district.
2. Whenever in the judgment of such board of education it is necessary
  to select a new site, or to enlarge a present site, or  to  designate  a
  playground  or  recreation  center, or to acquire title to or lease real
  property for other educational purposes authorized by this chapter, such
  board may take options on  property  desirable  for  such  purposes  but
  before  taking  title  thereto  shall  pass  a  resolution  stating  the
  necessity therefor, describing by metes and bounds or by lot number  the
  grounds  or  territory desired for each of such purposes, and estimating
  the amount of funds necessary therefor.
3. Whenever in the judgment of such board of education  the  needs  of
  the  district  require  a  new  building  for  school  purposes  or  for
  recreation or other educational purposes authorized by this chapter,  or
  when  in  its  judgment  a building should be reconstructed or enlarged,
  such board shall pass a resolution specifying in  detail  the  necessity
  therefor and estimating the amount of funds necessary for such purpose.
4.  No site shall be designated except upon a majority vote of a board
  of education  and  no  building  shall  be  constructed,  reconstructed,
  repaired  or  enlarged  until  the plans and specifications therefor are
  approved by the board of education and,  in  city  school  districts  of
  cities  having  a population of less than seventy thousand, according to
  the latest federal census, by the commissioner of education pursuant  to
  section four hundred eight of this chapter.
5.  When  the real property of the school district is no longer needed
  for educational purposes,  such  board  may  sell  or  dispose  of  such
  property,  subject  to voter approval, and the proceeds thereof shall be
  credited to the funds under the control and administration of the  board
  of education.
6.  The board of education of any city school district of a city which
  has a  planning  commission,  by  whatever  name  known,  shall,  before
  designating  a  site  or  sites, submit the proposed designation to such
  city planning commission. Such commission shall make its  recommendation
  to  such  board  within sixty days from the date of such submission. The
  board of education may not designate a site or sites  contrary  to  such
  recommendation,  except  after  a  public  hearing  and  by  a  vote  of
  two-thirds of its voting strength. The notice for such hearing shall  be
  published  at  least once in each week for the four weeks preceding such
  hearing, in a newspaper, or two newspapers if there  be  two,  having  a
  general  circulation,  in  such city school district. If such commission
  fails to make any recommendation prior to the expiration of  such  sixty
  days,  the  board  of  education  may  proceed to designate such site or
  sites. This subdivision shall not apply to the designation of a site  or
  sites  by  such board of education where such site is located inside the
  city school district, but outside the boundaries of the city.
7. a. To enter into a lease, sublease  or  other  agreement  with  the
  dormitory authority providing for the financing or refinancing of all or
  a  portion  of  school  district  capital  facilities or school district
  capital equipment in accordance with section sixteen hundred  eighty  of
  the  public  authorities  law and with the approval of the commissioner.
  Such lease, sublease, or other agreement may provide for the payment  of
  annual  or  other  payments to the dormitory authority, and contain such

  other terms and conditions as may be agreed upon by the parties thereto,
  including the  establishment  of  reserve  funds  and  indemnities.  For
  purposes  of  this  subdivision, school district capital equipment shall
  have the meaning ascribed thereto in section sixteen hundred seventy-six
  of the public authorities law.
b.  Notwithstanding  any  provisions  of  law  to  the  contrary,  the
  dormitory authority and the board of education are hereby authorized and
  empowered to perform any and all acts and to  enter  into  any  and  all
  agreements  necessary  or  desirable  to effectuate the purposes of this
  subdivision.