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2025199
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF $4,252,100 SERIAL BONDS OF THE COUNTY OF DUTCHESS, NEW YORK, TO PAY THE COST OF THE RECONSTRUCTION OF VARIOUS COUNTY BUILDINGS, IN AND FOR SAID COUNTY
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- November 9, 2025
- Latest action
- November 9, 2025
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- ADOPTED
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PUBLIC WORKS AND CAPITAL PROJECTS
DISCUSSION ONLY 11/6/2025
RESOLUTION NO. 2025199
BOND RESOLUTION DATED DECEMBER 8, 2025.
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF $4,252,100 SERIAL
BONDS OF THE COUNTY OF DUTCHESS, NEW YORK, TO PAY THE COST
OF THE RECONSTRUCTION OF VARIOUS COUNTY BUILDINGS, IN AND
FOR SAID COUNTY
WHEREAS, all conditions precedent to the financing of the capital projects hereinafter
described have been performed and, in the case of compliance with the provisions of the State
Environmental Quality Review Act ("SEQRA"), will be performed on a project-by-project, site-
by-site basis before the financing of any particular project; and
WHEREAS, the SEQRA analysis will be conducted on a site specific basis regarding the
improvements to each County building; and
WHEREAS, the County of Dutchess cannot borrow pursuant to this resolution as to any
particular building prior to completion of said SEQRA analysis and determination of status
pursuant to SEQRA and the regulations promulgated thereunder; and
WHEREAS, it is now desired to authorize the financing of such capital project; NOW,
THEREFORE
BE IT RESOLVED, by the County Legislature of the County of Dutchess, New York, as
follows:
Section 1.
Reconstruction of various County buildings, in and for the County of
Dutchess, New York, including design and other preliminary expenses and site improvements, and
original
furnishings, equipment,
machinery, apparatus,
appurtenances,
incidental
improvements and expenses in connection therewith, is hereby authorized at a maximum estimated
cost of $4,252,100.
Section 2.
It is hereby determined that the plan for the financing of the aforesaid class
of objects or purposes is by the issuance of $4,252,100 serial bonds of said County hereby
authorized to be issued therefor pursuant to the provisions of the Local Finance Law
Section 3.
It is hereby determined that the period of probable usefulness of the
aforesaid class of objects or purposes is 25 years, pursuant to subdivision 12(a)(1) of paragraph a
of Section 11.00 of the Local Finance Law.
Section 4.
Subject to the provisions of the Local Finance Law, the power to authorize the
issuance of and to sell bond anticipation notes in anticipation of the issuance and sale of the serial
bonds herein authorized, including renewals of such notes, is hereby delegated to the Commissioner
of Finance, the chief fiscal officer. Such notes shall be of such terms, form and contents, and shall be
sold in such manner, as may be prescribed by said Commissioner of Finance, consistent with the
provisions of the Local Finance Law.
Section 5.
The faith and credit of said County of Dutchess, New York, are hereby
irrevocably pledged for the payment of the principal of and interest on such bonds as the same
respectively become due and payable. An annual appropriation shall be made in each year sufficient
to pay the principal of and interest on such bonds becoming due and payable in such year. There shall
annually be levied on all the taxable real property of said County a tax sufficient to pay the principal
of and interest on such bonds as the same become due and payable.
Section 6.
Such bonds shall be in fully registered form and shall be signed in the name
of the County of Dutchess, New York, by the manual or facsimile signature of the Commissioner of
Finance and a facsimile of its corporate seal shall be imprinted or impressed thereon and may be
attested by the manual or facsimile signature of the County Clerk.
Section 7.
The powers and duties of advertising such bonds for sale, conducting the sale
and awarding the bonds, are hereby delegated to the Commissioner of Finance, who shall advertise
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such bonds for sale, conduct the sale, and award the bonds in such manner as she shall deem best for
the interests of the County; provided, however, that in the exercise of these delegated powers, she
shall comply fully with the provisions of the Local Finance Law and any order or rule of the State
Comptroller applicable to the sale of municipal bonds. The receipt of the Commissioner of Finance
shall be a full acquittance to the purchaser of such bonds, who shall not be obliged to see to the
application of the purchase money.
Section 8.
