Referred to: The Legislative Programs, Education and Community Services

Committee (Chairman Donaldson, and Legislators Gregorius, Lopez, and Wawro),

and The Ways and Means Committee (Chairman Gerentine and Legislators Allen,

Belfiglio, Briggs, Gregorius, Maio, Maloney, and R. Parete)

Chairman of the Legislative Programs, Education and Community Services

Committee, David B. Donaldson, and Deputy Chairman Mary Wawro offer the

following:

WHEREAS, performing arts are an important component of our cultural

heritage, and the many performances arranged by the Ulster Performing Arts Center

attract Hudson Valley County residents as well as travelers to see a broad range of

entertainment for the community; and

WHEREAS, pursuant to County Law Section 224 (13), the Ulster County

Legislature appropriated to the Ulster Performing Arts Center the sum of $18,750.00

in the 2015 Ulster County Budget for the maintenance of facilities; and

WHEREAS, pursuant to County Law Section 224 (13), in order to receive

such funds, the Ulster Performing Arts Center must submit to the Ulster County

Legislature a verified accounting of disbursements to be undertaken, and to the

Commissioner of Finance, a Memorandum of Receipt signed by the principal officer;

and

WHEREAS, the Ulster Performing Arts Center will receive payment in the

amount of $18,750.00, in accordance with the terms specified in an agreement with

the County of Ulster and the Ulster Performing Arts Center and will return any

unexpended funds as of December 31, 2015, along with a certified accounting of

expenditures to the Commissioner of Finance; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED, that as part of the agreement, the Comptroller and/or any and all

officers of the County of Ulster, their agents and representatives, shall be allowed full

access upon reasonable notice and at reasonable times to the books, papers, records

and premises of the Ulster Performing Arts Center, during the period that this

resolution is in effect for the purpose of ascertaining the manner in which the above

sum of money is being used or applied; and, be it further

RESOLVED, that the above organization agrees to comply with all applicable

Federal, State and local regulations including, in particular, any forbidding

discrimination by such organization; and, be it further

RESOLVED, that as part of the agreement, the Chairman of the Ulster County

Legislature is hereby authorized to execute an agreement in the amount of

$18,750.00, for the maintenance of facilities for the Ulster Performing Arts Center, in

the form as filed with the Clerk of the Ulster County Legislature or as modified with

the approval of the County Attorney, Counsel to the County Legislature, Chairman of

the County Legislature, and the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Legislative

Programs, Education and Community Services Committee,

and move its adoption.

ADOPTED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:

AYES: 23 NOES: 0

Passed Committee: Legislative Programs, Education and Community Services on

March 10, 2015

Passed Committee: Ways and Means on March 11, 2015

FINANCIAL IMPACT:

$18,750.00 – AS ALLOCATED IN THE 2015 ULSTER COUNTY BUDGET

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 17th Day of March 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 20th Day of March

in the year Two Thousand and Fifteen.

|s| Victoria A. Fabella

Victoria A. Fabella, Clerk

Ulster County Legislature

Submitted to the County Executive this Approved by the County Executive this

20th Day of March, 2015. 26

th Day of March, 2015.

|s| Victoria A. Fabella |s| Michael P. Hein

Victoria A. Fabella, Clerk Michael P. Hein, County Executive

Ulster County Legislature