Referred to: The Health, Human Services and Housing Committee (Chairman Uchitelle and Legislators Corcoran, Erner, Lopez, Nolan, Petit, and Stewart), The Public Works, Capital Projects and Transportation Committee (Chairwoman Petit and Legislators Erner, Fabiano, Litts, and Nolan), and The Ways and Means Committee (Chairman Gavaris and Legislators Cahill, Criswell, Roberts, and Ronk)

Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, John Gavaris, and Deputy Chair Kenneth J. Ronk, Jr. offer the following:

WHEREAS, this resolution has been submitted at the request of the County Executive on behalf of the Department of Finance, Division of Recovery and Resilience; and

WHEREAS, the Ulster County Capital Program for 2023-2028 includes Capital Project No. 645 entitled, “21 Elizabeth Street Renovations” which anticipates $500,000 of outside, non-state funding to support Capital Project No. 645; and

WHEREAS, the City of Kingston (the “City”) and the County of Ulster (the “County”) desire to enter into an Intermunicipal Agreement (IMA) where the County will be a subrecipient of $500,000.00 of the City’s awarded American Rescue Plan Act – Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (SLFRF) to support Capital Project No. 645; and

WHEREAS the County will be responsible under the IMA for administering a program to complete the development and renovation of the site and building at 21 Elizabeth Street, Kingston, NY, a County owned property (hereinafter ‘the Property”), into an emergency housing shelter for homeless families; now, therefore be it

RESOLVED, the Chair of the Ulster County Legislature is hereby authorized to execute the Intermunicipal Agreement with the City of Kingston to partially fund the renovation of the Property into an emergency homeless housing shelter, 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: Health, Human Services and Housing on ______________. 

Passed Committee: Public Works, Capital Projects and Transportation on ______________.

Passed Committee: Ways and Means on ______________. 

FINANCIAL IMPACT:

$500,000.00 – ANTICIPATED COUNTY CAPITAL PROJECT REVENUES