Referred to:  The Ways and Means Committee (Chairman Gavaris and Legislators Archer, Bartels, Haynes, Maio, Parete, Ronk, and Walter)

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

WHEREAS, the growth of the short-term rental marketplace has left local municipalities scrambling to understand the scope and size of this marketplace within their jurisdiction, while attempting to address health and safety concerns and quality of life issues determined through local zoning and code enforcement; and

WHEREAS, in an effort to assist local municipalities, the County has offered to provide the City of Kingston (the City) with an inventory of all properties within the City that have been identified as advertising short term rentals; and

WHEREAS, the County and the City now desire to enter into an agreement for the sharing of the inventory information; now, therefore be it

RESOLVED, that the Chair of the Ulster County Legislature is hereby authorized to execute an intermunicipal agreement for the sharing of inventory information and any related amendments with the City, in the form as filed with the Clerk of the Legislature or as modified with the approval of the County Attorney,

and move its adoption.

ADOPTED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:

AYES:                         NOES:              

Passed Committee: Ways and Means on __________________.

FINANCIAL IMPACT:

NONE