Referred to: The Law Enforcement and Public Safety Committee (Chairman Briggs

and Legislators Fabiano, Lapp, Maio, and Rodriguez), and The Ways and Means

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

Maio, and Maloney)

Chairman of the Law Enforcement and Public Safety Committee, Thomas J. Briggs,

and Deputy Chairman Ronald G. Lapp, Jr. offer the following:

WHEREAS, the District Attorney has requested that the Chairman of the

Ulster County Legislature be authorized to sign a contract with the New York State

Division of Criminal Justice for the purpose of participating in a twelve month joint

county crime reduction program, from July 1, 2017 thru June 30, 2018, designated as

the Gun Involved Violence Intervention (GIVE) Initiative; and

WHEREAS, GIVE is an expanded crime reduction program related to

criminal activity pertaining to the use of drugs and gang violence and will involve the

Ulster County Offices of the Sheriff and District Attorney and Probation; and

WHEREAS, the GIVE initiative provides funding in the following amounts:

$77,725.00 to the District Attorney's Office, $22,200.00 to the Sheriff’s Office, and

$35,000.00 to the Probation Department; now, therefore, be it

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

authorized to execute all contracts, and any amendments thereto, with the New York

State Division of Criminal Justice Services for the purpose of Ulster County's

participation in the GIVE initiative, for the period from July 1, 2017 and ending June

30, 2018, in the form as filed with the Clerk of the Ulster County Legislature or as

modified with the approval of the County Attorney in consultation with the Chairman

of the Legislature and the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Law Enforcement

and Public Safety Committee; and, be it further

RESOLVED, that if funding for this program is eliminated, the

program/position will be eliminated as well,

and move its adoption.

ADOPTED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:

AYES: 21 NOES: 0

(Absent: Legislators Delaune and Maloney) 

Passed Committee: Law Enforcement and Public Safety on July 6, 2017

Postponed in Committee for One Week: Ways and Means on July 11, 2017

Passed Committee: Ways and Means on July 18, 2017

FINANCIAL IMPACT:

$134,925.00 — BUDGETED 2017 STATE REVENUE DOLLARS

$134,925.00 — BUDGETED 2017 APPROPRIATION DOLLARS

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