Referred to: The Energy, Environment and Sustainability Committee (Chairman Hewitt and Legislators Greene, Litts, Donaldson, Nolan, Stewart, and Walls), The Public Works, Capital Projects and Transportation Committee (Chair Nolan and Legislators Donaldson, Kovacs, Litts, and McCollough), and The Ways and Means Committee (Chairman Gavaris and Legislators Collins, Hansut, Kovacs, Nolan, and Roberts)

Chairman of the Energy, Environment and Sustainability Committee, Chris Hewitt, Deputy Chair Richard Walls, and Legislator Corcoran offer the following:

          WHEREAS, this resolution has been submitted at the request of the County Executive on behalf of the Planning Department; and

WHEREAS, the City of Kingston has requested that the County share the cost of cleaning up petroleum contamination discovered on the border of the City of Kingston’s Dietz Stadium and Ulster County Department of Public Works properties while constructing the Dietz Stadium Improvements Project; and

WHERAS,  Capital Project No. 629  - Ulster County Brownfields Program has been amended to include cleanup of funding from contamination associated with County owned properties; and

WHEREAS, the County and the City of Kingston desire to enter into an Intermunicipal Agreement with the City to provide Forty-six Thousand Three Hundred and Eighty ($46,380.00) Dollars of funds from Ulster County’s Capital Project No. 629, for the purpose of reimbursing the City for the cost of cleanup at the City’s Dietz Stadium property that may be associated with the adjoining Ulster County Highway Garage site; now, therefore be it

RESOLVED, the Ulster County Legislature hereby determines that the proposed action that the proposed action is a Type II Action under 6 NYCRR Part 617 of the State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA) and does not pose a risk of significant environmental impact; and, be it further

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 cleanup costs on the border of Dietz Stadium and the Ulster County Department of Public Works property 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:  Energy, Environment and Sustainability on ______________.

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

Passed Committee:  Ways and Means on ______________.

FINANCIAL IMPACT:

$46,380.00 - BUDGETED CAPITAL APPROPRIATION DOLLARS