Referred to: The Legislative Programs, Education and Community Services

Committee (Chairman Donaldson and Legislators Collins, Delaune, Eckert, Haynes,

Wawro and Woltman), and The Ways and Means Committee (Chairman Gerentine

and Legislators Archer, Bartels, Lopez, James Maloney, Joseph Maloney, and Petit)

Chairman of the Legislative Programs, Education and Community Services

Committee, David B. Donaldson, and Deputy Chair Heidi Haynes, offer the

following:

WHEREAS, pursuant to the Consolidated Laws of New York, Education Law

Article 5, Part II, Libraries, §256, Contracts: any authority named in section two

hundred fifty-five may, individually or jointly with another municipal or district body

or tribal government which authorities include County governments, grant money for

the support of the cost of maintaining or the cost of any capital improvements to or

expenditure for one or more: free association libraries, provided such libraries are

registered by the regents; public libraries, provided such libraries are registered by

the regents; and cooperative library systems approved by the commissioner; and

WHEREAS, the Ulster County Legislature has appropriated the sum of

Seventy Nine Thousand Two Hundred Fifty Dollars ($79,250.00) in the 2018 Ulster

County Budget for the Ulster County Libraries Program, to be distributed as agreed

to by the majority of libraries in Ulster County; and

WHEREAS, the majority of libraries have agreed to the distribution of such

funds as follows or equivalent resources:

• OverDrive $19,500.00

• Ancestry Library $10,500.00

• Capira Mobile for Libraries $ 5,600.00

• Zinio $ 4,000.00

• Chilton’s $ 550.00

• Qello Concerts $ 9,000.00

• Comics Plus $ 8,100.00

• Foundation Center $ 2,000.00

• BrainHQ $ 7,500.00

• Mango Languages $ 3,500.00

• NuWav Legal Docs $ 3,000.00

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now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED, that the Ulster County Commissioner of Finance is hereby

authorized and directed to pay to the Mid-Hudson Library System the sum of

Seventy Nine Thousand Two Hundred Fifty Dollars ($79,250.00) for the Ulster

County Libraries Program; and, be it further

RESOLVED, that the said Mid-Hudson Library System shall render a verified

account of disbursements, including a list of the distribution; and, be it further

RESOLVED, that the County 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 view the books, papers, records and

premises of the Mid-Hudson Library System 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 no County money shall be paid to the said Mid-Hudson

Library System until a memorandum of receipt, signed by the Director or Business

Manager, agreeing to comply with the terms of this Resolution, is delivered to the

County Commissioner of Finance,

and move its adoption.

ADOPTED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:

AYES: 22 NOES: 0

(Absent: Legislator Collins)

Passed Committee: Legislative Programs, Education and Community Services on

February 8, 2018

Passed Committee: Ways and Means on February 13, 2018

FINANCIAL IMPACT:

$79,250.00 – AS ALLOCATED IN THE 2018 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 13th Day of February in the year Two Thousand and

Eighteen, 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 14th Day of

February in the year Two Thousand and Eighteen.

|s| Victoria A. Fabella

Victoria A. Fabella, Clerk

Ulster County Legislature

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

15th Day of February, 2018. 23rd Day of February, 2018.

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

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

Ulster County Legislature