Resolution No. 253.1

Appointing Member To The Recycling Oversight Committee

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Parent: 
Resolution No. 253
Status: 
Adopted

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Referred to:  The Energy, Environment and Sustainability Committee (Chairwoman Greene and Legislators Hansut, Erner, Maloney, and Stewart)

 

Legislator Laura Petit offers the following:

 

            WHEREAS, Section 26 of Local Law Number 8 of 1991, The “Ulster County Mandatory Source Separation And Recycling Law,” created a Recycling Oversight Committee (ROC); and

 

WHEREAS, Section 26 of Local Law Number 8 of 1991, after subsequent amendments was codified into §304-31 of the Code of the County of Ulster; and

 

WHEREAS, pursuant to §304-31 of the Code of the County of Ulster, the ROC shall consist of one member of the Resource Recovery Agency designated by the Agency Board to serve as a non-voting, ex-officio member and not more than eleven (11) voting members to be appointed by the County Legislature, consisting of an appointee from the following:

 

(1) Town Supervisor’s Association;

(2) City of Kingston;

(3) Energy and Environment Committee of the Legislature;

(4) Ulster County Environmental Management Council;

(5) Commercial Waste Hauling Industry;

(6) Municipal Recycling Coordinators;

(7) Commercial or Institutional Sector;

(8) Multi Family Dwelling Interest; and

 

WHEREAS, further pursuant to §304-31, “Additionally the County Legislature shall appoint three (3) at-large community members with interest and concern which may include students but shall not include members that fall into previously mentioned categories;” and

 

WHEREAS, members of the ROC have been appointed pursuant to Resolution No. 382 of November 20, 2018, Resolution No. 94 of March 19, 2019, Resolution No. 173 of May 21, 2019, and Resolution No. 227 of June 16, 2020, Resolution No. 156 of June 15, 2021, and Resolution No. 19 of February 15, 2022; and

 

WHEREAS, the member previously appointed to the ROC to represent the Ulster County Environmental Management Council, Margot Becker, has been appointed to the UC Resource Recovery Board of Directors, creating a vacancy on the Recycling Oversight Committee in the seat representing the Ulster County Environmental Management Council; now, therefore be it

 

 

RESOLVED, upon recommendation of the Energy, Environment and Sustainability Committee, the following individual is hereby appointed to the Ulster County Recycling Oversight Committee for a 3-year term effective immediately and expiring in 2025:

 

Appointee representing the Ulster County Environmental Management Council – TBD

 

and move its adoption.

 

 

ADOPTED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:

 

AYES:                       NOES:    

 

 

Passed Committee: Energy, Environment and Sustainability on ________________.

 

 

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Updated: July 11, 2022