Referred to: The Legislative Programs, Education and Community Services

Committee (Chairman Donaldson and Legislators Collins, Delaune, Eckert, Haynes,

Wawro and Woltman), and The Ways and Means Committee (Chairman Gerentine

and Legislators Archer, Bartels, Lopez, Maio, James Maloney, Joseph Maloney, and

Petit)

Chairman of the Legislative Programs, Education and Community Services

Committee, David B. Donaldson, and Deputy Chair Heidi Haynes, offer the

following:

WHEREAS, Ulster County has recognized the responsibility to provide

payment for burial and cremation services for indigent veterans; and

WHEREAS, Ulster County acknowledges the immeasurable contributions our

veterans have made; and

WHE

WHEREAS, the County’s Veteran Services Agency desires to apply for

reimbursement from NYSDVA for the expenses of indigent veteran funerals and

burials in an amount not to exceed two thousand dollars per burial; now, therefore, be

it

RESOLVED, that the Ulster County Legislature hereby authorizes the

Director of the Ulster County Veteran Services Agency to apply for reimbursement

from NYSDVA for the expenses of indigent veteran funerals and burials in an

amount not to exceed two thousand dollars per burial, pursuant to Section 148 of the

New York State General Municipal Law; and, be it further

RESOLVED, that the Ulster County Legislature hereby authorizes the

Director of the Ulster County Veteran Services Agency to sign all applications,

forms, and other documents required by NYSDVA for reimbursement of claims for

indigent veteran burial,

and move its adoption.

ADOPTED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:

AYES: 20 NOES: 0

(Absent: Legislators Bartels, Collins, and Eckert)

Passed Committee: Ways and Means on November 13, 2018

Passed Committee: Legislative Programs, Education and Community Services on

November 19, 2018

FINANCIAL IMPACT:

$60,000.00 – ANTICIPATED 2019 STATE AID

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 20th Day of November in the year Two Thousand

and Eighteen, 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 October

in the year Two Thousand and Eighteen.

|s| Victoria A. Fabella

Victoria A. Fabella, Clerk

Ulster County Legislature

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

21st Day of November, 2018. 29th Day of November, 2018.

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

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

Ulster County Legislature