Referred to: The Energy and Environment Committee (Chairman Richard Parete and

Legislators Bartels, Heppner, Lapp, and Wawro)

Legislators Hector S. Rodriguez and Tracey A. Bartels offer 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, 2106; and

WHEREAS, the Solid Waste Management Improvement Commission has

held thirteen meetings over the past eleven months and traveled over 900 miles to

various final disposal facilities throughout New York State; and

WHEREAS, the Solid Waste Management Improvement Commissioners are

actively completing the written report, with individual, volunteer Commissioners

drafting the various sections and recommendations; and

WHEREAS, in order for the Solid Waste Management Improvement

Commission to responsibly fulfill its charge, the reporting deadline must be extended

to allow the Commissioners time to fully capture their work; now, therefore be it,

RESOLVED, that the Solid Waste Management Improvement Commission is

hereby authorized a sixty (60) day extension to May 1, 2016 to report its findings to

the Ulster County Legislature and the Ulster County Executive,

and move its adoption.

ADOPTED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:

AYES: 18 NOES: 0

(Absent: Legislators Briggs, Fabiano, Gerentine,

Maloney, and Roberts) 

Passed Committee: Energy and Environment Committee on February 8, 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 16th Day of February 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 17th Day of

February in the year Two Thousand and Sixteen.

|s| Victoria A. Fabella

Victoria A. Fabella, Clerk

Ulster County Legislature