

“Let me tell you something, the gals and guys that are up there 24-7, 365 do one hell of a job,” Troncillito said of the staff at the Ulster County Emergency Services Department. The topic brought one comment during the Legislature’s public session at its meeting on Tuesday, November 15, with Marlboro Fire Department Assistant Chief Mike Troncillito favoring the plan.

The leading idea at this time, the legislator reported, is for storing of buses. The remainder of the 57.3-acre site is being reserved for future development, but Legislator Eve Walter (D-New Paltz) quashed rumors that it’s going to be dedicated to affordable housing. The existing facility is located at Golden Hill.

The Paradies Lane site was selected from among ten potential properties. The scope of the plan will likely be revealed once the county begins seeking bids for design and construction. Six acres of the 57.3-acre property on Paradies Lane near Exit 18 of the New York State Thruway will be used for the siting of the facility, which will expand the county’s E-911 Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) Center and provide a centralized hub for emergency management and other county government functions. The land is owned by Wildberry Lodge, LLC. The Ulster County Legislature this week approved a $3 million property purchase of a former apple orchard in the Town of New Paltz as the future site of a state-of-the-art emergency management and government operations center. Six acres of the 57.3-acre property on Paradies Lane near Exit 18 of the New York State Thruway will be used for the siting of a state-of-the-art emergency management and government operations center.
