In re the Arbitration between Kingston City Schools Consolidated & Sheraden

*1098OPINION OF THE COURT

Con. G. Cholakis, J.

By contract dated November 23, 1976, the petitioner hired the respondents to perform certain architectural work. Thereafter, on December 28, 1978, petitioner served respondents with a seven-day notice terminating their services. A meeting was held between the parties and their representatives on January 10, 1979 apparently in an attempt to resolve the conditions under which respondents’ services were to be terminated. On the same day, petitioner’s board of education adopted a resolution immediately terminating respondents’ services.

On the very next day,…