All other matters, except as provided herein relating to such bonds including
determining whether to issue such bonds having substantially level or declining annual debt service
and all matters related thereto, prescribing whether manual or facsimile signatures shall appear on
said bonds, prescribing the method for the recording of ownership of said bonds, appointing the fiscal
agent or agents for said bonds, providing for the printing and delivery of said bonds (and if said bonds
are to be executed in the name of the County by the facsimile signature of the Commissioner of
Finance, providing for the manual countersignature of a fiscal agent or of a designated official of the
County), the date, denominations, maturities and interest payment dates, place or places of payment,
and also including the consolidation with other issues, shall be determined by the Commissioner of
Finance. It is hereby determined that it is to the financial advantage of the County not to impose and
collect from registered owners of such serial bonds any charges for mailing, shipping and insuring
bonds transferred or exchanged by the fiscal agent, and, accordingly, pursuant to paragraph c of
Section 70.00 of the Local Finance Law, no such charges shall be so collected by the fiscal agent.
Such bonds shall contain substantially the recital of validity clause provided for in section 52.00 of
the Local Finance Law and shall otherwise be in such form and contain such recitals in addition to
those required by section 52.00 of the Local Finance Law, as the Commissioner of Finance shall
determine.
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Section 9.
This resolution shall constitute a statement of official intent for purposes of
Treasury Regulations Section 1.150 - 2. Other than as specified in this resolution, no monies are, or
are reasonably expected to be, reserved, allocated on a long-term basis, or otherwise sct aside with
respect to the permanent funding of the object or purpose described herein.
Section 10.
The validity of such bonds and bond anticipation notes may be contested only
if:
Such obligations are authorized for an object or purpose for which said County is not
authorized to expend money, or
The provisions of law which should be complied with at the date of publication of this
resolution are not substantially complied with, and an action, suit or proceeding contesting
such validity is commenced within twenty days after the date of such publication, or
Such obligations are authorized in violation of the provisions of the Constitution.
Section 11.
This resolution, which takes effect immediately, shall be published in
summary form in The Poughkeepsie Journal and the Southern Dutchess News, the official
newspapers of said County, together with a notice of the Clerk of the County Legislature in
substantially the form provided in Section 81.00 of the Local Finance Law.
CA-160-25; G-0145-B; CEB/mar/rjw; 10/31/2025
Fiscal Impact: See Attached
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CERTIFICATION FORM
STATE OF NEW YORK
COUNTY OF DUTCHESS
)
) SS.:
)
I, the undersigned Clerk of the County Legislature of the County of Dutchess, New York (the
"Issuer"), DO HEREBY CERTIFY:
That I have compared the annexed extract of the minutes of the meeting of the County
Legislature of said County, including the resolution contained therein, held on December 8, 2025,
with the original thereof on file in my office, and that the same is a true and correct transcript
therefrom and of the whole of said original so far as the same relates to the subject matters therein
referred to.
I FURTHER CERTIFY that said County Legislature consists of 25 members; that the vote on
the foregoing resolution was 24 ayes and 0 noes, with 1 members being absent or abstaining from
voting.
I FURTHER CERTIFY that the foregoing resolution as adopted by said County Legislature
was duly approved by the County Executive of said County on December 10, 2025, in accordance
with the provisions of Section 3.02 of the Dutchess County Charter.
I FURTHER certify that all members of said Legislature had due notice of said meeting, and
that, pursuant to Section 103 of the Public Officers Law (Open Meetings Law), said meeting was
open to the general public, and that I duly caused a public notice of the time and place of said meeting
to be given to the following newspapers and/or other news media as follows:
Newspaper and/or other news media
Date given
Southern Dutchess News
Poughkcopsic Journal
December 5, 2025
December 5, 2025
and that I further duly caused public notice of the time and place of said meeting to be conspicuously
posted in the following designated public location(s) on the following dates:
Designated Location(s)
of Posted Notice
Date of Posting
County Office Building
22 Market Street, 6th Floor
Poughkeepsie, New York, 12601
December 5, 2025
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the County
Legislature this 9 day of December, 2025.
Laura Phillips,
County Legislatur
UPPROVEL
sue serine
SUSAN J. SERINO
COUNTY EXECUTIVE
DEs. Dec. 10, 2025
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FISCAL IMPACT STATEMENT
NO FISCAL IMPACT PROJECTED
APPROPRIATION RESOLUTIONS
(To be completed by requesting department)
Total Current Year Cost $ 4.210,000
Total Current Year Revenue $°
and Source
Source of County Funds (check one):
• Existing Appropriations, •Contingency,
[Transfer of Existing Appropriations, E Additional Appropriations, D Other (oxplain).
