Polmanteer v. Bobo

Gorski, J. (dissenting in part).

I respectfully dissent in part. In my view, Supreme Court properly agreed with petitioners that Education Law § 2023 (1) requires respondents to fund “ordinary contingent expenses” as part of the contingency budget of the Cato-Meridian Central School District (District), and that the enumerated ordinary contingent expenses include expenses incurred for “interschool athletics, field trips and other extracurricular activities,” as set forth in the statute.

As the majority notes, at various intervals the Legislature defined and then expanded its definition of the…