Referred to:  The Public Health and Social Services Committee (Chairman Lopez and Legislators Collins, Nolan, Petit, and Wawro), and The Ways and Means Committee (Chairwoman Archer and Legislators Gerentine, Maio, James Maloney, Joseph Maloney, Petit, and Rodriguez)

Chairman of the Public Health and Social Services Committee, Craig V. Lopez, and Deputy Chair Kathy Nolan offer the following:

WHEREAS, this resolution has been submitted by the County Executive on behalf of the Department of Social Services, and

WHEREAS, Sections A3-4 (Y) and A2-6(A)(3) of the Administrative Code provide that the Chairman of the Ulster County Legislature can, upon approval of the County Legislature, enter into an intermunicipal agreement on behalf of the County of Ulster; and

WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 119-n(a) of General Municipal Law, the definition of a municipal corporation includes a school district; and

WHEREAS, the Commissioner of the Ulster County Department of Social Services requests that the Chairman of the Ulster County Legislature be authorized to execute an intermunicipal agreement with the Onteora Central School District in the amount of $60,000.00 for the Preschool Special Education and Related Services Program (the “Program”), for the period beginning July 1, 2019 and ending June 30, 2023; and

WHEREAS, the Program is an approved program under Section 4410 of New York State Education Law, which defines “special education itinerant services” and provides that such services shall include direct individual and/or group instruction to preschoolers with disabilities, by a certified special education teacher, as part of an approved program; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED, that the Chair of the Ulster County Legislature is authorized to execute an intermunicipal agreement and any related amendments with the Onteora Central School District in the amount of $60,000.00 for the Program, for the period beginning July 1, 2019 and ending June 30, 2023, in the form as filed with the Clerk of the Ulster County Legislature, or as modified with the approval of the County Attorney,