Resolution Information
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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 Ulster County Community College; and
WHEREAS, Ulster County Community College (hereinafter “UCCC”) has
been awarded $600,000 in funding through the NYSUNY 2020 Challenge Grant
Program to incentivize long-term economic development plans on SUNY campuses
and the surrounding communities; and
WHEREAS, UCCC intends to establish a new center for business innovation
and technology (hereinafter named the “Pfeiffer Center for Business Innovation and
Technology”), which will be co-located on UCCC’s Stone Ridge Campus, and at the
Business Resource Center (hereinafter the “BRC”) located in the Town of Ulster; and
WHEREAS, UCCC will renovate the Hardenburgh Science Labs on UCCC’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 UCCC’s programs in business workforce training and professional technical
training, continue to support the growth of 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 (hereinafter “SMARTT”) Lab network; and
WHEREAS, UCCC will renovate approximately 5,000 square feet of space at
the BRC 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 UCCC’s partnership with Ulster BOCES and the
integration of Ulster BOCES vocational programs at the BRC, and to meet the new
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (hereinafter “WIOA”), which mandates
entrepreneurship training and certifications of achievement for One-Stop clients; and
WHEREAS, UCCC will use the NYSUNY 2020 Challenge Grant Program
award to fund a portion of the Pfieffer Center for Business Innovation and
Technology project to develop long-term economic development plans on UCCC’s
Stone Ridge campus; and
WHEREAS, this action constitutes a Type II action under section 4.1.5 of the
County of Ulster’s State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA) Type II List
that was adopted in 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 Chairman of the Ulster County Legislature is authorized
to enter into the Service Agreement with the State University Construction Fund, in
the form as filed with the Clerk of the Ulster County Legislature or as modified with
the approval of the County Attorney, and any amendments thereto,
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:
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 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
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Updated: October 27, 2020
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