Resolution Information
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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
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Updated: January 28, 2019
Votes on this Resolution
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Committee Vote to Adopt Resolution No. 453
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