Identify Line Items(s):
Related Expenses: Amount $
Nature/Reason:
Anticipated Savings to County:
Net County Cost (this year): $4,210,000
Over Five Years:
Additional Comments/Explanation:
The 2025 Buildings Capital Bond request includes $4,210,000 for professional services and construction services for
projects at various county-owned buildings.
The requested funding is necessary to keep the County's building assets in a state of good repair and ensure that building
are in compliance with the NYS Building Code, and they are equipped with modern, code-compliant life safety systems.
Prepared by: Robert H. Balkind, P.E.
Prepared On: 8/29/2025
Dut pat
Year
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
PRIN O/S
2025 DPW Buildings
PRIN PAYMENT
$4,252,100
4,039,495
3,826,890
3,614,285
3,401,680
3,189,075
2,976,470
2,763,865
2,551,260
2,338,655
2,126,050
1,913,445
1,700,840
1,488,235
1,275,630
1,063,025
850,420
637,815
425,210
212,605
$212,605
212,605
212,605
212,605
212,605
212,605
212,605
212,605
212,605
212,605
212,605
212,605
212,605
212,605
212,605
212,605
212,605
212,605
212,605
212,605
TOTAL
AVG. PER YEAR
$4,252,100
$212,605
FISCAL IMPACT STATEMENT
INTEREST
$192,195
182,585
172,975
163,366
153,756
144,146
134,536
124,927
115,317
105,707
96,097
86,488
76,878
67,268
57,658
48,049
38,439
28,829
19,219
9,610
$2,018,047
$100,902
TOTAL PRINCIPAL
$4,252,100
ANTICIPATED INTEREST RATE (1)
TERM
20 YEARS
ANTICIPATED FEES:
ANTICIPATED ANNUAL COST (PRIN + INT):
TOTAL PAYBACK (ANNUAL COST × TERMS):
PREPARED BY HEIDI SEELBACH
" Rate is subject to change based upon a) maket conditions at time of debt issuance and b) term of financin!
which is dependent upon the structuring of all debt issued when this project is ultimately financer
TOTAL
$404,800
395,190
385,580
375,971
366,361
356,751
347,141
337,532
327,922
318,312
308,702
299,093
289,483
279,873
270,263
260,654
251,044
241,434
231,824
222,215
$6,270,147
$313,507
4.52%
$42,100
$313,507
$6,270,147
SUE SERINO
COUNTY EXECUTIVE
ROBERT H. BALKIND, PE.
COMMISSIONER
DAVID C. WHALEN
DEPUTY COMMISSIONER
DUTCHESS COUNTY GOVERNMENT
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS
MEMORANDUM
TO:
Gregg Pulver, Assistant County Executive
FROM: Robert H. Balkind, P.E., Commissioner
DATE: August 29, 2025 - October 22, 2025
RE:
RESOLUTION REQUEST - 2025 BUILDINGS CAPITAL BOND REQUEST-
REVISED
The 2025 Buildings Capital Bond request includes $4,210,000 for professional services and
construction services for projects at various county-owned buildings. The requested funding includes:
Project Name
Description
Funding
Project Phase
Request
Bowdoin Parks Staff Workshop
Funding for design,
Design and
and Repair Garage
environmental studies
and construction
$250,000
permitting
estimates
Dept. of Public Works Truck
Repair Garage
Fire Alarm and Safety
Improvements - County wide
ADA entrance Improvements -
22 & 60 Market St
Renovations to include
HVAC and safety
$975,000
improvements
System upgrades for life
safety and code
$1,700,000
Replace doors, entrance
Design and
construction
Design and
construction
Construction phase
$985,000
Demolition of Various Parks
Structures
Demolish buildings at
Bowdoin Park, quiet Cove
Park, and Wilcox Park and
$300,000
Design and
permitting
restore grounds
Total Project Estimate =
$4,210,000
The requested funding is necessary to keep the County's building assets in a state of good repair
and ensure that buildings are in compliance with the NYS Building Code, and they are equipped with
modern. code-compliant life safety systems.
cc: Mary F. Aldrich, MA, CPFO, Director of Fiscal Services, DPW
attch.
