Referred to: The Legislative Programs, Education and Community Services

Committee (Chairman Wawro and Legislators Berky, Delaune, Donaldson and

Lopez), and The Ways and Means Committee (Chairman Gerentine and Legislators

Allen, Bartels, Belfiglio, Briggs, Maio, and Maloney)

Chairman of the Legislative Programs, Education and Community Services

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

following:

WHEREAS, the Ulster County Legislature appropriated to Family of

Woodstock, Inc., the sum of $25,000.00 in the 2016 Ulster County Budget for the

Supervised Visitation Program; and

WHEREAS, Family of Woodstock, Inc., will conduct a majority of the

supervised visitation of non-custodial parents with their children as assigned by the

Ulster County Family Court at the Darmstadt Shelter for the Homeless or the Family

Inn, located at 38-50 Thomas Street, Kingston, NY, and in addition may occasionally

provide supervised visitation at the YWCA, Kingston, NY, or Family of

Woodstock’s walk-in centers in New Paltz and Ellenville; and

WHEREAS, in order to receive such funds, Family of Woodstock, Inc., must

submit to the Ulster County Legislature a verified accounting of disbursements to be

undertaken, and to the Ulster County Commissioner of Finance, a Memorandum of

Receipt signed by the principal officer; and

WHEREAS, Family of Woodstock, Inc., will receive payment in the amount

of $25,000.00, in accordance with the terms specified in an agreement between the

County of Ulster and Family of Woodstock, Inc., and will return any unexpended

funds as of December 31, 2016, along with a certified accounting of expenditures to

the Commissioner of Finance; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED, that the Chairman of the Ulster County Legislature is hereby

authorized to execute an agreement in the amount of $25,000.00, with Family of

Woodstock, Inc., for providing supervised visitation of non-custodial parents with

their children as assigned by the Ulster County Family Court, in the form as filed

with the Clerk of the Ulster County Legislature or as modified with the approval of

the County Attorney, in consultation with Counsel to the Ulster County Legislature,

Chairman of the Legislature, and the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the

Legislative Programs, Education and Community Services Committee; and, be it

further 

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 Family of Woodstock, Inc., 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 move its adoption.

ADOPTED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:

AYES: 22 NOES: 0

(Legislator Lopez left at 7:19 PM)

Passed Committee: Legislative Programs, Education and Community Services on

March 9, 2016

Passed Committee: Ways and Means on March 8, 2016

FINANCIAL IMPACT:

$25,000.00 – AS ALLOCATED IN THE 2016 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 15th Day of March in the year Two Thousand and

Sixteen, 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 17th Day of March

in the year Two Thousand and Sixteen.

|s| Victoria A. Fabella

Victoria A. Fabella, Clerk

Ulster County Legislature

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

17th Day of March, 2016. 23rd Day of March, 2016.

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

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

Ulster County Legislature