STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7065 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY April 4, 2019 ___________ 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. LBD10572-01-9