RESOLUTION
BY COUNCIL PRESIDENT COLLINS-BELLAMY, MAJORITY LEADER RUBBO, MAJORITY WHIP ROBINSON, MINORITY LEADER BREEN, COUNCILMEMBERS, PINEDA -ISAAC, DIAZ AND MERANTE:
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RESOLUTION APPROVING AN INTER-MUNICIPAL AGREEMENTS BY AND BETWEEN THE CITY OF YONKERS AND THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER TO ACCEPT WELLNESS IN NUTRITION PROGRAM (WIN) & NUTRITION SERVICES INCENTIVE PROGRAM (NSIP) CONTRACT IN THE AMOUNT OF $268,607
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WHEREAS, New York State Office of the Aging has provided the County of Westchester (the “County”) with certain grant funding for nutrition services, which the County desires to pass through to the City of Yonkers (the “City”); and
WHEREAS, the City wishes to enter into an inter-municipal agreements ( “IMA”) with the County to accept/implement said grant funding; and
WHEREAS, New York State General Municipal Law Article 5-G, Section 119-o, authorizes municipal corporations and districts to enter into agreements for the performance of various functions.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the City be and hereby is authorized to enter into an IMA with the County to accept funding in an approximate amount of $232,777 for WIN PY 2024-25, and funding in an approximate amount of $35,830 NSIP PY 2023-24 with no required City match.
RESOLVED, that the IMA for nutrition funding is authorized for one (1) one-year term; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the above constitutes a “Type II” action under the State Environmental Quality Review Act (“SEQRA”), and its implementing regulations, 6 NYCRR Part 617, which is an action determined not to have a significant effect on the environment and therefore does not require further environment review; and be it further
RESOLVED, that Mayor or his authorized designee is hereby empowered to execute all instruments and take all actions reasonable and necessary to effectuate the purposes hereof; and be it further
RESOLVED, that this resolution will take effect immediately.