Referred to: The Laws and Rules, Governmental Services Committee (Chairman

Roberts and Legislators Belfiglio, Donaldson, R. Parete and Rodriguez)

Legislators Hector S. Rodriguez and Tracey A. Bartels offer the following:

WHEREAS, pursuant to Resolution No. 394, dated November 18, 2014, the

Ulster County Legislature established the Solid Waste Management Improvement

Commission to comprehensively review the technologies, grant funding and host

benefits available to newly established solid waste disposal facilities; and

WHEREAS, pursuant to Resolution No. 394 of 2014, the Solid Waste

Management Improvement Commission was to provide a written report of its

findings and recommendations to the Ulster County Legislature and the County

Executive within one (1) year of its initial meeting, effectively March 2, 2016; and

WHEREAS, the Solid Waste Management Improvement Commission has

held nineteen meetings over the past fifteen months and traveled over 2000 miles to

various final disposal facilities throughout New York State; and

WHEREAS, the Solid Waste Management Improvement Commissioners have

been actively completing the written report, with individual, volunteer

Commissioners drafting the various sections and recommendations; and

WHEREAS, Resolution No. 89 of 2016 authorized the Commission a sixty

(60) day extension to May 1, 2016 to report its findings to the Ulster County

Legislature and the Ulster County Executive; and

WHEREAS, pursuant to Resolution No. 171 of 2016, three vacancies on the

Commission were filled due to the change in leadership of the Ulster County

Legislature, the City of Kingston, and the Ulster County Resource Recovery Agency;

and

WHEREAS, extended time is necessary in order to accommodate additional

facility visits for new members, as well as time to complete the Commission’s final

report which is approximately 100 pages in its draft form; now, therefore be it,

RESOLVED, that the Solid Waste Management Improvement Commission is

hereby authorized a ninety (90) day extension to August 1, 2016 to report its findings

to the Ulster County Legislature and the Ulster County Executive, 

and move its adoption.

ADOPTED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:

AYES: 22 NOES: 0

(Absent: Legislator Loughran)

Passed Committee: Laws and Rules, Governmental Services on April 18, 2016

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 19th Day of April 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 20th Day of April in

the year Two Thousand and Sixteen.

|s| Victoria A. Fabella

Victoria A. Fabella, Clerk

Ulster County Legislature