Referred to: The Public Works and Capital Projects Committee (Chairman Fabiano

and Legislators Greene, Litts, Loughran, and Maloney)

Legislators James F. Maloney and Dean J. Fabiano offer the following:

WHEREAS, pursuant to Resolution No. 370 dated October 21, 2014, the

Ulster County Legislature established a policy for the naming of county-owned

assets; and

WHEREAS, the Sawkill Road Bridge over the Sawkill Creek located in the

Town of Ulster is a county-owned asset; and

WHEREAS, on December 8, 2016 at the age of forty-eight, Town of Ulster

Police Chief Anthony “Tony” Cruise passed away after dedicating his life to public

service and to our community; and

WHEREAS, on December 15, 2016, the Town Board of the Town of Ulster

unanimously adopted a resolution requesting that the County of Ulster name the

Sawkill Road Bridge the “Chief Anthony E. Cruise Memorial Bridge;” and

WHEREAS, pursuant to the policy naming county-owned assets, this matter

shall be referred to the Public Works and Capital Projects Committee, and a public

hearing shall be scheduled to insure public input on the matter is considered prior to a

vote by the full legislative body on a resolution naming the asset; now, therefore, be

it

RESOLVED, that a public hearing will be held on Tuesday, March 7, 2017 at

6:15 PM in the Legislative Chambers, Ulster County Office Building, 6th Floor, 244

Fair Street, Kingston, New York on naming the Sawkill Road Bridge over the

Sawkill Creek located in the Town of Ulster the “Chief Anthony E. Cruise Memorial

Bridge;” and, be it further

RESOLVED, that the Clerk of the Ulster County Legislature shall cause a

legal notice of said public hearing to be published according to law,

and move its adoption. 

ADOPTED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:

AYES: 19 NOES: 0

(Absent: Legislators Gerentine, Maio, Roberts and

 Ronk)

Passed Committee: Public Works and Capital Projects on February 1, 2017

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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 February in the year Two Thousand and

Seventeen, 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

February in the year Two Thousand and Seventeen.

|s| Victoria A. Fabella

Victoria A. Fabella, Clerk

Ulster County Legislature