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031.2006 RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING AGREEMENT BETWEEN TOWN OF QUEENSBURY AND WARREN COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION RESOLUTION NO. 031.2006 INTRODUCED BY: Mr. Tim Brewer WHO MOVED FOR ITS ADOPTION SECONDED BY: Mr. John Strough WHEREAS, the Town and the Warren County Economic Development Corporation (WCEDC) recognize the need to revitalize the local economy by increasing the number of jobs for Town residents by attracting high technology and other industries to the area, and WHEREAS, in accordance with the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law §1411(a) and WCEDC’s Certificate of Incorporation, the purposes of the WCEDC are the exclusively charitable or public purposes of relieving and reducing unemployment, promoting and providing for additional and maximum employment, bettering and maintaining job opportunities, instructing or training individuals to improve or develop their capabilities for such jobs, carrying on scientific research for the purpose of aiding a community or geographical area by attracting new industry to the community or area or by encouraging the development of, or retention of, an industry in the community or area, and lessening the burdens of government and acting in the public interest, and WHEREAS, the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law specifically finds that corporations organized under §1411 perform an essential governmental function, and WHEREAS, the Town Board strongly supports WCEDC’s important mission to improve employment opportunities and economic development in the Town, and WHEREAS, the Town wishes to enter into an agreement with WCEDC and a proposed agreement has been presented at this meeting, NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Queensbury Town Board hereby approves and authorizes the Agreement with the Warren County Economic Development Corporation presented at this meeting with funding in the amount of $128,000 to be paid for from the appropriate account, and BE IT FURTHER, RESOLVED, that the Town Board further authorizes and directs the Town Supervisor to execute the Agreement and the Town Supervisor and/or Budget Officer to 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, 2006 by the following vote: AYES : Mr. Boor, Mr. Sanford, Mr. Strough, Mr. Brewer, Mr. Stec NOES : None ABSENT: None