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Ulster County updates Ag Society license, swaps lawn‑maintenance credit for composting credit
Summary
County officials told the committee they have revised the Ag Society license to replace a historical up‑to‑$10,000 lawn‑maintenance credit with a maximum $5,000 credit tied to organic food diversion, aligning the agreement with the county's food‑waste prevention law.
Ulster County Deputy Executive Amanda Laval updated the Public Works and Capital Projects Committee on Dec. 8 about revisions to the Ag Society license agreement. After several meetings with the Ag Society, the county proposed a new license that removes a historical lawn‑maintenance credit and replaces it with a credit tied to organic food‑diversion activities.
Laval said that the prior license calculation "allowed the Ag Society to have up to a $10,000 credit for lawn maintenance." The new version replaces that lawn‑maintenance credit with "a credit towards organic food diversion instead," with a maximum credit of $5,000 per year for food‑waste‑diversion activities, she said. The change is intended to align the license with the county's food‑waste prevention law and to set clearer expectations for the Ag Society's activities on the fairgrounds campus.
Laval said final language tweaks remain and that the county expects to provide the final license draft to the Ag Society this week. Committee members said the change sounded like an improvement and confirmed that the Ag Society will continue required maintenance activities on the campus but will no longer receive the lawn‑maintenance credit as a financial offset.
What’s next: The county will deliver the final license language to the Ag Society and continue to clarify responsibilities and financial calculations in the agreement.
