Dannemora Union Free School District v. Sobol

OPINION OF THE COURT

William H. Keniry, J.

This CPLR article 78 proceeding challenges the propriety of the decision of the State Commissioner of Education (Commissioner) in failing to authorize a second special election in a school district annexation proceeding.

The underlying facts are undisputed. The Commissioner issued an annexation order in May 1987, pursuant to the provisions of article 37 of the Education Law, which directed the dissolution of the petitioner, the Dannemora Union Free School District (Dannemora), and ordered the annexation of Dannemora’s territory into the Saranac Central…