Resolution Information
RESOLUTION TEXT +-
Legislators Mary Beth Maio, Hector Rodriguez, and Kenneth Ronk offer the
following:
WHEREAS, Section 154 of County Law of the State of New York provides
that the Ulster County Legislature may create standing committees for the purpose of
aiding and assisting the Legislature in the transaction of its business; and
WHEREAS, the aforementioned State Law requires that “any local law or
resolution creating any such committee shall specify the powers, duties and number
of its members”; and
WHEREAS, it is in the best interest of the County of Ulster to formally create
standing committees for the purpose of aiding and assisting the Ulster County
Legislature in the transaction of its business; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED, that all standing committees for the year 2018 are hereby set
forth as follows and described below:
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, TOURISM, HOUSING, PLANNING & TRANSIT
To set legislative policy and review contracts for all aspects of Economic
Development, Tourism, and Planning. Responsible for issues pertaining to: Ulster
County Industrial Development Agency, Ulster County Planning Department,
Revolving Loan Fund Committee, Shovel Ready Committee, Office of Economic
Development, Employment and Training, Public Transportation, Technology and the
Department of Information Services. To foster relations with the County and local
Chambers of Commerce.
ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT
To set policy and review contracts pertaining to the Department of the Environment,
Environmental Management Council, Fish and Wildlife Management Board, Forest
Practice Board, and Soil and Water Conservation District, including the protection of
water ways and the County’s recycling efforts. To set policy and review contracts
pertaining to but not limited to the activities of the Ulster County Resource Recovery
Agency.
LAW ENFORCEMENT AND PUBLIC SAFETY
To set policy and review contracts pertaining to the following County Departments:
Ulster County Sheriff and the Law Enforcement Center, Probation, Emergency
Communications/Emergency Management, Arson Task Force, Traffic Safety, Fire
Coordinator, STOP DWI, District Attorney, Consumer Fraud Bureau, Safety and
Public Defender.
LAWS AND RULES, GOVERNMENTAL SERVICES
To set policy and review contracts pertaining to the following County Departments:
Office of Accountability, Compliance and Efficiency, Board of Elections, County
Attorney, County Comptroller, Weights and Measures, Human Rights and Insurance.
To oversee Legislative policy and revisions the Legislature wants to see implemented
in the Ulster County Charter and the Administrative Code. To review and maintain
the Rules of the Legislature and to review and approve all local laws for legal
sufficiency only, unless Laws and Rules, Governmental Services is the committee of
original jurisdiction. To approve all late resolutions, considering lateness and content
prior to submittal to the full Legislature. To approve resolutions required to be
referred to it under the Rules of the Legislature.
LEGISLATIVE PROGRAMS, EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY SERVICES
To set policy and review contracts pertaining and related to the following: Arts,
Ulster County Community College, Historian, Libraries, Cornell Cooperative
Extension, Community Action, Office for the Aging, Youth Bureau, and Veterans
Affairs.
PUBLIC HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES
To set policy for and review contracts pertaining to the following County
Departments: Health, Mental Health, and Social Services.
PUBLIC WORKS AND CAPITAL PROJECTS
To set policy for and review contracts pertaining to the following County
Departments: Public Works (including Parks, Highways, and Buildings and
Grounds), Transportation and Capital Projects.
WAYS AND MEANS
To recommend the Legislature’s position on all budgetary and financial matters of
the County. To review contracts pertaining to the following departments: County
Clerk, Finance, Personnel, Purchasing, and Real Property Tax Services. To approve
all resolutions with financial impacts to the County, excluding those financial
impacts limited solely to legislative advertising expenses;
and, be it further
RESOLVED, that each of the standing committees set forth herein and above
shall consist of five to eight members; and, be it further
RESOLVED, that nothing herein shall be deemed to authorize the delegation
of any of the powers, duties or responsibilities of the County Legislature or any
officer thereof except as otherwise expressly authorized by law,
and move its adoption.
ADOPTED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:
AYES: 23 NOES: 0
Passed Committee: Committee of the Whole on January 8, 2018
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 8th Day of January 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 9th Day of January
in the year Two Thousand and Eighteen.
|s| Victoria A. Fabella
Victoria A. Fabella, Clerk
Ulster County Legislature
Current Text: PDF
Updated: February 4, 2019
Votes on this Resolution
yes no abstained no voteCommittee Vote to Adopt Resolution No. 3
Vote to Adopt Resolution No. 3
...