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2025160
OF PUBLIC WORKS, PARKS AND THE COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE, IN AND FOR SAID COUNTY
- Introduced
- October 13, 2025
- Latest action
- October 13, 2025
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- ADOPTED
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PUBLIC WORKS AND CAPITAL PROJECTS
DISCUSSION ONLY 10/9/2025
RESOLUTION NO. 2025160
BOND RESOLUTION DATED NOVEMBER 10, 2025.
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF AN AGGREGATE
$2,127,060 SERIAL BONDS OF THE COUNTY OF DUTCHESS, NEW YORK,
TO PAY THE COST OF THE PURCHASE OF EQUIPMENT AND VEHICLES
FOR THE DEPARTMENTS OF PUBLIC WORKS, PARKS AND THE COUNTY
SHERIFF'S OFFICE, IN AND FOR SAID COUNTY.
WHEREAS, the capital project hereinafter described, as proposed, has been determined to
be a Type II Action pursuant to the regulations of the New York State Department of
Environmental Conservation promulgated pursuant to the State Environmental Quality Review
Act, which regulations state that Type II Actions will not result in any significant adverse
environmental impact; and
WHEREAS, it is now desired to authorize the financing thereof, NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT RESOLVED, by the County Legislature of the County of Dutchess, New York, as
follows:
Section 1.
To pay the cost of the purchase of equipment for maintenance and related
purposes for the Departments of Public Works, Parks and the County Sheriff's Office, including
in each case incidental equipment and expenses in connection therewith, there are hereby
authorized to be issued an aggregate $2,127,060 serial bonds of the County of Dutchess, New York
pursuant to the provisions of the Local Finance Law, apportioned as follows:
For the purchase of equipment for maintenance and related purposes, each item of which costs
$30,000 or over, at a maximum estimated cost of $2,085,650, being a class of objects or
purposes, having a period of probable usefulness of fifteen years, pursuant to subdivision 28
of paragraph a of Section 11.00 of the Local Finance Law, $2,085,650 serial bonds of the
aggregate $2,127,060 serial bonds of the County of Dutchess, New York, herein authorized;
and
b)
For the purchase of equipment for maintenance and related purposes, which item costs over
$15,000 but less than $30,000, at a maximum estimated cost of $41,410, being a class of
objects or purposes, having a period of probable usefulness of ten years, pursuant to
subdivision 28 of paragraph a of Section 11.00 of the Local Finance Law, $41,410 serial
bonds of the aggregate $2,127,060 serial bonds of the County of Dutchess, New York, herein
authorized
Section 2.
It is hereby determined that the aggregate maximum estimated cost of the
aforesaid objects or purposes described in Section 1 hereof is $2,127,060, which objects or purposes
are hereby authorized at said maximum estimated cost, and that the plan for the financing thereof by
the issuance of the $2,127,060 serial bonds herein authorized to be issued therefore pursuant to the
provisions of the Local Finance Law, apportioned to each such object or purpose as specified in
Section 1 hereof.
Section 3.
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 4.
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 5.
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 6.
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
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 7.
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.
Section 8.
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 set aside with
respect to the permanent funding of the object or purpose described herein.
Section 9.
The validity of such bonds and bond anticipation notes may be contested only
if:
1)
Such obligations are authorized for an object or purpose for which said County
is not authorized to expend money, or
2)
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 10.
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.
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Fiscal Impact: See Attached
CERTIFICATION FORM
STATE OF NEW YORK
) SS.:
COUNTY OF DUTCHESS
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 November 10, 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 member 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 November 13, 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
Poughkeepsie Journal
November 7, 2025
November 7, 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
22 Market Street, 6" Floor, County Office Building
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
November 7, 2025
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the County Legislature
this 12 day of November, 2025.
yellege
APPROVED 1
Sue tered
SUSAN J. SERINO
COUNTY EXECUTIVE
11-13-2025
Year
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
2025 Capital Equipment - Highway, Parks and Sherff
PRIN O/S
PRIN PAYMENT
$2,127,060
1,985,256
1,843,452
1,701,648
1,559,844
1,418,040
1,276,236
1,134,432
992,628
850,824
709,020
567,216
425,412
283,608
141,804
$141,804
141,804
141,804
141,804
141,804
141,804
141,804
141,804
141,804
141,804
141,804
141,804
141,804
141,804
141,804
TOTAL
AVG. PER YEAR
$2,127,060
$141,804
FISCAL IMPACT STATEMENT
INTEREST
$88,486
82,587
76,688
70,789
64,890
58,990
53,091
47,192
41,293
35,394
29,495
23,596
17,697
11,798
5,899
$707,886
$47,192
TOTAL PRINCIPAL
$2,127,060
ANTICIPATED INTEREST RATE (1)
TERM
15 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 financing
which is dependent upon the structuring of all debt issued when this project is ultimately financed.
