Referred to: The Energy and Environment Committee (Chairman R. Parete and

Legislators Bartels, Heppner, Lapp, and Wawro), and The Ways and Means

Committee (Chairman Gerentine and Legislators Allen, Bartels, Belfiglio, Briggs,

Maio, and Maloney)

Chairman of the Energy and Environment Committee, Legislator Richard A. Parete,

and Deputy Chairman Tracey A. Bartels offers the following:

WHEREAS, the Ulster County Legislature appropriated to the Ulster County

Soil and Water Conservation District the sum of $91,500.00 in the 2016 Ulster

County Budget; and

WHEREAS, pursuant to County Law Section 223 (1), in order to receive such

funds, the Ulster County Soil and Water Conservation District must submit to the

Ulster County Legislature a verified accounting of disbursements to be undertaken,

and to the Ulster County Commissioner of Finance, a Memorandum of Receipt

signed by the principal officer; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED, that the Commissioner of Finance is hereby authorized and

directed to pay the Chairman of the District Directors of the Ulster County Soil and

Water Conservation District, the sum of $91,500.00 to be used by the Directors as

authorized pursuant to said Section 223 (1) of the County Law; and, be it further

RESOLVED, that the Ulster County Soil and Water Conservation District

shall render a true and accurate report of its operations for the year 2015 prior to the

release of any authorized funding for 2016; and, be it further

RESOLVED, that no County money be paid to the District until a

Memorandum of Receipt signed by the Chairman of the District Directors, agreeing

to comply with the terms of this Resolution, is delivered to the Commissioner of

Finance; and, be it further

RESOLVED, that said Ulster County Soil and Water Conservation District

shall render a verified account of disbursements with certified vouchers attached and

refund any unused amount on or before the 15th day of January 2017; and, be it

further

RESOLVED, that the Ulster County Soil and Water Conservation District

shall render a true and accurate report of its operations for the year 2016 on or before

January 15, 2017 with the Clerk of the Ulster County Legislature containing a true

and accurate account of all receipts and expenditures; and, be it further 

RESOLVED, that the Comptroller and/or any and all officers of the County of

Ulster, their agents and representatives, shall be allowed full access upon reasonable

notice and at reasonable times to the books, papers, records and premises of the

Ulster County Soil and Water Conservation District during the period that this

Resolution is in effect for the purpose of ascertaining the manner in which the above

sum of money is being used or applied; and, be it further

RESOLVED, that the above organization agrees to comply with all applicable

Federal, State and local regulations including, in particular, any forbidding

discrimination by such organization,

and move its adoption.

ADOPTED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:

AYES: 22 NOES: 0

(Legislator Lopez left at 7:19 PM)

Passed Committee: Energy and Environment on March 7, 2016

Passed Committee: Ways and Means on March 8, 2016

FINANCIAL IMPACT:

$91,500.00 – AS APPROPRIATED IN THE 2016 ULSTER COUNTY BUDGET 

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 15th Day of March 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 17th Day of March

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

17th Day of March, 2016. 23rd Day of March, 2016.

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

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

Ulster County Legislature