Referred to: The Legislative Programs, Education, and Community Services

Committee (Chairman Wawro and Legislators Berky, Delaune, Donaldson, and

Lopez) and The Ways and Means Committee (Chairman Gerentine and Legislators

Allen, Bartels, Belfiglio, Briggs, Maio, and Maloney)

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

Chairman Thomas J. Briggs offer the following:

WHEREAS, Ulster County has completed the S.T.R.I.V.E. capital project

renovation of the former Sophie Finn Elementary School at 94 Mary’s Avenue in

Kingston for use as a the Kingston Center of SUNY Ulster; and

WHEREAS, Ulster County was awarded in 2013 a $1.5 million reimbursable

capital project grant by the New York State Urban Development Corporation d/b/a/

Empire State Development (“ESD”), for which the County executed an Incentive

Proposal Agreement to accept the grant from ESD on May 14, 2013 pursuant to

Resolution No. 97 of April 16, 2013; and

WHEREAS, following the completion of the S.T.R.I.V.E. capital project and

documentation of such, ESD granted final approval to the S.T.R.I.V.E. project on

October 15, 2015 and provided to the County for approval the final Grant

Disbursement Agreement that will allow the County to seek reimbursement for the

$1.5 million in awarded ESD funding; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED, the Chairman of the Ulster County Legislature is hereby

authorized to execute a Grant Disbursement Agreement, and any amendments

thereto, with the New York State Urban Development Corporation d/b/a/ Empire

State Development for grant funding in the form as filed with the Clerk of the Ulster

County Legislature, or as modified with the approval of the County Attorney and

Counsel to the County Legislature,

and move its adoption.

ADOPTED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:

AYES: 23 NOES: 0

Passed Committee: Legislative Programs, Education, and Community Services

Committee on January 20, 2016

Passed Committee: Ways and Means on January 26, 2016

FINANCAL IMPACT:

NONE (REVENUE PREVIOUSLY RECORDED)

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 26th Day of January in the year Two Thousand and

Sixteen, 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 29th Day of January

in the year Two Thousand and Sixteen.

|s| Victoria A. Fabella

Victoria A. Fabella, Clerk

Ulster County Legislature

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

29th Day of January, 2016. 5

th Day of February, 2016.

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

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

Ulster County Legislature