Referred to: The Law Enforcement and Public Safety Committee (Chairman Briggs

and Legislators Gregorius, Loughran, Maio, and Ronk), and The Ways and Means

Committee (Chairman Gerentine and Legislators Bartels, Belfiglio, Briggs, Maio,

Maloney, Provenzano and Rodriguez)

Chairman of the Law Enforcement and Public Safety Committee, Thomas J. Briggs,

and Deputy Chairman Kenneth Ronk offer the following:

WHEREAS, this resolution has been submitted by the District Attorney; and

WHEREAS, the County of Ulster and the State of New York had previously

entered into an agreement for the Aid to Prosecution Program, in the amount of

$56,700.00, for the purpose of improving the prosecution of repeat violent and

serious felony offenders, the term of which expired March 31, 2014; and

WHEREAS, the State of New York has now appropriated funds to continue

such program for an additional year, in the amount of $56,700.00, for the period

April 1, 2014 through March 31, 2015; and

WHEREAS, the District Attorney is requesting that the Chairman of the

Ulster County Legislature be authorized to execute an agreement, and any

amendments thereto, in the amount of $56,700.00 with the NYS Division of Criminal

Justice Services to renew the Aid to Prosecution Program; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED, that the Chairman of the Ulster County Legislature is hereby

authorized to execute an agreement, and any amendments thereto, in the amount of

$56,700.00 for the Aid to Prosecution Program with the New York State Division of

Criminal Justice Services, in the form as filed with the Clerk of the Legislature, or as

modified with the approval of the County Attorney and Chairman of the Ulster

County Legislature; and, be it further

RESOLVED, if funding for this program is eliminated, the program will be

eliminated as well,

and move its adoption.

 ADOPTED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:

 AYES: 22 NOES: 0

 (Absent: Legislator Fabiano) 

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Resolution No. 287 August 19, 2014

Authorizing The Chairman Of The Ulster County Legislature To

Execute An Agreement With The New York State Division Of

Criminal Justice Services For The Aid To Prosecution Program –

District Attorney

Passed Committee: Law Enforcement and Public Safety on August 4, 2014

Passed Committee: Ways and Means on August 6, 2014

FINANCIAL IMPACT:

$56,700.00 – BUDGETED 2014 APPROPRIATION DOLLARS

$56,700.00 – BUDGETED 2014 STATE REVENUE DOLLARS

STATE OF NEW YORK

 ss:

COUNTY OF ULSTER

This is to certify that I, the undersigned Clerk of the Legislature of the County of Ulster have compared the

foregoing resolution with the original resolution now on file in the office of said clerk, and which was adopted by said

Legislature on the 19th Day of August, 2014, and that the same is a true and correct transcript of said resolution and of the

whole thereof.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of the County of Ulster this 20th Day of August

in the year Two Thousand and Fourteen.

|s| Victoria A. Fabella

Victoria A. Fabella, Clerk

Ulster County Legislature

Submitted to the County Executive this Approved by the County Executive this

21st Day of August, 2014. 28th Day of August, 2014.

|s| Victoria A. Fabella |s| Michael P. Hein

Victoria A. Fabella, Clerk Michael P. Hein, County Executive

Ulster County Legislature