Referred to: The Legislative Programs, Education and Community Services

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

Lopez), The Public Works and Capital Projects Committee (Chairman Fabiano and

Legislators Greene, Litts, Loughran, and Maloney), 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, this resolution has been submitted by the County Executive on

behalf of the Ulster County Community College; and

WHEREAS, SUNY Ulster intends to establish a new center for business

innovation and technology hereafter named the Pfeiffer Center for Business

Innovation and Technology which will be co-located on SUNY Ulster’s Stone Ridge

Campus and at the Business Resource Center (BRC) located in the Town of Ulster;

and

WHEREAS, SUNY Ulster will renovate +/- 4,000 square feet of space in the

Hardenburgh Science Labs on SUNY Ulster’s Stone Ridge Campus to develop a new

Associates in Applied Science (AAS) program in Mechatronics; and

WHEREAS, the Pfeiffer Center for Business Innovation and Technology will

enhance SUNY Ulster’s programs in business workforce training and professional

technical training, continue to support the growth of the Ulster County’s Guaranteed

Jobs in Manufacturing Program, educate students and enhance product testing

through participation in the New York State SUNY Manufacturing Alliance for

Research and Technology Transfer (SMARTT) Lab network; and

WHEREAS, SUNY Ulster will provide and install equipment, and complete

basic reconfiguration of +/- 5,000 square feet of space at the Business Resource

Center in the Town of Ulster to accommodate training equipment and technology to

meet the needs of regional businesses utilizing One-Stop workforce and employment

services, expand SUNY Ulster’s partnership with Ulster BOCES and the integration

of BOCES vocational programs at the BRC and to meet the new Workforce

Innovation and Opportunity Act which mandates entrepreneurship training and

certifications of achievement for One-Stop clients; and 

WHEREAS, SUNY Ulster has secured $1,279,696, and has requested an

additional $127,745 in grant funding from various sources for the proposed Pfeiffer

Center for Business Innovation and Technology; and

WHEREAS, this renovation of an existing structure constitutes a Type II

action under section 2.2 of the County of Ulster’s State Environmental Quality

Review Act (SEQRA) Type II List that was adopted by Resolution No. 118 on April

20, 2010; and

WHEREAS, as per section 3 of the County’s Type II List, this action does not

pose a significant potential environmental impact and may be progressed as a Type II

action in accordance with 6 NYCRR Part 617 of SEQRA; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED, that the 2016-2021 Capital Program is amended as follows:

ADD

Pfeiffer Center – SUNY Ulster $1,407,441.00;

and, be it further

RESOLVED, that Capital Project No. 0464 Pfeiffer Center – SUNY Ulster is

hereby established; and, be it further

RESOLVED, that the Capital Fund is hereby amended as follows:

INCREASE AMOUNT

HH.2497.0464.4300-4330 Professional Services Architectural $100,000.00

HH.2497.0464-4300-4355 Professional Services Engineering $ 11,000.00

HH.2497.0464-2300.2550 Construction $986,624.00

HH.2497.0464.2300.2500 Equipment $309,817.00

(App. #)

HH.2497.0464-3300.3297 State Aid Education $999,745.00

Capital Project 0464

HH.2497.0464-3400.4297 Federal Aid Education $207,696.00

Capital Project 0464

HH.2497.0464-3280-2705 Miscellaneous Local Sources $200,000.00

(Rev.#)

and move its adoption.

ADOPTED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:

AYES: 23 NOES: 0

Passed Committee: Legislative Programs, Education and Community Services on

January 20, 2016

Passed Committee: Public Works and Capital Projects on January 21, 2016

Passed Committee: Ways and Means on January 26, 2016

FINANCIAL IMPACT:

NO FINANCIAL IMPACT TO COUNTY

($1,407,441.00 - SUNY ULSTER GRANT FUNDING)

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 26th Day of January 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 29th Day of January

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

29th Day of January, 2016. 5

th Day of February, 2016.

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

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

Ulster County Legislature