Referred to: The Energy and Environment Committee (Chairman R. Parete and

Legislators Bartels, Heppner, Lapp and Wawro)

Legislator Tracey A. Bartels offers 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, 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, Resolution No. 252 of 2016 authorized the Commission an

additional ninety (90) day extension to August 1, 2016 to report its findings in order

to accommodate additional facility visits for new members, as well as time to

complete the Commission’s final report; and

WHEREAS, a through vetting of final recommendations was proven to be an

extensive undertaking resulting in the adoption of Resolution No. 356 of 2016,

authorizing the Commission an additional ninety (90) day extension to October 31,

2016 to report findings; and

WHEREAS, the Solid Waste Management Improvement Commissioners have

been actively completing the written report, with individual, volunteer

Commissioners drafting and editing the various report sections; and 

WHEREAS, the vetting of final recommendations is still in progress, in

conjunction with new technologies being introduced to and examined by the

Commission; and

WHEREAS, the Commissioners are dedicated to issuing a comprehensive,

thoroughly analyzed report with viable recommendations, which will take substantial

time to complete; now, therefore be it

RESOLVED, that the Solid Waste Management Improvement Commission is

hereby authorized an additional six month extension to May 1, 2017 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 Briggs)

Passed Committee: Energy and Environment on November 14, 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 22nd Day of November 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 23rd Day of

November in the year Two Thousand and Sixteen.

|s| Victoria A. Fabella

Victoria A. Fabella, Clerk

Ulster County Legislature