Referred to:  The Energy and Environment Committee (Chairwoman Greene and Legislators Bruno, Criswell, Petit, and Wawro), and The Ways and Means Committee (Chairwoman Archer and Legislators Bartels, Gavaris, Haynes, Maio, Ronk, and Walter)

Chairwoman of the Energy and Environment Committee, Manna Jo Greene, and Deputy Chair Mary Wawro offer the following:

WHEREAS, the Ulster County Legislature appropriated to the Ulster County Soil and Water Conservation District the sum of $91,500.00 in the 2020 Ulster County Budget; and

WHEREAS, pursuant to County Law Section 223 (1), in order to receive such funds, the Ulster County Soil and Water Conservation District must submit to the Ulster County Legislature a verified accounting of disbursements to be undertaken, and to the Legislative Financial Analyst and the Ulster County Commissioner of Finance, a Memorandum of Receipt signed by the principal officer; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED, the Chair of the Ulster County Legislature is hereby authorized to execute an agreement in the amount of $91,500.00, to be expended towards the costs associated with operations of the Ulster County Soil and Water Conservation District, in the form as filed with the Clerk of the Ulster County Legislature or as modified with the approval of the County Attorney, Counsel to the County Legislature, Chair of the County Legislature, and the Chair and Deputy Chair of the Energy and Environment Committee; and, be it further

RESOLVED, that the Comptroller and/or any and all officers of the County of Ulster, their agents and repre­sentatives, shall be allowed full access upon reason­able notice and at reasonable times to the books, papers, records and premises of the Ulster County Soil and Water Conservation District during the period that this Resolution is in effect for the purpose of ascertaining the manner in which the above sum of money is being used or applied; and, be it further

RESOLVED, that the above organization agrees to comply with all applicable Federal, State and local regula­tions including, in particular, any forbidding discrimina­tion by such organization,

and move its adoption.

ADOPTED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:

AYES:                       NOES:        

Postponed in Committee: Energy and Environment on March 2, 2020

Passed Committee: Energy and Environment on April 13, 2020

Postponed in Committee: Ways and Means on April 21, 2020

Passed Committee: Ways and Means on ____________.

FINANCIAL IMPACT:

$91,500.00 – AS APPROPRIATED IN THE 2020 ULSTER COUNTY BUDGET