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, Maio, 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, the Ulster County Community College labor attorney William

Wallens and members of the executive staff have negotiated a one-year extension of

the collective bargaining agreement with Ulster County Community College

Organization of Professional and Administrative Personnel (OPAP), beginning

September 1, 2018 and ending August 31, 2019, and recommend the agreement to

the College’s Board of Trustees and the Ulster County Legislature; and

WHEREAS, the President recommends affirmative action by the College’s

Board of Trustees on the one-year extension of the collective bargaining agreement;

and

WHEREAS, the one-year extension of the collective bargaining agreement

has been reviewed and adopted by the College’s Board of Trustees pursuant to

Resolution #18-8-169 dated August 21, 2018; and

WHEREAS, the changes to the collective bargaining agreement incorporated

into the one-year extension include a longevity increase plus 0.5% in salaries for full

time unit members, as well as a 2% increase in salary for part-time unit members;

and

WHEREAS, the one-year extension also sets out the respective

responsibilities of the College and Campus Peace Officer unit members for work

equipment and the replacement of equipment damaged in the course of duty; and

WHEREAS, the one-year extension requires the College to explore

alternatives before any OPAP retrenchment is put in place, and it also commits the

College and OPAP to discuss the current Level Structure, retrenchment process, and

the issue of paid family leave during the term of the one-year extension; now,

therefore be it

RESOLVED, that the Ulster County Legislature hereby approves the one-year

extension of the collective bargaining agreement between the County of Ulster and

the Ulster County Community College Organization of Professional and

Administrative Personnel (OPAP) beginning September 1, 2018 and ending August

31, 2019; and, be it further

RESOLVED, that the County Executive of the County of Ulster is hereby

authorized to execute a Memorandum of Agreement with the Ulster County

Community College Organization of Professional and Administrative Personnel

(OPAP), as filed with the Clerk of the Ulster County Legislature or as modified with

the approval of the County Attorney,

and move its adoption.

ADOPTED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:

AYES: 20 NOES: 0

(Absent: Legislators Bartels, Collins, and Eckert)

Passed Committee: Ways and Means on November 13, 2018

Passed Committee: Legislative Programs, Education and Community Services on

November 19, 2018

FINANCIAL IMPACT:

$69,707.00 – BUDGETED ULSTER COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE

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