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History
- Signed chap.610
- Delivered to governor
- Returned to senate
- Passed assembly
- Home rule request
- Ordered to third reading rules cal.375
- Substituted for A7212
- Referred to corporations, authorities and commissions
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 61–1
- Home rule request
- Advanced to third reading
Show 5 earlier actions
- 2nd report cal.
- 1st report cal.769
- Print number 4555a
- Amend and recommit to corporations, authorities and commissions
- Referred to corporations, authorities and commissions
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Relates to the Montgomery, Otsego, Schoharie county solid waste management authority
Assembly Floor Calendar · Sponsor William Magee
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Sponsor's memo
BILL NUMBER:S4555A
Title of bill
An act to amend the public authorities law, in relation to the Montgomery, Otsego, Schoharie county solid waste management authority
Purpose
To authorize Otsego County, at its option, to terminate its participation in the Montgomery, Otsego, Schoharie Solid Waste Authority (MOSA).
Summary of provisions
Adds a new section 2041-w to the public authorities law to establish a process by which Otsego County may terminate its membership in MOSA. Provides for the equitable distribution of the authority's assets and liabilities among component counties.
Section 2 provides for an immediate effective date.
Existing law
Currently, Otsego County is a component county of the solid waste authority.
Justification
Otsego County voluntarily joined two other counties in 1988 to create a tri-county waste authority to handle its solid waste and recycling needs. Now, two decades later, the county wishes to exercise its rights under home rule to withdraw from the compact.
The county, through its duly elected representatives, has requested that it be permitted to end its participation in the solid waste authority. The county has conducted extensive study and research into its options and obligations, and believes that its constituents are better served if the county handles its own solid waste program. The authority's bonds have been retired and all landfill post-closure responsibilities are defined in a 2009 agreement among the authority's component counties. County officials cite a September 20, 2010 report by the state authorities budget office (ABO), which identified significant operational and systemic deficiencies in the MOS Authority and recommended a complete overhaul and review of the authority's operations, procedures and policies, and an examination of the authority's continued viability.
The bill requires the equitable apportionment of the authority's assets and liabilities and defines Otsego's share of assets and liabilities as its percentage of the total population served by the three county authority.
Legislative history
New bill.
Fiscal implications
None to the state.
Effective date
Immediate.
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