Opinion
December 17, 1998
Appeal from the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board.
Claimants were employed as temporary teachers by the Buffalo Board of Education during the 1994-1995 academic year. In June 1995, claimants were advised by letter that they would be reemployed during the then-upcoming 1995-1996 academic year. Based upon the evidence adduced at the hearing that followed, the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board concluded that such letter constituted a reasonable assurance of continued employment and, hence, denied claimants' respective applications for benefits. These appeals ensued.
We affirm. "Whether a claimant received a reasonable assurance of employment is a factual issue for the Board to resolve and such determination, if supported by substantial evidence, will not be disturbed" ( Matter of Makis [Tompkins-Seneca-Tioga Bd. of Coop. Educ. Servs. — Commissioner of Labor], 251 A.D.2d 928, 929). Based upon our review of the voluminous record in these matters, we are persuaded that the Board's decisions indeed are supported by substantial evidence and, accordingly, must be affirmed.
Mikoll, J. P., Yesawich Jr., Spain and Graffeo, JJ., concur.
Ordered that the decisions are affirmed, without costs.