Resolution No. 471

Amending Resolution No. 318 Dated September 15, 2015 To Conform To Agreement of Sale of County-Owned Real Property in the Town of Lloyd To The New York State Department Of Environmental Conservation And Authorizing The Chairman Of The Ulster County Legislature To Convey Such Parcel – Department Of Finance

Resolution Information

Status: 
Postponed in Committee

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Referred to: The Energy and Environment Committee (Chairwoman Wawro and

Legislators Bartels, Greene, Joseph Maloney, 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 Ways and Means Committee, Richard A. Gerentine, offers the

following:

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

behalf of the Ulster County Department of Finance; and

WHEREAS, the County acquired, by reason of non-payment of taxes, a

certain parcel of real property consisting of approximately 123.8 acres, identified as

Tax Map Number 79.2-2-1 and located off North Chodikee Lake Road in the Town

of Lloyd, County of Ulster and State of New York (hereinafter referred to as the

“Parcel”); and

WHEREAS, the Parcel is a portion of premises conveyed to the County of

Ulster by tax sale deed from Lewis C. Kirschner as Treasurer of the County of Ulster,

dated April 19, 2004, and recorded in the Ulster County Clerk’s Office on April 19,

2004, as Instrument Number 2004-00011223; and

WHEREAS, pursuant to Resolution No. 318 dated September 15, 2015, the

County Legislature approved the sale and transfer of the Parcel to the People of the

State of New York, acting by and through their Commissioner of Environmental

Conservation (hereinafter referred to as the “DEC”), and by Land Purchase

Agreement, dated June 8, 2016 and signed by both parties, the County of Ulster and

the DEC agreed on a sales price for the Parcel in the sum of One Hundred SeventyEight Thousand, Five Hundred and 00/100 ($178,500.00) Dollars; and

WHEREAS, it is necessary to amend Resolution No. 318 dated September 15,

2015, in order to conform to the terms of the transfer of the Parcel as set forth in said

Land Purchase Agreement between the County and the DEC; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED, that the last “RESOLVED” in Resolution 318 of September 15,

2015 is hereby deleted in its entirety and replaced by the following language:

 

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

and directed to make, execute and deliver to the DEC any and all documents

required to transfer the Parcel from the County to the DEC, including but not

limited to, a quitclaim deed conveying the interest of the County in said

parcel, which quitclaim deed shall contain the covenant that the said County

of Ulster shall in no event be or become liable for any defects in title

conveyed for any cause whatsoever, and that no claim or demand of any

nature shall ever be made against the County of Ulster arising from such sale,

conveyance or the proceedings leading thereto; and a Land Purchase

Agreement; said any and all documents to be reviewed and approved by the

Ulster County Attorney,

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

authorized and directed to make, execute and deliver to the DEC, any and all

documents required to transfer the Parcel from the County to the DEC,

including but not limited to a Land Purchase Agreement, a Bargain and Sale

Deed, and an Affidavit of Title; said any and all documents to be reviewed

and approved by the Ulster County Attorney.”

and move its adoption.

ADOPTED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:

AYES: NOES:

Postponed in Committee: Energy and Environment on November 8, 2018

No Action Taken in Committee: Ways and Means on November 13, 2018

Passed Committee: Energy and Environment on ______________.

Passed Committee: Ways and Means on __________________.

FINANCIAL IMPACT:

$178,500.00 – ADDITIONAL 2018 TAX DOLLARS

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Updated: February 5, 2019

Votes on this Resolution

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Thu, Nov 8, 2018 2018-2019 Term: Energy and Environment Committee
Committee Vote to Postpone Resolution No. 471
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No
Abstained
No Vote

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