Referred to: The Public Works and Capital Projects Committee (Chairman Fabiano

and Legislators Greene, Litts, Loughran, and Maloney)

Chairman of the Public Works and Capital Projects Committee, Dean J. Fabiano, and

Deputy Chairman Peter M. Loughran offer the following:

WHEREAS, this resolution has been submitted by the County Executive on

behalf of the Department of Public Works; and

WHEREAS, the Carmine Liberta Bridge (BIN # 3045230), owned by the

County of Ulster, that carries New York State Route 299 over the Wallkill River in

the Village of New Paltz has been determined to be at the end of its useful life and in

need of replacement; and

WHEREAS, the existing Carmine Liberta Bridge (hereinafter the “Bridge”)

carries a waterline that services the Village of New Paltz (hereinafter the “waterline”)

that will need to be relocated as part of the bridge replacement; and

WHEREAS, the New York State Rising Program identified the Village and

Town of New Paltz as eligible for Community Development Block Grant – Disaster

Recovery (hereinafter “CDBG-DR”) funding for projects that provide resiliency and

improve community response to disasters; and

WHEREAS, the New York State Rising Program recognized the Bridge as

being eligible for a portion of these funds to be used for the replacement of the

Bridge and the Village’s waterline that is currently on the Bridge; and

WHEREAS, the County of Ulster has been allocated funds from the New

York State Rising Program to help offset the cost of the Bridge, and the relocation of

the waterline on the Bridge; and

WHEREAS, a Citizens Advisory Committee (hereinafter the “Committee”)

consisting of stakeholders from the New Paltz community made recommendations on

the Bridge replacement; and

WHEREAS, the County of Ulster and the Village of New Paltz agree to

cooperate with each other on the Bridge and waterline replacement; and 

WHEREAS, the Commissioner of the Ulster County Department of Public

Works requests that the Chairman of the Ulster County Legislature be authorized to

execute an inter-municipal agreement with the Village of New Paltz; now, therefore,

be it

RESOLVED, that the Chairman of the Ulster County Legislature is authorized

to execute an inter-municipal agreement, in the form as filed with the Clerk of the

Ulster County Legislature or as modified and approved by the County Attorney, and

any amendments thereto, with the Village of New Paltz for the work to be performed

on replacing the waterline that the Carmine Liberta Bridge carries,

and move its adoption.

ADOPTED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:

AYES: 23 NOES: 0

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