Requires the Erie County Water Authority to have skills training and apprenticeship programs; requires the comptroller perform a decennial audit of the Erie County Water Authority's ability to be merged with Erie county.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7065
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 4, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. BURKE -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to the Erie
County Water Authority
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The public authorities law is amended by adding a new
2 section 1058-a to read as follows:
3 § 1058-a. Duty of the authority to maintain workforce adequacy. The
4 authority shall maintain workforce adequacy, including the availability
5 of skilled laborers, by having skills training and apprenticeship
6 programs.
7 § 2. The public authorities law is amended by adding a new section
8 1070-a to read as follows:
9 § 1070-a. Decennial merger audit; merger. 1. The controller shall
10 decennially submit to the authority, the Erie county legislature and the
11 Erie county executive an audit which provides an analysis of the costs
12 associated with merging the authority with Erie county. The audit shall
13 also include a detailed description of the process for merging the
14 authority with Erie county. The comptroller shall submit the first such
15 audit on or before the one hundred eightieth day after this section
16 shall have become a law and shall submit a decennial merger audit on or
17 before March first of every tenth year following the previous
18 submission.
19 2. In the event Erie county passes a local law, either by a vote of no
20 less than two-thirds approving such local law in the county legislature
21 with the approval of the county executive or by a unanimous vote by the
22 county legislature for such an action, the authority and the county
23 shall be merged by a process as described in the most recent decennial
24 merger audit.
25 § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
26 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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