Referred to: The Law Enforcement and Public Safety Committee (Chairwoman

Maio and Legislators Collins, Eckert, Fabiano, and Haynes), and The Ways and

Means Committee (Chairman Gerentine and Legislators Archer, Bartels, Lopez,

Maio, James Maloney, Joseph Maloney, and Petit)

Chairwoman of the Law Enforcement and Public Safety Committee, Mary Beth

Maio, and Deputy Chair Julius Collins offer the following:

WHEREAS, this resolution has been submitted by the County Executive on

behalf of the Department of Probation; and

WHEREAS, the Probation Director has requested that the Chairman of the

Ulster County Legislature be authorized to execute an agreement with the New York

State Office of Victim Services to accept a grant for a Victims of Crime Act (VOCA)

Victim Assistance Program: Attorney Services initiative; and

WHEREAS, the Department of Probation administers the Crime Victim

Assistance Program (CVAP), which aids victims and witnesses of crime; and

WHEREAS, the grant will be used to provide funding to provide holistic civil

legal services to victims in areas of family offenses, custody, visitation, child support

and victim-related immigration matters; and

WHEREAS, the Department of Probation has been awarded a five (5) year

grant totaling $1,363,193 subject to state funding from the New York State Office of

Victim Services, with an award in the amount of $257,770.00 for the period

beginning October 1, 2018 and ending September 30, 2019, and a match will be

provided from Legal Services of the Hudson Valley in the amount of $64,983.00;

now, therefore be it

RESOLVED, that the Chairman of the Ulster County Legislature is hereby

authorized to execute any agreements and any amendments thereto with the New

York State Office of Victim Services to accept a grant for a Victims of Crime Act

(VOCA) Victim Assistance Program: Attorney Services initiative, as filed with the

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

County Attorney in consultation with the Chairman of the Legislature and the Chair

and Deputy Chair of the Law Enforcement and Public Safety Committee, 

and move its adoption.

ADOPTED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:

AYES: 20 NOES: 0

(Absent: Legislators Bartels, Collins, and Eckert)

Passed Committee: Law Enforcement and Public Safety on November 5, 2018

Passed Committee: Ways and Means on November 13, 2018

FINANCIAL IMPACT:

$257,770.00 – 2019 ADDITIONAL APPROPRIATIONS

$257,770.00 – 2019 ADDITIONAL STATE REVENUE DOLLARS

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 20th Day of November 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 17th Day of October

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

21st Day of November, 2018. 29th Day of November, 2018.

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

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

Ulster County Legislature