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

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

Legislators Jeanette Provenzano and Richard Gerentine and Legislator Wishnick

offer the following:

 WHEREAS, Senate Bill 3812B and Assembly Bill A7713 have been

introduced in the 2013-2014 Legislative Session which authorizes counties to impose

taxes describe at their current rate without having to seek reauthorization from the

State every two years; and

 WHEREAS, the Ulster County Legislature has requested, on a biannual basis,

State legislation allowing the County to continue the additional sales and

compensating use tax rate of 1% (one percent) for an additional twenty-four months;

and

 WHEREAS, this request is similarly made by fifty-two (52) counties and five

(5) cities throughout New York State; and

WHEREAS, these requests have placed unnecessary administrative

procedures and burdens on what has become routine requests for both the State and

local governments, incurring additional time and expense by staff; and

 WHEREAS, Ulster County recently experienced the additional administrative

burdens and fiscal impacts when a proper and timely home rule request for

legislation is delayed and/or withheld during a given New York State Legislative

session; and

 WHEREAS, this legislation will provide the necessary flexibility for counties

and cities to secure needed revenues as local requirements dictate, without the need

for special State legislation while minimizing the compliance problems for local

businesses required to collect sales and use taxes; now, therefore be it

 RESOLVED, that the Ulster County Legislature urges the New York State

Governor and Legislature to ensure the passage of Senate Bill 3812B and Assembly

Bill A7713A within this legislative session; and, be it further 

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Resolution No. 114 April 15, 2014

Supporting The Passage Of New York State Senate Bill 3812B And

Assembly Bill A7713A, An Act To Amend The State Tax Law To

Permanently Authorize Certain Counties, Cities And School

Districts To Impose Up To A Four Percent Rate Of Sales And

Compensating Use Taxes

RESOLVED, the Clerk of the Ulster County Legislature shall forward copies

of this resolution to Governor Andrew Cuomo, New York State Senate Majority CoLeader Dean Skelos, Majority Co-Leader Jeff Klein, Senate Minority Leader Andrea

Stewart-Cousins, Senate Finance Committee Chair John DeFrancisco, and Senators

William Larkin, Jr., John Bonacic, Cecelia Tkaczyk and James Seward, New York

State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, Assembly Majority Leader Joseph Morelle,

Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb, Assembly Ways and Means Committee

Chair Herman Farrell, Jr. and Assemblymen Claudia Tenney, Peter Lopez, Kevin

Cahill and Frank Skartados,

and move its adoption.

 ADOPTED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:

 AYES: 22 NOES: 0

 (Absent: Legislator Briggs)

Passed Committee: Ways and Means on April 9, 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 15th Day of April, 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 16th Day of April in

the year Two Thousand and Fourteen.

|s| Victoria A. Fabella

Victoria A. Fabella, Clerk

Ulster County Legislature