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Board hears details of a 5-year lease to house UPK/6th-grade students; presenters flag $3.9M funding gap
Summary
District advisers outlined a potential 5-year lease of a former Catholic school to temporarily house UPK and 6th-grade space; state lease-aid approval of $2.2M leaves roughly $3.9M in local funding to close, and officials warned that additional state aid requests could trigger BAU recalculations.
Officials described the former Catholic school as the most viable temporary relocation after a district review of community facilities and district-owned space; the building is already functionally a school and could meet New York State UPK requirements with limited renovation.
Presenters said NYSED preliminarily approved about $2.2 million in lease aid but estimated a five-year lease total near $7.1 million, leaving an identified local funding gap of approximately $3.9 million. The fiscal adviser and board members explained that accepting additional state assistance tied to BAU recalculation could produce districtwide reductions in maximum cost allowances. One board member urged caution: "I couldn't agree to that," saying the losses to other schools could be significant without careful analysis.
The presenters said the developer partner has been cooperative and the district is holding in a "waiting pattern" pending final NYSED decisions and further dialogue about funding and potential effects on BAUs.
