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County to accept NYSERDA reimbursement for GovOps energy work; hires firm to manage contaminated-soil remediation at Emergency Communications Building site
Summary
Committee approved a $2 million NYSERDA funding agreement to reimburse energy-related capital work at the county's government operations/emergency communications site and separately approved a roughly $197,872 engineering contract with CT Veil Associates to oversee contaminated-soil mitigation and community air monitoring at the same site.
The committee approved a New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) funding agreement that will reimburse Ulster County for energy-related capital work at the government operations/emergency communications building, and it approved a separate engineering contract to manage contaminated-soil mitigation at the project site.
Director Doyle, Department of Planning, described the NYSERDA agreement as covering the energy infrastructure for the government operations center. "That's why so there's no cost to the county with respect to this. It it would be reimbursable for the work that we're doing, specifically as it relates to the solar facilities and the geothermal facilities and their electric components," Doyle said.
Committee members sought clarification on project identifiers and contract numbers; staff said some project and contract numbers remained placeholders in the draft materials but would be confirmed before ways and means.
Separately, the committee approved a $197,872.50 contract with CT Veil Associates to provide on-site engineering, testing and community air monitoring during excavation and remediation of contaminated soil at the Emergency Communications Building site. Director Doyle said the firm had worked on the site since 2017 and that the work—which includes stockpiling, testing and community air monitoring stations—would likely take six to eight weeks.
Doyle said the county was through its comment period on the interim remediation plan and was completing a final revision to file with regulators. The committee approved the CT Veil contract and acknowledged that staff would assign a project number and finalize contract paperwork before execution.
