Majority Leader Gregorius and Minority Leader Ronk offer the following:

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

behalf of the Department of Finance; and

WHEREAS, the Commissioner of Finance has requested permission to accept

a bid for a parcel of county-owned real property as hereinafter described, which was

acquired by the County by reason of non-payment of taxes, and has previously been

offered at a public auction; and

WHEREAS, said parcel # 173 of the 2014 Public Auction, listed as .40 acres,

residential, in the Town of Shandaken, section block and lot number 4.46-2-24.200

has unpaid taxes in the amount of $15,811.52 dating back to the year 2010; and

WHEREAS, the prospective purchaser of parcel # 173 has bid $9,500.00 for

the property which is within the upset price as determined by the Real Property Tax

Service Agency; and

WHEREAS, the prospective purchasers shall be responsible for the 2014-15

school tax and all subsequent tax levies; and

WHEREAS, this conveyance constitutes a Type II action under section 4.1.5

of the County of Ulster’s State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA) Type II

List that was adopted in Resolution No. 118 on April 20, 2010; and

WHEREAS, as per section 3 of the County’s Type II List, this action does not

pose a significant potential environmental impact and may be progressed as a Type II

action in accordance with 6 NYCRR Part 617 of SEQRA; now therefore, be it.

RESOLVED, that the Ulster County Commissioner of Finance is authorized

to accept payment as follows:

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and, be it further,

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

and directed to make, execute and deliver to said bidder making payment, a quitclaim

deed conveying the interest of the County in said parcel, which quitclaim deed shall

contain the covenant that the said County of Ulster shall in no event be or become

liable for any defects in title conveyed for any cause whatsoever, and that no claim or

demand of any nature shall ever be made against the County of Ulster arising from

such sale, conveyance or the proceedings leading thereto,

and moves its adoption.

ADOPTED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:

AYES: 22 NOES: 0

(Absent: Legislator Gerentine)

Passed Committee: Committee of the Whole on January 7, 2015

FINANCIAL IMPACT:

TOTAL UNPAID TAXES: $15,811.52

TOTAL ACCEPTED BIDS: $9,500.00 

STATE OF NEW YORK

 ss:

COUNTY OF ULSTER

I, the undersigned Clerk of the Legislature of the County of Ulster, hereby certify that the foregoing resolution is

the original resolution adopted by the Ulster County Legislature on the 7th Day of January in the year Two Thousand and

Fifteen, and said resolution shall remain on file in the office of said clerk.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of the County of Ulster this 9th Day of January

in the year Two Thousand and Fifteen.

|s| Victoria A. Fabella

Victoria A. Fabella, Clerk

Ulster County Legislature

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

12th Day of January, 2015. 16th Day of January, 2015.

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

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

Ulster County Legislature