Referred to: The Economic Development, Tourism, Housing, Planning and Transit Committee (Chairman Cahill and Legislators Archer, Corcoran, Delaune, Litts, Maio, and Uchitelle), and The Ways and Means Committee (Chairwoman Archer and Legislators Bartels, Gavaris, Haynes, Maio, Ronk, and Walter)

Chairman of the Legislature, David B. Donaldson, offers the following:

WHEREAS, the Ulster County Legislature has appropriated the sum of $10,000.00 in the 2020 Ulster County Budget for the D&H Canal Historical Society to support the creation of a Visitor Center at the DePuy Canal House; and

WHEREAS, in order to receive such funds, the D&H Canal Historical Society must submit to the Ulster County Legislature a verified accounting of disbursements to be undertaken, and to the Legislative Financial Analyst and the Commissioner of Finance, a Memorandum of Receipt signed by the principal officer; and

WHEREAS, the D&H Canal Historical Society will receive payments totaling the not-to exceed amount of $10,000.00, in accordance with the terms specified in an agreement with the County of Ulster and the D&H Canal Historical Society, and no later than December 31, 2020, the D&H Canal Historical Society shall submit a certified accounting of expenditures to the Legislative Financial Analyst and Commissioner of Finance; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED, that the Chair of the Ulster County Legislature is hereby authorized to execute an agreement in the amount of $10,000.00, to offset costs associated with the design development processes for interpretive elements and exhibits on the exterior of the DePuy Canal House, 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 Economic Development, Tourism, Housing, Planning and Transit Committee; and, be it further

RESOLVED, 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 D&H Canal Historical Society, 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 moves its adoption.

ADOPTED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:

AYES:                       NOES:   

Passed Committee: Economic Development, Tourism, Housing, Planning and Transit Committee on March 3, 2020

Postponed in Committee: Ways and Means for One Week on March 10, 2020

Passed Committee: Ways and Means on March 17, 2020

Reconsidered and Referred back to Ways and Means Committee at Legislative Session on April 28, 2020

Passed Committee: Ways and Means on ______________.

FINANCIAL IMPACT:

$10,000.00 – AS APPROPRIATED IN THE 2020 ULSTER COUNTY BUDGET