Referred to: The Law Enforcement and Public Safety Committee (Chairman Briggs

and Legislators Fabiano, Lapp, Maio, and Rodriguez), and The Ways and Means

Committee (Chairman Gerentine and Legislators Allen, Bartels, Belfiglio, Briggs,

Maio, and Maloney)

Legislator Craig Lopez offers the following:

WHEREAS, the Ulster County Legislature appropriated to the Walker Valley

Chemical Engine No. 1 the sum of Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) in the 2017

Ulster County Budget to be expended for the purpose of offsetting costs associated

with purchasing heat resistant wall panels for the Walker Valley Fire District burn

tower, currently the only operating burn tower in Ulster County; and

WHEREAS, the Walker Valley Chemical Engine No. 1 will receive payment

not to exceed $5,000.00, in accordance with the terms specified in an agreement with

the County of Ulster and the Walker Valley Chemical Engine No. 1, and will return

any unexpended funds as of December 31, 2017, along with a certified accounting of

expenditures to the Commissioner of Finance; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED, the Chairman of the Ulster County Legislature is hereby

authorized to execute an agreement not to exceed the amount of $5,000.00, to be

expended towards costs associated with purchasing heat resistant wall panels for the

Walker Valley Fire District burn tower, in the form as filed with the Clerk of the

Ulster County Legislature or as modified with the approval of the County Attorney,

Counsel to the County Legislature, Chairman of the County Legislature, and the

Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Law Enforcement and Public Safety

Committee; and, be it further

RESOLVED, that as part of the agreement, the Comptroller and/or any and all

officers of the County of Ulster, their agents and representatives, shall be allowed full

access upon reasonable notice and at reasonable times to the books, papers, records

and premises of the Walker Valley Chemical Engine No. 1 during the period that

this resolution is in effect for the purpose of ascertaining the manner in which the

above sum of money is being used or applied; and, be it further

RESOLVED, that the above organization agrees to comply with all applicable

Federal, State and local regulations including, in particular, any forbidding

discrimination by such organization, 

and move its adoption.

ADOPTED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:

AYES: 23 NOES: 0

Passed Committee: Law Enforcement and Public Safety on February 28, 2017

Passed Committee: Ways and Means on March 7, 2017

FINANCIAL IMPACT:

$5,000.00 – AS ALLOCATED IN THE 2017 ULSTER COUNTY BUDGET

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 22nd Day of March 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 24th Day of March

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

24th Day of March, 2017. 30th Day of March, 2017.

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

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

Ulster County Legislature