Referred to: The Legislative Programs, Education and Community Services Committee (Chairman Delaune and Legislators Corcoran, Criswell, Parete, and Wawro), and The Ways and Means Committee (Chairwoman Archer and Legislators Bartels, Gavaris, Haynes, Maio, Ronk, and Walter)

Chairman of the Legislative Programs, Education and Community Services Committee, James Delaune, and Deputy Chair Thomas Corcoran, offer the following:

WHEREAS, the Ulster County Legislature has appropriated the sum of $28,750.00 in the 2020 Ulster County Budget for the Ulster County Community Action Committee, Inc., for the providing of services for which grants are made by the Federal Office of Community Services; and

          WHEREAS, in order to receive such funds, the Ulster County Community Action Committee, Inc., 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 Ulster County Community Action Committee, Inc., will receive payments totaling the not to exceed amount of $28,750.00, in accordance with the terms specified in an agreement with the County of Ulster and the Ulster County Community Action Committee, Inc., and no later than December 31, 2020, Ulster County Community Action Committee, Inc. 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 $28,750.00, for services provided to Ulster County residents and their families who are financially disadvantaged, elderly, and/or mentally or physically disabled, to help them to become self-sufficient, 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 Legislative Programs, Education and Community Services Committee; and, be it further

RESOLVED, that as part of the agreement, 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 Ulster County Community Action Committee, Inc., 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:   

Passed Committee: Legislative Programs, Education and Community Services 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:

$28,750.00 - AS APPROPRIATED IN THE 2020 ULSTER COUNTY BUDGET