Referred to: 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 J. Ronk offer the following:

WHEREAS, this resolution has been submitted by the County Executive on

behalf of the Department of Probation; and

WHEREAS, the Department of Probation administers the Crime Victim

Assistance Program which aid victims and witnesses of crime; and

WHEREAS, as part of the Crime Victim Assistance Program, Crime Victim

Assistance Counselors interact with and help individuals who have been affected by

crime through a difficult period of time; and

WHEREAS, the Department of Probation has been awarded a grant which

provides funding for the creation

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Resolution No. 322 September 23, 2014

Creating One Full Time Position And Amending The 2014 Ulster

County Budget – Department Of Probation

and be it further,

RESOLVED, that if federal and state funding under the Victim and Witness

Assistance Grant Program is eliminated, the position will be eliminated as well,

and move its adoption.

 ADOPTED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:

 AYES: 20 NOES: 0

 (Absent: Legislators Litts, Loughran, and Maloney)

Passed Committee: Law Enforcement and Public Safety on September 8, 2014

Passed Committee: Ways and Means as amended on September 17, 2014

FINANCIAL IMPACT:

$12,585.00 – 2014 BUDGETED APPROPRIATION DOLLARS

$ 2,940.00 – 2014 COUNTY DOLLARS

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Resolution No. 322 September 23, 2014

Creating One Full Time Position And Amending The 2014 Ulster

County Budget – Department Of Probation

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 23rd Day of September, 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 25th Day of

September 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

25th Day of September, 2014. 2

nd Day of October, 2014.

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

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

Ulster County Legislature