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

Committee (Chairman Maloney and Legislators Berky, Delaune, Lapp, Litts, Maio

and Rodriguez)

 Legislator Ronald G. Lapp, Jr. and Legislators Briggs and 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 2, 2016, 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, as documented in a letter dated June 15, 2016, 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 27, 2016, the Ulster County Trails Advisory Committee

unanimously passed a resolution supporting the Town of Wawarsing pursuing the

Colony Farm Agri-tourism feasibility study for this year and advised the Economic

Development, Tourism, Housing, Planning and Transit Committee to support this

measure; and

WHEREAS, the Ulster County Legislature has a history of supporting this

funding application as demonstrated by the unanimous adoption of Resolution No.

263, dated July 21, 2015; 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

2016 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: 20 NOES: 0

(Absent: Legislators Fabiano, R. Parete and

Roberts)

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

on July 5, 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 July 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 July in

the year Two Thousand and Sixteen.

|s| Victoria A. Fabella

Victoria A. Fabella, Clerk

Ulster County Legislature