SAP News
2025-26 School Year Webinars
We are beginning to plan our webinars for the 2025-26 school year. We are pleased with the large increase in participation with our webinars in recent years but are always interested in your feedback. If there are any topics that you would like to see us incorporate...
2024-25 Summer School Payments
2024-25 §4408 Summer School Age Education / Maintenance Payment 01 was only partially paid in order to stay within the limit of the designated appropriation for the Summer 4408 program for the current State fiscal year. The remaining amount will be paid out as an...
Final Cost Reports
If your district has final cost reports that need to be completed for aid to begin in 2024-2025, please complete them in advance of the deadline of June 30th. Early Aid Start and Capital Outlay Exception projects continue to have due dates for their FCRs. Due dates...
Bus Purchases
As a reminder, be sure to enter any bus purchases by June 30th. After that time, SAMS BP form will be closed and reopen in August for the 2025-26 Claim Year. Aid on bus purchases will begin based on the later of: (1) the certification date or (2) twelve months after...
Medicaid Annual Cost Reports
The Annual Cost Report identifying the costs incurred for the July 1, 2023 – June 30, 2024, school year will open on Monday, April 28, 2025, and must be filed and certified by June 9, 2025. To assist school districts and counties in this process, the NYS Department of...
Claims Verifications – Due April 25th
SED has opened the SAMS Claims Form Verification process, and your response and related submissions are due by April 25th. For any of the seven areas selected this year that have a “Y” next to them, you must first acknowledge that you have been selected and then...
Property Tax Report Card (PTRC) – Due April 28th
The PTRC must be submitted to SED using SAMS by the end of the next business day following adoption of the report card, but no later than 24 days prior to the Budget Vote.
Administrative Salary Disclosure – Due May 12th
The Administrative Salary Disclosure form is now available in SAMS and is due no later than May 12. The threshold for the 2025-26 school year is all administrators with superintendent in their title, regardless of budgeted salary, and any administrator or supervisor...
Instructional Materials Aid Guidebook
Our Instructional Materials Aid Guidebook is now posted to our website. As a reminder, be sure you are maximizing your expenditures in the IMA categories by June 30th.
Maximum 2025-2026 STAR Exemption Savings Now Available
Maximum STAR Exemption Savings for 2025-26 is now available on NYS Department of Taxation and Finance website. If your district has multiple municipalities in it, use the maximum exemption for the municipality with the largest group of taxpayers for the Budget Notice.