File #: 22-391    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Resolution Status: Passed
File created: 9/12/2022 In control: Audit and Finance Committee
On agenda: Final action: 10/11/2022
Title: AMENDING THE 2022 ALBANY COUNTY BUDGET: HEALTH CARE AND MENTAL HYGIENE WORKER BONUS PROGRAM
Sponsors: Audit and Finance Committee
Attachments: 1. RLA Form 3587, 2. 2022 Budget Amendment - NYS HWB Vesting Period 1.pdf, 3. NYS HWB Vesting Period 1 Summary.pdf, 4. 22-391 AF 9 - TMP 3587 - Healthcare amendment - annexed

RESOLUTION NO. 391

 

AMENDING THE 2022 ALBANY COUNTY BUDGET: HEALTH CARE AND MENTAL HYGIENE WORKER BONUS PROGRAM

 

                     Introduced: 10/11/22

                     By Audit and Finance Committee:

 

                     WHEREAS,                      The State of New York has created a Health Care and Mental Hygiene Worker Bonus Program, and allocated $1.2 billion in funding for payment of bonuses for certain frontline healthcare workers, and

 

                     WHEREAS, The Commissioner of the Department of Management and Budget has indicated that Albany County departments have identified and submitted claims for 236 employees, for a total in $347,500 in bonus payments, and

 

WHEREAS, The Commissioner further indicated that since payment to employees must be made within thirty (30) days from receipt of funding from the state, a budget amendment is necessary in order to promptly accept said funds, now, therefore, be it

 

                     RESOLVED, By the Albany County Legislature, that the 2022 Albany County Budget is hereby amended as indicated on the spreadsheet annexed hereto, and, be it further

 

                     RESOLVED, That the Clerk of the County Legislature is directed to forward certified copies of this resolution to the appropriate County Officials.