Referred to: The Economic Development, Tourism, Housing, Planning and Transit

Committee (Chairman James Maloney and Legislators Archer, Delaune, Litts, Maio,

Rodriguez, and Woltman), and The Ways and Means Committee (Chairman

Gerentine and Legislators Archer, Bartels, Lopez, Maio, James Maloney, Joseph

Maloney, and Petit)

Chairman of the Economic Development, Tourism, Housing, Planning, and Transit

Committee, James F. Maloney, and Deputy Chair Hector Rodriguez offer the

following:

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

behalf of the Department of Public Transportation; and

WHEREAS, there is an ongoing need to reduce highway congestion and

reduce the number of single occupancy vehicles on the roads; and

WHEREAS, pursuant to Resolution No. 218 dated July 9, 2008, the Chairman

of the Ulster County Legislature executed a three-year agreement with the Town of

New Paltz ending November 30, 2011 to provide public transit service between the

Town of New Paltz, the Village of New Paltz, and the State University of New York

at New Paltz (the “New Paltz LOOP”); and

WHEREAS, pursuant to Resolution No. 229 dated October 18, 2011, the

Chairman of the Ulster County Legislature executed a three-year agreement with the

Town of New Paltz ending November 30, 2014 to continue to provide the New Paltz

LOOP service; and

WHEREAS, pursuant to Resolution No. 318 dated September 23, 2014, the

Chairman of the Ulster County Legislature executed a two-year agreement with the

Town of New Paltz ending November 30, 2016 to continue to provide the New Paltz

LOOP service; and

WHEREAS, pursuant to Resolution No. 51 dated February 15, 2017, the

Chairman of the Ulster County Legislature executed a two-year agreement with the

Town of New Paltz ending November 30, 2018 to continue to provide the New Paltz

LOOP service; and

WHEREAS, operating funds have been approved in the 2018 Ulster County

Budget to continue New Paltz LOOP services for the period beginning December 1,

2018 and ending November 30, 2020; and

WHEREAS, the Ulster County Director of Public Transportation is requesting

the execution of a two-year contract extension with the Town of New Paltz to

continue the New Paltz LOOP public transit service for a term beginning December

1, 2018 and ending November 30, 2020, at an estimated annual operating cost of

$130,462.00; now, therefore be it

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

authorized to execute an agreement and any related amendments with the Town of

New Paltz for the period beginning December 1, 2018 and ending November 30,

2020 to continue the New Paltz LOOP public transit service; and, be it further

RESOLVED, that this service will continue contingent upon the availability of

local operating funds from the Town of New Paltz and adequate bus fares,

and move its adoption.

ADOPTED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:

AYES: 20 NOES: 0

(Absent: Legislators Bartels, Collins, and Eckert)

Passed Committee: Economic Development, Tourism, Housing, Planning and Transit

on November 8, 2018

Passed Committee: Ways and Means on November 13, 2018

FINANCIAL IMPACT:

$ 39,393.00 – BUDGETED 2018 APPROPRIATION DOLLARS

$ 39,393.00 – BUDGETED 2018 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