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 $30,000.00 in the 2020 Ulster County Budget for the Hudson River Maritime Museum for upgrading the building and grounds of the Hudson River Maritime Museum, associated with the Rondout Riverport Phase 2; and

WHEREAS, in order to receive such funds, the Hudson River Maritime Museum 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 Hudson River Maritime Museum will receive payments totaling the not-to exceed amount of $30,000.00, in accordance with the terms specified in an agreement with the County of Ulster and the Hudson River Maritime Museum, and no later than December 31, 2020, the Hudson River Maritime Museum 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 $30,000.00, to fund a portion of the Consolidated Funding Application grant (Rondout Riverport Phase 2) to transform the Hudson River Maritime Museum campus into a green museum, 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 Hudson River Maritime Museum, 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 ______________.

Passed Committee: Ways and Means on ________________.

FINANCIAL IMPACT:

$30,000.00 – AS APPROPRIATED IN THE 2020 ULSTER COUNTY BUDGET