TOTAL
$230,290
224,391
218,492
212,593
206,694
200,794
194,895
188,996
183,097
177,198
171,299
165,400
159,501
153,602
147,703
$2,834,946
$188,996
4.16%
$21,060
$188,996
$2,834,946
APPROPRIATIONS
Increase
H0664.7110.2400.05
H0664.7110.2400.10
H0664.5110.2400.10
H0664.5110.2400.20
H0664. 3110.2400.10
H0664.3110.2400.20
H0664.5110.3900
REVENUES
Increase
H0664.5110.57100
H0664 - 2025 Capital Equipment
Highway and Street Equipment - 5 year
Highway and Street Equipment - 10 year
Highway and Street Equipment - 10 year
Highway and Street Equipment - 20 year
Highway and Street Equipment - 10 year
Highway and Street Equipment - 20 year
Bond Issue Costs
Serial Bonds
$
35,000
$
175,000
$
290,000
$ 1,140,000
$
41,000
$ 425,000
21,060
$ 2,21.060
$ 2,127,060
$ 2,127,060
Qty to
Purchase
Equipment Description
1
1
1
1
1
1
Gang Truck
Ten-wheeler Dump/Plow Sander Truck
Front End Loader w/attachments
12T Equipment Trailer
Tractor with Gang Mower
Gator
Enciosed 16' Cargo Trailer
Lenco Bearcat Emergency Rescue Truck
Aluminum Dump Body
DUTCHESS COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS
2025 CAPITAL EQUIPMENT REQUESTS
gency:
Useful Life
H=Highwa
(years)
p=Parks
Unit price
S=Sheriff
10
20
20
10
10
5
10
20
10
H
190,000
H
I I A A
400,000
340,000
100,000
175,000
$
UA LA VA
35,000
S
15,000
S
425,000
2026 Tolal Reques S
Total Net Cost
190,000
800,000
340,000
100,000
175,000
35,000
15,000
425,000
26,000
2,106,000
Replacement Notes:
Replace G-4
Replacement
Replace WL-1
Replaces FB-1
Replacement
Replacement
new
Replacement
Keeps exist truck in service
Comments
2025160 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF AN AGGREGATE
$2,127,060 SERIAL BONDS OF THE COUNTY OF DUTCHESS, NEW YORK, TO
PAY THE COST OF THE PURCHASE OF EQUIPMENT AND VEHICLES FOR THE
DEPARTMENTS OF PUBLIC WORKS, PARKS AND THE COUNTY SHERIFF'S
OFFICE, IN AND FOR SAID COUNTY was offered for discussion only at the
October 9, 2025, Public Works and Capital Projects Committee Meeting, and
considered at the November 10, 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, Garito,
Gorman, House, Houston, Kaul, Kearney, Lawler, McHoul,
Metzger, Munn, Page, Paoloni, Polasek, Rolison, Travelpiece,
Truitt, Valdés Smith, and Versaci
NAYS:
ABSENT:
Resolution adopted.
Johnson
Public Works and Capital Projects Roll Call
District
Name
District 7 - Hyde Park and Pleasant Valley 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 :
Abstentions:
Yes
No
absent
Yes
No
2025160 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF AN AGGREGATE
$2,127,060 SERIAL BONDS OF THE COUNTY OF DUTCHESS, NEW YORK, TO PAY
THE COST OF THE PURCHASE OF EQUIPMENT AND VEHICLES FOR THE
DEPARTMENTS OF PUBLIC WORKS, PARKS AND THE COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE,
IN AND FOR SAID COUNTY
NOVEMBER 6, 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: _
Motion:
Last Name
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 :
Abstentions:
YES
NO
Absent
Yes
No
2025160 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF AN AGGREGATE
$2,127,0100 SERIAL BONDS OF THE COUNTY OF DUTCHESS, NEW YORK, TO PAY
THE COST OF THE PURCHASE OF EQUIPMENT AND VEHICLES FOR THE
DEPARTMENTS OF PUBLIC WORKS, PARKS AND THE COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE,
IN AND FOR SAID COUNTY
NOVEMBER 10, 2025