626 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie, New York 12603 | (845) 486-2085 | www.dutchessny.gov
H0666/EA0671 -2025 Buildings Capital Request
(APPROPRIATIONS
Increase
H0666.1620.4401.105
H0666.1620.3150
H0666.7110.66.4401.105
H0666.7110.66.3150
EA0671.5610.4401.105
EA0671.5610.3150
H0666.1620.3900
EA0671.5610.3900
Professional Services
Building Reconstruction
Professional Services
Building Reconstruction
Professional Services
Building Reconstruction
Bond Issue Costs
Bond Issue Costs
EA EA EA CA CA CA EA
$
REVENUES
Increase
H0666.1620.57100
EA0671.5610.57100
Serial Bonds
Serial Bonds
$
$
710,000
2,695,000
25,000
320,000
45,000
415,000
37,500
4,600
4,252,100
3,787,500
464,600
4,252,100
2025199 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF $4,252, 100 SERIAL
BONDS OF THE COUNTY OF DUTCHESS, NEW YORK, TO PAY THE COST OF
THE RECONSTRUCTION OF VARIOUS COUNTY BUILDINGS, IN AND FOR SAID
COUNTY was offered for discussion only at the November 6, 2025, Public Works
and Capital Projects Committee Meeting, and considered at the December 8,
2025, Board Meeting.
Roll call vote on the foregoing resolution at that time resulted as follows:
AYES:
24
Atkins, Brendli, Caswell, D'Aquanni, Drago, Faust,
Gorman, House, Houston, Kaul, Kearney, Lawler, McHoul, Metzger, Munn, Page,
Paoloni, Polasek, Rolison, Travelpiece, Truitt, Valdés Smith, and Versaci
NAYS:
0
ABSENT:
1
Johnson
Resolution adopted.
Public Works and Capital Projects Roll Call
District
District 7 - Hyde Park and Pleasant Valley
Name
Truitt*
District 25 - Amenia, Washington, Pleasant Valley & Millbrook
Houston*
District 3 - LaGrange
Polasek*
District 16 - Fishkill and Beacon
Valdés Smith*
District 9 - City of Poughkeepsie
Atkins*
District 1 - Town of Poughkeepsie
Gorman
District 10 - City of Poughkeepsie
Johnson (VC)
District 12 - East Fishkill
Metzger (C)
District 13 - East Fishkill and Wappinger
Paoloni
District 15 - Wappinger
Faust
District 20 - Red Hook, Tivoli, and Rhinebeck
Munn
District 23 - Pawling, Beekman and East Fishkill
Rolison
Present:
Absent:
Vacant:
Resolution:
Motion:
Total :
Q
Abstentions:
Yes
No
@breat
Yes
No
2025199 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF $4,252,100 SERIAL BONDS OF THE
COUNTY OF DUTCHESS, NEW YORK, TO PAY THE COST OF THE RECONSTRUCTION OF VARIOUS
COUNTY BUILDINGS, IN AND FOR SAID COUNTY
DECEMBER 4, 2025
Roll Call Sheets
District
Present:
Absent:
Vacant:
District 7 - Hyde Park and Pleasant Valley
District 25 - Amenia, Washington, Pleasant Valley & Millbrook
District 3 - LaGrange
District 16 - Fishkill and Beacon
District 9 - City of Poughkeepsie
District 1 - Town of Poughkeepsie
District 2 - LaGrange, Pleasant Valley & Town of Poughkeepsie
District 4 - Hyde Park and Town of Poughkeepsie
District 5 - Town of Poughkeepsie
District 6 - Town of Poughkeepsie
District 8 - City and Town of Poughkeepsie
District 10 - City of Poughkeepsie
District 11 - Clinton, Pleasant Valley, and Rhinebeck
District 12 - East Fishkill
District 13 - East Fishkill and Wappinger
District 14 - Wappinger and Town of Poughkeepsie
District 15 - Wappinger
District 17 - Town and Village of Fishkill
District 18 - City of Beacon and Fishkill
District 19 - North East, Stanford, Pine Plains, Milan & Red Hook
District 20 - Red Hook, Tivoli, and Rhinebeck
District 21 - East Fishkill
District 22 - Beekman and Union Vale
District 23 - Pawling, Beekman and East Fishkill
District 24 - Dover and Pawling
Resolution: V
Motion:
Last Name
YES
Truitt
Houston
Polasek
Valdés Smith
Atkins
Gorman
Travelpiece
Lawler
D'Aquanni
Kaul
Brendli
Johnson
Kearney
Metzger
Paoloni
Versaci
Faust
McHoul
Page
Drago
Munn
Caswell
Garito
Rolison
House
Total :
24
Yes
Abstentions: O
NO
abseut
No
2025199 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF $4,252,100 SERIAL BONDS OF THE
COUNTY OF DUTCHESS, NEW YORK, TO PAY THE COST OF THE RECONSTRUCTION OF VARIOUS
COUNTY BUILDINGS, IN AND FOR SAID COUNTY
DECEMBER 8, 2025