Referred to:  The American Rescue Plan Act Special Committee (Chairman Criswell and Legislators Corcoran, Levine, Lopez, and Sperry), 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 ARPA Special Committee, Peter J. Criswell, Deputy Chair Thomas Corcoran, Jr., and Legislators Nolan, Petit and Stewart 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 Legislature passed Resolution No. 289 amending and funding capital project Number 635 in the amount of two million dollars ($2,000,000) to create a program to partner with Ulster County municipalities and match up to 50% of park and recreation projects with a maximum contribution of $100,000 per municipality; and

WHEREAS, the County and the Town of Marlborough (the “Town”) desire to enter into an Intermunicipal Agreement (IMA) where the Town will be a subrecipient of One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000.00) of American Rescue Plan Act – Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (SLFRF); and

WHEREAS the Town will be responsible under the IMA for administering a program to improve the baseball fields and lighting at two parks in the Town; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED, the Chair of the Ulster County Legislature is hereby authorized to execute the Inter Municipal Agreement with the Town of Marlborough to partially fund improvements at Young’s Park and Cluett Schantz Park 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 by Committee: American Rescue Plan Act on ___________.

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

Passed by Committee: Ways and Means on ___________.

FINANCIAL IMPACT:

$100,000.00 – PREVIOUSLY APPROVED COUNTY CAPITAL FUND - ARPA APPROPRIATIONS