The New York City Council - File #: Int 0729-2018

• File #: Int 0729-2018
• Version: A
• Name: Requiring the department of education to post information regarding the process used in determining identified seat need.
• Type: Introduction
• Status: Enacted (Mayor's Desk for Signature)
• File created: 3/22/2018
• In control: Committee on Education
• On agenda: 3/22/2018
• Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the department of education to post information regarding the process used in determining identified seat need
• Sponsors: Ben Kallos, Carlos Menchaca, Brad S. Lander, Vanessa L. Gibson, Stephen T. Levin, Robert F. Holden, Laurie A. Cumbo, Carlina Rivera
• Indexes: Report Required

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
9/12/2018	A	City Council	Sent to Mayor by Council
9/12/2018	A	City Council	Approved by Council	Pass
9/6/2018	*	Committee on Education	Hearing Held by Committee
9/6/2018	*	Committee on Education	Amendment Proposed by Comm
9/6/2018	*	Committee on Education	Amended by Committee
9/6/2018	A	Committee on Education	Approved by Committee	Pass
4/18/2018	*	Committee on Land Use	Laid Over by Committee
4/18/2018	*	Committee on Land Use	Hearing Held by Committee
4/18/2018	*	Committee on Finance	Laid Over by Committee
4/18/2018	*	Committee on Finance	Hearing Held by Committee
4/18/2018	*	Committee on Education	Laid Over by Committee
4/18/2018	*	Committee on Education	Hearing Held by Committee
3/22/2018	*	City Council	Referred to Comm by Council
3/22/2018	*	City Council	Introduced by Council

Int. No. 729-A

By Council Members Kallos, Menchaca, Lander, Gibson, Levin, Holden, Cumbo and Rivera

Title
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the department of education to post information regarding the process used in determining identified seat need
Body

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1. Title 21-a of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new chapter 21 to read as follows:
CHAPTER 21
POSTING OF INFORMATION REGARDING THE PROCESS USED IN DETERMINING IDENTIFIED SEAT NEED
? 21-988 Posting information regarding the process used in determining identified seat need. a. Definitions. For the purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:
Identified seat need. The term "identified seat need" means the number of seats required through the construction of new facilities to meet the enrollment needs in each community school district identified in the five-year educational facilities capital plan created by the department pursuant to section 2590-p of the education law.
Subdistrict. The term "subdistrict" means all geographic boundaries used by the department and the New York city school construction authority to identify where new capital funding will be targeted for building new schools as defined in section 21-989.
b. No later than December 1, 2019, and annually thereafter on or before December 1, the department shall, to the extent such information is accessible by the department, post conspicuously on its website a report, which shall include, but need not be limited to:
1. The process and inputs used to determine identified seat need, including but not limited to:
(a) any categories of non-quantitative criteria considered, which may include but need not be limited to, facility replacements, grade expansion and truncation, school rezonings, co-locating schools, and...