The Law Enforcement and Public Safety Committee (Chairman Uchitelle and Legislators Hansut, Heppner, Hewitt, and Lopez)

Chairman of the Law Enforcement and Public Safety Committee, Abe Uchitelle, and Deputy Chair Gina Hansut offer the following:

            WHEREAS,pursuanttoSectionC-120(A)oftheUlsterCountyCharterand SectionA 40-3ofthe Administrative Code: 

“Traffic Safety Board.

A.    ThereshallbeaTrafficSafetyBoardwhichshallexerciseallpowersandduties setforthinArticle43ofVehicleandTrafficLawandheretoforeorhereafter lawfullygrantedorimposedbytheCharter,locallaw,resolutionoftheCounty Legislature, or by applicable lawnot inconsistent with the Charter.

TheTrafficSafetyBoardshallconsistof12personsappointedfortermsof threeyearsbytheCountyExecutive,subjecttotheconfirmationoftheCounty Legislature,exceptthatfourmemberswillbeinitiallyappointedtoatermof oneyearandfourmemberstoatermoftwoyears.Membersshallberesidents ofandqualifiedelectorsintheCounty.Atleastonebutnotmorethanthree membersshallberesident(s)intheCityofKingston.TheTrafficSafetyBoard shallelectannuallyaChairman,ViceChairman,andaSecretaryfromits membersasprovidedinArticle43 ofthe VehicleandTraffic Law.  The Coordinator of Traffic Safety shall serve on the Traffic Safety Board ex officio;” and

WHEREAS,theCountyExecutivehasappointedthefollowingindividuals to the Traffic Safety Board for a term to begin immediately and expire 3/31/2025:

Thomas Polk                                                         Louis Klepner

Kingston, New York 12401                                  Saugerties, New York 12477                           

 now, therefore beit

RESOLVED,thattheUlsterCountyLegislature hereby confirmsthe appointments of theabovelistedindividualsas memberstotheTrafficSafetyBoardforthetermas indicated above,

and move its adoption.

ADOPTED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:

AYES:                      NOES:             

Passed Committee:  Law Enforcement and Public Safety on ­­­­­­______________.

FINANCIAL IMPACT:

NONE