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Ulster County committee approves multiple health, youth and social‑services contracts and budget amendments
Summary
The committee adopted a package of resolutions approving state‑funded contract extensions and amendments for victim services, juvenile prevention programs, United Way partnership, immunization mini‑grant and lead safety training; members clarified funding sources and county shares during discussion.
At the July 2 committee meeting Chair Stewart led consideration of several funding and contract measures affecting health and social‑service programs.
The committee adopted Resolution 361, authorizing a contract amendment with the New York State Office of Victim Services (Department of Social Services) to extend the term through Sept. 30, 2026 and increase funding to support services for child and non‑offending adult victims. Deputy Commissioner Rita Wood explained the contract covers a full‑time crime victims advocate at the county children's advocacy center and clarified that the funding is routed through the state and shows in county budgets as both expenditure and revenue (reimbursement).
Resolutions 362 and 363 approved $90,000 contracts with the County Children's Home of Wyoming Conference to provide prevention and community‑based alternatives to detention. Deputy Commissioner Rita Wood said one contract serves 15–18‑year‑olds and the other serves a broader population beginning at about age seven; the committee clarified that one of the contracts includes a county share while another is fully state funded.
Resolution 364 extended a contract amendment with United Way of Ulster County to provide a family and youth empowerment partner through Oct. 31, 2027; the funding mix is 31% federal, 42% state and 27% county. Resolution 366 accepted a $5,000 mini‑grant from the New York State Association of County Health Officials to support immunization action plans focused on HPV vaccination; Director Walter said the county applied and received the maximum award. Resolution 367 approved a $16,848 amendment with Zach Academy Inc. to continue certified renovator lead‑safety training through Sept. 30, 2027 to address a shortage of certified contractors needed for lead abatement related to the county's lead rental registry.
Chair Stewart said Resolution 368 (accepting an additional targeted inflationary increase from the New York State Office of Addiction Services and Supports for Child and Family Emergency Services and Community Support Programs) also passed; Commissioner McDonald described the increase as a small cost‑of‑living adjustment to several contracts. The transcript contains a partially garbled funding number for this item and the exact additional dollar amount was not fully legible in the record.
All listed resolutions were adopted by voice vote during the session. Several legislators and department officials used the discussion to clarify whether funds are state, federal or county shares and to confirm terms and populations served. Where county shares exist, staff said those obligations were identified and will be covered within county appropriations or reappropriation processes.
