Referred to: The Ways and Means Committee (Chairman Gerentine and Legislators

Bartels, Belfiglio, Briggs, Maio, Maloney, Provenzano, and Rodriguez)

Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, Richard A. Gerentine, and Deputy

Chairman Tracey A. Bartels offer the following:

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

behalf of the Department of Finance; and

WHEREAS, the Ulster County Commissioner of Finance is required, pursuant

to Section 1330(4) of the New York State Real Property Tax Law, to pay to school

districts (not including city school districts), the amounts of school taxes that are

unpaid as of a date certain deadline; and

WHEREAS, the date certain deadline for payment of school taxes for the

2014-2015 school year is November 21, 2014; and

WHEREAS, all school tax payments not received by the end of the business

day on November 21, 2014 must be reported as unpaid; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED, that the Ulster County Legislature hereby authorizes the

amounts of unpaid school taxes for the 2014-2015 school year be paid by the Ulster

County Commissioner of Finance to those officers charged by law with the custody

of school district monies, and together with seven percent of the combined amount of

principal plus accrued interest, be re-levied via the 2015 General Tax upon the real

property upon which the school taxes were originally imposed, so long as the

accounts of unpaid school taxes for the 2014-2015 school year have been filed with

the Clerk of the Ulster County Legislature prior to the re-levying of the unpaid taxes;

and, be it further

RESOLVED, that when such re-levy (the unpaid tax, accrued interest, plus

seven percent on the sum of both) is collected, the same shall be returned to the

Ulster County Commissioner of Finance to reimburse the County for the amount

advanced and for the expense of collection,

and move its adoption.

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Resolution No. 364 October 21, 2014

Accepting The Accounting Of Unpaid School Taxes For The 2014-

2015 School Year, Directing Payment To The School Districts And

Directing Re-Levying Pursuant To The Real Property Tax Law –

Department Of Finance

ADOPTED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:

AYES: 23 NOES: 0

Passed Committee: Ways and Means on October 15, 2014

FINANCIAL IMPACT:

NONE

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 21st Day of October, 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 22nd Day of

October 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

22nd Day of October, 2014. 31st Day of October, 2014.

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

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

Ulster County Legislature