The Oneida Daily Dispatch, LEGAL NOTICE BUDGET VOTE AND BOARD ELECTION ONEIDA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a public Budget Hearing of the qualified voters of the Oneida City School District, Madison County, New York will be held in the City of Oneida, New York, in said District on Tuesday, May 12, 2015, at 7:00 P.M. prevailing time for the transaction of business as authorized by the Education Law, including the following items: 1. To receive such reports of the officials of the School District as shall be submitted. 2. To discuss all the items hereinafter set forth to be voted upon by voting machines at the vote and election to be held on May 19, 2015. 3. To transact such other business as may properly come before the meeting pursuant to Education Law of the State of New York and acts amendatory thereto. AND FUTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that said vote and election will be held on May 19, 2015 between the hours of 12 Noon and 9:00 P.M., prevailing time, in the Oneida High School, and Durhamville Elementary School, for qualified voters living in appropriate election districts, at which time the polls will be opened to vote by voting machine upon the following items: 1. To elect one (1) members of the Board of Education for a five-year term commencing July 1, 2015, and expiring on June 30, 2020. 2. The propositions specifically set forth below. AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a copy of the statement of the amount of money which will be required to fund the School District’s budget for 2015-2016 may be obtained by a resident of the District during business hours beginning April 28, 2015, except Saturday, Sunday or holidays, at the District Office, 565 Sayles Street, Oneida, New York, and at each of the following schoolhouses: Durhamville Elementary School, North Broad Street School, Seneca Street School, Willard Prior Elementary School, Otto Shortell Middle School, Oneida Senior High School. AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that petitions nominating candidates for the office of members of the Board of Education shall be filed with the Clerk of said School District at his/her office in the District Office, 565 Sayles Street, Oneida, New York, not later than April 28, 2015, between 8:00 A.M. and 4:00 P.M. Vacancies on the Board of Education are not considered separate, specific offices; candidates run at large. Nominating petitions shall not specify any specific vacancy upon the Board for which the candidate is nominated; must be directed to the Clerk of the Board; must be signed by at least 100 qualified voters of the District; must state the name and residence of each signature, and, must state the name and residence of the candidate. Such nomination petitions are available at the Distric Office, 565 Sayles Street, Oneida, New York. The Clerk will conduct a draw for ballot order on April 29, 2015 at 12 Noon, to determine the order of listing of names of the candidates on the voting machines for said election. AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that applications for absentee ballots will be obtainable during school business hours from the Clerk of the Board beginning March 27, 2015; completed applications must be received by the District Clerk at least seven (7) days before the election if the ballot is to be mailed to the voter, or the day before the election, if the ballot is to be delivered personally to the voter. Absentee ballots must be received by the District Clerk not later than 4:00 P.M., prevailing time, on May 19, 2015. AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that personal registration of voters is required either pursuant to §2014 of the Education Law or pursuant to Article 5 of the Election Law. If a voter has heretofore registered pursuant to §2014 of the Education Law and has voted at an annual or special district meeting within the last four (4) calendar years, he or she is eligible to vote at this election; if a voter is registered and eligible to vote under Article 5 of the Election Law, he or she is also eligible to vote at this election. All other persons who wish to vote must register. The register so prepared pursuant to §2014 of the Education Law will be filed in the Office of the Clerk of the School District in the District Office, 565 Sayles Street, Oneida, New York and will be open for inspection by any qualified voter of the District beginning on May 13, 2015, between the hours of 9:00 A.M. and 4:00 P.M., prevailing time, on weekdays, and each day prior to the day set for the election, except Saturday and Sunday, and at the polling place(s) on the day of the vote. AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that pursuant to a rule adopted by the Board of Education in accordance with §2305 of the Education law, any referenda or propositions to amend the budget, or otherwise to be submitted for voting at said election, must be filed with the District Clerk of the Board of Education at the District Office, 565 Sayles Street, Oneida, New York, 60 days prior to the election; must be typed or printed in the English Language; must be directed to the Clerk of the School District; must be signed by at least 20% of qualified voters of the District who voted at the District’s most recent Budget Vote and Board Election or 100 qualified voters of the District, whichever is greater, and must state the name and residence of each signer. However, the School Board will not entertain any petition to place before the voters any propsition the purpose of which is not within the powers of the voters to determine, or any proposition which fails to include a specific appropriation where the expenditure of monies is required by the proposition. AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that at such Annual Budget Vote of said City School District to be held on May 19th, 2015, the following propositions will be presented to the qualified voters of said School District: PROPOSITION NO. 1 To adopt the annual budget of the School District for the fiscal year 2015-2016 and to authorize the requisite portion thereof to be raised by taxation on the taxable property of the District, which will appear as Proposition No. 1 on the voting machines. BUSES PROPOSITION NO. 2 RESOLVED that, pursuant to Chapter 472 of the Session laws of 1998, the Board of Education of the City School District of the City of Oneida, Madison County, New York, is hereby authorized to lease and expend therefore, including costs incidental thereto and the financing thereof, an amount not to exceed the estimated cost of $55,500, and for a term not to exceed five (5) years, the following motor vehicles: three (3) sixty-six seat passenger school buses; AND, that such sum, or so much therof as may be necessary, shall be raised by the levy of a tax collected in annual installments; and that in anticipation of such tax, obligations of the District shll be issue. ***** AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, no resident of the Oneida City School shall be entitled to vote at said City School District Election whose name does not appear upon the register of the election district in which he/she seeks to vote. The polling places at such Annual Budget Vote and School Board Election are as follows: * SCHOOL ELECTION DISTRICT #1: Oneida Senior High School Registered voters residing south of the New York State Thruway * SCHOOL ELECTION DISTRICT #2: Durhamville Elementary School Registered voters residing north of the New York State Thruway. March 17, 2015 James Rowley, Clerk of the Board
↧