Referred to: The Economic Development, Tourism, Housing, Planning and Transit

Committee (Chairman Maloney and Legislators Berky, Delaune, Lapp, Litts, Maio

and Rodriguez)

Deputy Chairman of the Economic Development, Tourism, Housing, Planning, and

Transit Committee, Hector Rodriguez, and Legislators Berky and Delaune offer the

following:

WHEREAS, the Ulster County Legislature (the Legislature) is the policy

making body on behalf of the people of Ulster County; and

WHEREAS, the Legislature maintains oversight committees in concert with

the County Executive; and

WHEREAS, the Legislature has previously approved funding for the Office of

Economic Development and the Economic Development Agency; and

WHEREAS, the Legislature is desirous to establish criteria to measure

economic success or failure from these efforts; and

WHEREAS, the Legislature has determined that reporting criteria would be

valuable in determining future Economic Development funding levels; now,

therefore be it

RESOLVED, the Ulster County Legislature will require reporting from the

Office of Economic Development every quarter, on the following areas in order to

create a baseline by which to measure the County’s economic development efforts:

• DBA filings

• Commercial Referrals to the Planning Board

• Unemployment Rate

• Private Sector Jobs

• Median Wages

• Home Sales

• Housing Starts

• County Property Tax Levy

• Sales Tax

• Occupancy "Bed" Tax

• I LOVE NY Numbers

• Census Data; 

and, be it further

RESOLVED, the Legislature may ask for additional information to be

included in these reports and may be added to the baseline assessment of the Office

of Economic Development and the Economic Development Agency,

and move its adoption.

ADOPTED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:

AYES: 21 NOES: 0

(Absent: Legislators Delaune and Maloney)

Postponed in Committee: Economic Development, Tourism, Housing, Planning and

Transit on April 4, 2017

Postponed in Committee: Economic Development, Tourism, Housing, Planning and

Transit on May 2, 2017

Postponed in Committee: Economic Development, Tourism, Housing, Planning and

Transit on June 6, 2017

Passed Committee: Economic Development, Tourism, Housing, Planning and Transit

as amended on July 12, 2017

FINANCIAL IMPACT:

NONE

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 18th Day of July 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 19th Day of July in

the year Two Thousand and Seventeen.

|s| Victoria A. Fabella

Victoria A. Fabella, Clerk

Ulster County Legislature

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

19th Day of July, 2017. 20th Day of July, 2017.

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

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

Ulster County Legislature