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REDUCING THE NUMBER OF DIRECTORS OF THE COUNTY OF SULLIVAN INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY FROM NINE (9) MEMBERS TO SEVEN (7) MEMBERS
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RESOLUTION INTRODUCED BY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE REDUCING THE NUMBER OF DIRECTORS OF THE COUNTY OF SULLIVAN INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY FROM NINE (9) MEMBERS TO SEVEN (7) MEMBERS
WHEREAS, the Board of Supervisors, by Resolution No. 77 of 1970, requested the New York State Legislature establish an Industrial Development Agency for the benefit of the residents of Sullivan County; and
WHEREAS, Chapter 560 of the Laws of 1970 added Section 906 to the General Municipal Law establishing the County of Sullivan Industrial Development Agency (“Agency”), effective May 8, 1970; and
WHEREAS, the organization of the Agency was formalized by a Certificate of Establishment dated November 6, 1970, which provided for a Board of Directors consisting of five (5) members; and
WHEREAS, Subdivision 856(2) of Title 1 of Article 18-A of the General Municipal Law (“GML”) provides that, except as otherwise provided by special act of the Legislature, an industrial development agency shall have a board of directors of not less than three (3) or more than seven (7) members; and
WHEREAS, by Resolution No. 123 of 1988, the Board of Supervisors increased the number of directors of the Agency from five (5) to seven (7); and
WHEREAS, by Resolution No. 175 of 2008, the Sullivan County Legislature requested the New York State Legislature to amend Section 906 of the GML to provide authority to appoint up to nine (9) members to the Board of Directors of the Agency; and
WHEREAS, Assembly Bill A06593, signed into law on September 25, 2008, authorized the Sullivan County Legislature to appoint up to nine (9) members to the Board of Directors of the Agency on or after January 1, 2009; and
WHEREAS, the Agency has requested that the Sullivan County Legislature reduce the number of members of the Agency’s Board of Directors from nine (9) to seven (7).
NOW, THEREFORE, be it resolved, that the number of members of the Board of Directors of the Agency be reduced from nine (9) members to seven (7) members by not later than April 13, 2026.