Referred to: The Ways and Means Committee (Chairman Gerentine and Legislators

Allen, Bartels, Belfiglio, Briggs, Maio, and Maloney)

Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, Richard A. Gerentine, and Deputy

Chairman Thomas J. Briggs offer the following:

WHEREAS, the Ulster County Legislature requested State legislation

allowing the County to continue the additional sales and compensating use tax rate of

1% (one percent) for an additional twenty-four months, from December 1, 2017 to

November 30, 2019; and

WHEREAS, such legislation has now been introduced as Senate Bill No.

S5568 and Assembly Bill No. A7409 so that a formal Home Rule Request is now

appropriate; now, therefore be it

RESOLVED, that the County Executive and the Clerk of the Ulster County

Legislature be authorized to execute and submit a Home Rule Request (Request by a

Local Government for Enactment of a Special Law), pursuant to Article IX of the

Constitution, requesting the enactment of Senate Bill No. S5568 and Assembly Bill

No. A7409 entitled “An act to amend the tax law and Chapter 200 of the laws of

2002 amending the tax law relating to certain tax rates imposed by the County of

Ulster, to impose an additional 1% sales and compensating use tax,”,

and move its adoption.

ADOPTED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:

AYES: 21 NOES: 0

(Absent: Legislators Delaune and Fabiano)

Passed Committee: Ways and Means on May 9, 2017

FINANCIAL IMPACT:

$21,362,628.00 – COUNTY-ANNUALIZED REVENUES FOR 12 MONTHS

$ 5,136,927.00 – CITY OF KINGSTON-ANNUALIZED REVENUES FOR 12

 MONTHS

$ 1,340,068.00 – TOWNS-ANNUALIZED REVENUES FOR 12 MONTHS

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 May in the year Two Thousand and

Seventeen, 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 May in

the year Two Thousand and Seventeen.

|s| Victoria A. Fabella

Victoria A. Fabella, Clerk

Ulster County Legislature

Submitted to the County Executive this Approved by the County Executive this

17th Day of May, 2017. 17th Day of May, 2017.

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

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

Ulster County Legislature