Relates to contracts of the Onondaga county water authority; requires OCWA to annually provide a report to the state comptroller on any and all contracts or orders for work, materials or supplies performed or furnished in connection with construction awarded pursuant to this section.
BILL NUMBER:A10935
TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the public authorities law, in relation
to contracts of the Onondaga county water authority and providing for
the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof
PURPOSE:; To provide the Onondaga County Water Authority to enter into a
ten year pilot program to allow it the flexibility, in relation to its
ability to enter into contracts, to construct water transmission and
distribution lines so that the people of affected municipalities may
obtain affordable potable water.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Section 1 - Provides legislative findings.
Section 2. Amends Section 1166 of the Public Authorities Law. Subdivi-
sion 1 is amended to authorize OCWA to construct a water distribution
system with materials and supplies that are obtained by the Authority
from the lowest responsible bidder awarded the Authority's current,
annual contract for materials and supplies. The present subdivision 2
is renumbered subdivision 3 and a new subdivision 2 is added to provide
that OCWA may enter into agreements with any municipality within the
County of Onondaga (except for the Town of Skaneateles) Oneida County
and any County contiguous with Onondaga County. Subdivision 3 provides
that the authorities current contract shall apply only to those
contracts with municipalities in the specified counties that elect to be
included in OCWA's service area that exceed $250,000 in total cost.
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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10935
I N A S S E M B L Y
May 4, 2010
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Introduced by M. of A. CHRISTENSEN -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to contracts of
the Onondaga county water authority and providing for the repeal of
such provisions upon expiration thereof
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Legislative findings. It is hereby determined and declared
that for the benefit and health of the people of Onondaga county
(outside the city of Syracuse and the town of Skaneateles) all counties
contiguous to Onondaga and the county of Oneida, that the Onondaga coun-
ty water authority (OCWA) should be empowered to undertake a ten year
pilot program allowing the OCWA to provide waterline construction
services to such municipalities, upon their request, utilizing the OCWA
annual construction contract. The utilization of such annual
construction contract will provide economies of scale and reduce the
cost of constructing water transmission and distribution lines so that
the people of the affected municipalities may obtain affordable potable
water. It is also determined that such annual contract should not be
utilized for construction of any project with a projected cost of less
than two hundred fifty thousand dollars to ensure that small contractors
and minority and women owned businesses have a meaningful opportunity to
participate in waterline construction projects.
S 2. Section 1166 of the public authorities law, as amended by chapter
525 of the laws of 1979, subdivision 1 as amended by chapter 597 of the
laws of 1995 and subdivision 2 as added by chapter 416 of the laws of
1994, is amended to read as follows:
S 1166. Contracts. 1. All contracts, or orders, for work, material or
supplies performed or furnished in connection with construction shall be
awarded by the authority pursuant to resolution. Such contracts, or
orders, for work, material or supplies needed for any particular purpose
involving an expenditure of more than ten thousand dollars shall be
awarded only after inviting sealed bids or proposals therefor. The
notice inviting sealed proposals shall be published at least once in a
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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