KINGSTON – Ulster County officials are exploring the possibility of creating an environmental remediation reserve account to pay for the cleanup of contaminated or potentially contaminated properties for which owners are delinquent in paying their taxes.
The Energy and Environment Committee of the county legislature has voted it out of committee and sent it to the Ways and Means Committee, said Legislator Kenneth Ronk.
“The environmental remediation fund would setup a separate fund utilizing some overages for what we budgeted for the tax sale and it would use that to do assessments and possible some remediation on some of these properties to get them back on the tax roll,” Ronk said.
Legislature Chairman John Parete advanced the proposal to fellow lawmakers.
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