TROY — The City of Rensselaer is preparing to sue the city school district over accusations that the district has not paid its share of a city-provided school resource officer’s salary for almost a decade.
City attorney Ian Silverman claims Rensselaer has footed $258,616.29 of what the school district should have contributed to the officer’s salary over the past eight years. The hiring agreement automatically renews every year unless either organization opts out or requests a change to the contract.
The agreement has been in place since 2016 and stipulates that “the cost of the SRO Program shall be paid by the parties as set forth in Exhibit A.” Superintendent Joseph Kardash said “no one” can find the referenced exhibit to calculate the total school resource officer fees owed. It’s unclear how organizations were supposed to split the salary costs. Kardash said the contract has not changed since it was put into place…