Referred to: The Economic Development, Tourism, Housing, Planning and Transit

Committee (Chairman Briggs and Legislators Allen, Archer, Bartels, Litts, Maio, and

Maloney)

Legislator Lynn Archer and Legislator Lopez offer the following:

WHEREAS, the Ulster County Legislature is committed to encouraging

economic growth and promoting tourism in Ulster County; and

WHEREAS, on June 4, 2015, the Town of Wawarsing unanimously approved

support for a Regional Economic Development Council Consolidated Funding

Application for the Colony Farm Agri-Tourism Project; and

WHEREAS, the funding application would secure funding for a

comprehensive planning and implementation study to determine the best public uses

for the Colony Farm property and other associated parcels, totaling nearly 500 acres,

currently owned by the New York State Department of Corrections; and

WHEREAS, the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision is on

record indicating its support of the funding application and notes, “the decisions

regarding the ultimate use and disposition are matters to be addressed after the Town

study is completed”; and

WHEREAS, on June 15, 2015, the Ulster County Trails Advisory Committee

passed a resolution supporting the Town of Wawarsing pursuing the Colony Farm

Agri-tourism feasibility study and encouraged the Ulster County Legislature to

support this measure; now, therefore be it

RESOLVED, that the Ulster County Legislature hereby supports the Town of

Wawarsing’s Consolidated Funding Application to provide for a comprehensive

strategic plan designed to research, assess, and define implementation strategies for

the re-use of the Colony Farm property and four subject parcels; and, be it further

RESOLVED, that the Ulster County Legislature encourages the Mid Hudson

Regional Economic Development Council to award this project funding as part of the

2015 regional investment; and, be it further

RESOLVED, that the Clerk of the Ulster County Legislature shall forward

copies of this resolution to Mid Hudson Regional Economic Development Council

Co-Chairs Dennis Murray and Leonard S. Schleifer, Regional Council Director

Meghan Taylor, Ulster County Economic Development Alliance Director Suzanne

Holt, Town of Wawarsing Supervisor Leonard Distel, and the Friends of Colony

Farm Steering Committee,

and moves its adoption.

ADOPTED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:

AYES: 22 NOES: 0

(Absent: Legislator Maio)

Passed Committee: Economic Development, Tourism, Housing, Planning and Transit

on July 7, 2015

FINANCIAL IMPACT:

NONE

STATE OF NEW YORK

 ss:

COUNTY OF ULSTER

I, the undersigned Clerk of the Legislature of the County of Ulster, hereby certify that the foregoing resolution is

the original resolution adopted by the Ulster County Legislature on the 21st Day of July in the year Two Thousand and

Fifteen, and said resolution shall remain on file in the office of said clerk.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of the County of Ulster this 23rd Day of July in

the year Two Thousand and Fifteen.

|s| Victoria A. Fabella

Victoria A. Fabella, Clerk

Ulster County Legislature