Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, if the city of Yonkers imposes the additional one-half of one percent rate of sales and compensating use taxes authorized by item (b) of clause one of subparagraph (ii) of the opening paragraph of section twelve hundred ten of this article, the city shall use the net collections from such additional one-half of one percent rate solely for the support of education, unless the city council votes, on an annual basis, to use such net collections for a different purpose of the city, provided, however, that the requirements of paragraph b of subdivision five-b of section two thousand five hundred seventy-six of the education law are met.
N.Y. Tax Law § 1262-T