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4.40 4.40 FIRE & RESCUE\\Advance Contract Payment to WGF Fire - 1-1-20 RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING ADVANCE PAYMENTS TO WEST GLENS FALLS VOLUNTEER FIRE CO., INC. UNDER CURRENT AGREEMENT RESOLUTION NO.: ____________________________________________________, 2020 INTRODUCED BY: ___________________________________________________ WHO MOVED ITS ADOPTION SECONDED BY: _____________________________________________________ WHEREAS, fire protection services are provided to the Town of Queensbury by the Bay Ridge Volunteer Fire Co., Inc., North Queensbury Volunteer Fire Co., Inc., Queensbury Central Volunteer Fire Co., Inc., South Queensbury Volunteer Fire Co, Inc., and the West Glens Falls Volunteer Fire Co., Inc., in accordance with agreements between each Fire Company and the Town, and WHEREAS, the Town’s Agreement with the West Glens Falls Volunteer Fire Co., Inc., expired on December 31, 2019, and WHEREAS, in such Agreement the Town and Fire Company have agreed that the terms and provisions of the existing Agreement may continue during the interim period pending execution of a new Agreement which is anticipated to occur sometime during the first several weeks of 2020, and WHEREAS, the Fire Company may face cash flow shortages before the new Agreement can be executed and therefore the Town Board wishes to authorize advance payments under the current Agreement, which if new Agreement is entered into will constitute advance payments on the 2020 Agreement to the Fire Company, such advances to be deducted from contract payments to be paid if and after the 2020 agreement is ratified, NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Queensbury Town Board hereby authorizes the Town Supervisor to th approve payment of 1/12 of the respective 2019 Contract Amount for operations to the West Glens Falls Volunteer Fire Company, Inc., (Fire Company) under the current Agreement, which payment will constitute advance payment on the new fire protection services 2020 Agreement if such Agreement is entered into, and BE IT FURTHER, RESOLVED, that should a new fire protection services 2020 Agreement not be entered into st by January 31, 2020, then the Town Board authorizes the Town Supervisor to approve additional th payments constituting 1/12 of the 2019 Contract Amount to the Fire Company during February, 2020 and again during March, 2020 if necessary, and BE IT FURTHER, RESOLVED, that the Town Board further authorizes and directs the Town Supervisor and Town Budget Officer to make the necessary arrangements to make such payments which are authorized under the current Agreement and take such other and further action as may be necessary to effectuate the terms of this Resolution. st Duly adopted this 1 day of January, 2020, by the following vote: AYES : NOES : ABSENT: