County of Westchester

Board of Acquisition and Contract

Meeting Minutes - Final

Thursday, December 11, 2025

Roll Call

11:00 AM County Executive Conference Room

Michaelian Office Building

Mr. Richard Wishnie, Mr. Vedat Gashi, and Mr. Lawrence C.

Soule

Present:

Attendees:

Commissioner of Finance

Deputy County Attorney

Board of Legislators

Secretary BAC

Karin Hablow

Dave Vutera

Greg Casciato

Santiago Caceres

Lisa Hochman

Raymond Sculky

Lindsay Jackson

Assistant Secretary BAC

Mr. Wishnie presided.

Mr. Wishnie said, "The Board of Acquisition and Contract permits in-person access to

the meeting and virtually through Webex.

For the record, has the Secretary gone to the reception area to invite any members of

the public who wish to attend today’s meeting in person to come to this conference

room?"

Mr. Sculky replied, "Yes I have"

Acquisition & Contract.

Minutes of the meeting 12/4/25 and the SEQR Review for agenda items.

R. Sculky

Mr. Wishnie moved to receive and file the foregoing minutes and SEQR review,

which were duly seconded and approved.

11264 7County Executive - Pursuant to Section 3(a)(xxi) of the Westchester

County Procurement Policy and Procedures, a first amendment to an

agreement with Greenberg Traurig LLP.

K. Jenkins

Mr. Wishnie moved the Resolution, which was duly seconded and

unanimously approved.

11264 8County Executive - Amend an agreement with Greenberg Traurig LLP

(“Greenberg Traurig”), pursuant to which Greenberg Traurig provides

lobbying in connection with its relations with the government of the State

of New York, for a term from 1/1/25 - 12/31/25, for a total amount not to

exceed $35,000. The First Amendment will increase the not-to-exceed

amount by $25,000, to a new total aggregate amount not to exceed

$60,000.

K. Jenkins

Mr. Wishnie moved the Resolution, which was duly seconded and

unanimously approved.

11256 5Finance - Enter into an agreement with the Health Insurance Plan of

Greater New York (“HIP”) for the provision of health care maintenance

organization services for eligible County employees, for a term

commencing on 1/1/26 - 12/31/26, at the monthly premium rates as

follows: Plan Year Monthly Premium Rate 2026 Individual: $1,855.85 and

Family: $4,546.81 and the cost of the agreement shall be in an amount of

$1,635,942.

K. Hablow

Mr. Wishnie moved the Resolution, which was duly seconded and

unanimously approved.

11260 1County Attorney - Amend a “short form” agreement with Traub

Lieberman Straus & Shrewsberry, LLP (the “Firm”), pursuant to which the

Firm agreed to represent a former Assistant Chief Deputy County

Attorney in connection with the civil matter Chevor Pompey v. County of

Westchester et al., for a term commencing on 8/8/24 - 8/7/25, for an

amount not-to-exceed $15,000, payable at the rate of $350 per hour”), in

order to retroactively extend the term thereof from 8/7/25 - 8/7/26.

S. Dolgin-Kmetz

Mr. Wishnie moved the Resolution, which was duly seconded and

unanimously approved.

11263 2County Attorney - Amend an agreement, as previously amended and

assigned, with the law firm Friedman Kaplan Seiler Adelman & Robbins

LLP (“Friedman Kaplan”) to provide legal counsel and advice to the

Westchester County Charter Revision Commission, by (i) increasing the

amount by an additional $100,000, from an amount not to exceed

$100,000, to a new total amount not to exceed $200,000, and (ii)

extending the term of the agreement through 12/31/26.

J. Nonna

Mr. Wishnie moved the Resolution, which was duly seconded and

unanimously approved.

11264 9Information Technology - Pursuant to Section 3(a)(xxi) of the

Westchester County Procurement Policy and Procedures, to exempt from

procurement an agreement with Motorola Solutions, Inc.

M. Beirne

Mr. Wishnie moved the Resolution, which was duly seconded and

unanimously approved.

11265 0Information Technology - Amend a 12/27/18 agreement (Agreement

No. IT-1559) with Motorola Solutions, Inc., for the replacement,

expansion and evolution of the County’s public safety Voice Radio

Communications Systems to amend the scope of work for Stages 1 and 2

to add the installation of equipment to add 700 MHz channels to the

Trunk system, for an amount not to exceed $2,241,194.20 and agree to

Change Order 57 to Activate South Paging Channel 3 & Trunked System

Channel 6 in an amount not to exceed $102,106, bringing the new total

not to exceed amount for Stages 1 and 2 from $45,529,962.41 to

$47,873,262.61, and granting to the County the right to require Motorola

to provide the County with post warranty maintenance and life-cycle

support services upon the expiration of the three (3) year warranty for

700MHz, in the amount not to exceed $1,016,981.

M. Beirne

Mr. Wishnie moved the Resolution, which was duly seconded and

unanimously approved.

11263 8Planning - Enter into an agreement with Barton & Loguidice, D.P.C., to

provide consultant services for the development of a community

water-quality monitoring program for Westchester County, in support of

the Department of Planning’s watershed planning program, for a term

commencing retroactively on 12/15/25 - 6/30/27, for a total amount not to

exceed $200,000.

B. Lopez

Mr. Wishnie moved the Resolution, which was duly seconded and

unanimously approved.

11264 4Planning - Enter into any and all agreements necessary to purchase

approximately 0.577 acres of real property located at 438 Main Street in

the City of New Rochelle, from the current owner(s) of record in an

amount not to exceed $4,050,000 and to convey the Property to 438 Main

Development LLC, its successors or assigns, or any entity created to

carry out the purpose of the proposed transaction, for ONE ($1.00)

DOLLAR and to grant and/or accept any and all property rights in

connection therewith for the purpose of creating 114 rental housing units

that will affirmatively further fair housing.

B. Lopez

Mr. Wishnie moved the Resolution, which was duly seconded and

unanimously approved.

10. 11249 5Social Services - Enter into agreements with the seven (7) licensed

consultants listed in Schedule “A”, pursuant to which the Consultants will

provide psychological testing and evaluations, psychiatric evaluations,

sibling consults, fire setting evaluations, safety assessments, court

ordered psychotherapy, functional capacity assessments to uninsured or

under insured parents and children, as well as vulnerable adults, upon

referral from the Department’s Child Protective Services, Preventive

Services, Foster Care Services, as well as Protective Services for Adults

Programs, to be paid on a monthly basis at the individual rates listed in

Schedule “B”, not to exceed the aggregate sum of $350,000, for the

period from 1/1/26 - 12/31/26.

L. Townes

Mr. Wishnie moved the Resolution, which was duly seconded and

unanimously approved.

11. 11248 1Social Services - 1) Enter into Grant Agreement No. DSS3059-25 with

the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development

(“HUD”), for the period from 8/1/25 - 7/31/26, in order to accept a grant

(HUD Grant No. NY0988L2T042410) in the amount of $4,474,060 under

HUD’s Continuum of Care program known as “Turning Point” (“CoC

Turning Point Program”), to provide a total of 123 units of scattered-site

permanent housing and mobile support services to 112 chronically

homeless individual adults and 11 chronically homeless families; and 2)

Enter into five (5) separate agreements with (i) Westhab, Inc., (ii) Family

Service Society of Yonkers, (iii) Lifting Up Westchester, Inc., (iv) The

Guidance Center of Westchester, Inc., and (v) Caring for the Homeless of

Peekskill Inc., for a total aggregate amount of $4,380,918, in order to

provide a total of 123 units of scattered-site permanent housing units and

mobile support services to 112 chronically homeless individuals and 11

chronically homeless families, for the period from 8/1/25 - 7/31/26.

H. Greechan

Mr. Wishnie moved the Resolution, which was duly seconded and

unanimously approved.

12. 11255 9Social Services - Enter into an agreement (DSS6030-26) with The

Children’s Village, Inc. (“Children’s Village”), pursuant to which Children’s

Village will provide crisis respite care and services at the Runaway and

Homeless Youth Shelter to youth at risk of foster care placement, for the

period from 1/1/26 - 12/31/26, for an amount not to exceed $408,785.

L. Townes

Mr. Wishnie moved the Resolution, which was duly seconded and

unanimously approved.

13. 11256 7Social Services - Retroactively enter into six (6) agreements to provide a

youth employment program for economically disadvantaged youth

pursuant to the 2025-2026 Youth Employment Program, for the period

from 9/1/25 - 6/30/26, for an aggregate not-to-exceed amount of

$2,147,751.

L. Townes

Mr. Wishnie moved the Resolution, which was duly seconded and

unanimously approved.

14. 11257 1Social Services - Enter into an agreement (DSS6029-26) with The

Children’s Village, Inc. (“Children’s Village”), pursuant to which Children’s

Village will provide a Multi Systemic Therapy Program, a

community-based intensive case management program for families with

adolescents who are exhibiting truancy, academic problems, curfew

non-compliance, non-compliance with directives at home and other

anti-social behaviors, for the period from 1/1/26 - 12/31/26, for an amount

not to exceed $1,350,000.

L. Townes

Mr. Wishnie moved the Resolution, which was duly seconded and

unanimously approved.

15. 11257 6Social Services - Enter into an agreement (DSS6027-26) with The

Children’s Village, Inc. (“Children’s Village”) pursuant to which Children’s

Village will provide its Safe Harbor Program; a multi-faceted approach to

support and serve youth who have been sexually exploited, for the period

from 1/1/26 - 12/31/26, for an amount not to exceed $100,000.

L. Townes

Mr. Wishnie moved the Resolution, which was duly seconded and

unanimously approved.

16. 11259 3Social Services - Enter into an agreement (DSS3011-26) with Youth

Shelter Program of Westchester, Inc., to provide shelter services as an

alternative to jail for young men aged eighteen to twenty-five years who

have been arraigned and assigned to the program by a judge, for the

period from 1/1/26 - 12/31/26, for an amount not to exceed $948,754.

L. Townes

Mr. Wishnie moved the Resolution, which was duly seconded and

unanimously approved.

17. 11259 7Social Services - Enter into an agreement (DSS7004-26) with Caritas of

Port Chester, Inc. (“Caritas”), pursuant to which Caritas will provide their

Meals on Main Street Program that includes services to address food

insecurity, for the period from 8/1/25 - 12/31/26, for an amount not to

exceed $139,000.

L. Townes

Mr. Wishnie moved the Resolution, which was duly seconded and

unanimously approved.

18. 11260 4Senior Programs and Services - Enter into an agreement with Maid

Brigade of Northern Westchester, Inc. to provide home cleaning services

for the elderly under the New York State Unmet Need program for an

amount not-to-exceed $107,603 in state funds, for a term commencing on

4/1/25 - 3/31/26.

M. Carpenter

Mr. Wishnie moved the Resolution, which was duly seconded and

unanimously approved.

19. 11261 0Senior Programs and Services - Enter into an agreement with

Westchester Public/Private Membership Fund for Aging Services, Inc.

(the “WPPMF”) to provide Senior Center Recreation and Education

Services to Westchester County residents 60 years or older, in

accordance with the New York State Office for the Aging (the “State”)

Unmet Need program, for a term commencing on 4/1/25 - 3/31/26, for an

amount not to exceed $220,000, paid with State funds for actual Services

provided.

M. Carpenter

Mr. Wishnie moved the Resolution, which was duly seconded and

unanimously approved.

20. 11261 7Health - Amend the existing option agreement with St. John’s Riverside

Hospital (“SJRH”), for the Maternal & Child Health Partnership Pilot

Initiative Program to address and improve Black maternal and child health

outcomes and reduce racial health inequities in the County, for a term

commencing on 7/1/24 - 12/31/25, for a revised total not-to-exceed

amount of $660,000, order to extend the term of the option agreement

through 6/30/26, in order to allow for completion of certain elements of

the scope of work.

S. Amler

Mr. Wishnie moved the Resolution, which was duly seconded and

unanimously approved.

21. 11256 1College - Contract No. WCC-26-962 for Science Building Infrastructure

Upgrades, Phase I ,Westchester Community College Valhalla, New York.

Advertise for bids.

B. Miles

Mr. Wishnie moved the Resolution, which was duly seconded and

unanimously approved.

22. 11257 3College - Enter into an affiliation agreement with Mount Vernon

Neighborhood Health Center, Inc. d/b/a Westchester Community Health

Center (the “Clinical Affiliate”) for supervised program of instruction in

healthcare services administration for the SUNY Educational Opportunity

Center (the “SUNY-WEOC”) programs to perform internship assignments

at the Clinical Affiliate, for a term commencing on 1/1/26 and continuing in

full force and effect unless terminated earlier by either party upon written

notice.

B. Miles

Mr. Wishnie moved the Resolution, which was duly seconded and

unanimously approved.

23. 11261 1College - Enter into an agreement, commencing upon execution and

continuing through August 30, 2029, with The Chancellors, Masters and

Scholars of the University of Cambridge, acting by and through the

University of Cambridge Professional and Continuing Education

(“Cambridge”) for a summer study abroad program and there will be no

cost to the College, but the College will indemnify Cambridge for any

third-party claims relating to the College’s participation in the program.

B. Miles

Mr. Wishnie moved the Resolution, which was duly seconded and

unanimously approved.

24. 11261 3District Attorney - Amend Grant Agreement No. C11423GG, with New

York State Office of Victims Services (“NYS OVS”) to accept a grant

amount of $363,773 in state and federal pass through funds for the Office

to provide various services to assist crime victims, for a term commencing

retroactively on 10/1/24 - 9/30/25, in order to (1) extend the term of the

Grant Agreement through 9/30/26, and to (2) increase the not to exceed

amount to accept additional grant funds in the amount of $363,772.85,

thereby modifying the total not to exceed amount of the Grant Agreement

to $727,545.85.

S. Cacace

Mr. Wishnie moved the Resolution, which was duly seconded and

unanimously approved.

25. 11261 4District Attorney - Amend a 10/30/25 Resolution to enter into an

agreement with Westchester Jewish Community Services, Inc., in an

amount not to exceed $188,843, for the provision of psychotherapy

services to crime victims, for a term commencing retroactively on 10/1/25

- 9/30/26, in order to modify its budget box and clarify how the agreement

will be partially funded.

S. Cacace

Mr. Wishnie moved the Resolution, which was duly seconded and

unanimously approved.

26. 11262 3DPW/Transportation - 1) Amend Contract No. 11-558, with Green

Mountain Pipeline Services LLC, for Phase II - Sewer System

Rehabilitation, Various Sanitary Sewer Districts, Westchester County,

New York, in order to retroactively extend the term thereof from 11/16/25

- 12/31/26; and 2) Execute an agreement consenting to the assignment of

Contract No. 11-558, as amended, from Green Mountain Pipeline

Services LLC to Insituform Technologies, LLC, effective upon execution

of the assignment agreement.

H. Greechan

Mr. Wishnie moved the Resolution, which was duly seconded and

unanimously approved.

27. 11262 5DPW/Transportation - Contract No. 24-504 with Mace Contracting

Corporation (MBE), for Interim and Long-Term Bio-Solids Handling and

Processing, Blind Brook Water Resource Recovery Facility, Rye, New

York. Approval of Filingeri Electrical Contracting Corp., Mohegan Lake,

NY, as a subcontractor.

H. Greechan

Mr. Wishnie moved the Resolution, which was duly seconded and

unanimously approved.

28. 11262 0DEF - Enter into a license agreement, acting through Refuse Disposal

District #1, with Thrift Land Acquisition LLC d/b/a Helpsy, to permit Helpsy

to use property located at the Household Hazardous Material Recovery

Facility, 15 Woods Road, Valhalla, NY, for a textile collection container,

for a term from 12/1/25 - 1/14/28, for an amount of $0.07 per pound of

textiles collected.

V. Kopicki

Mr. Wishnie moved the Resolution, which was duly seconded and

unanimously approved.

There being no further business, the Chair declared the meeting adjourned. All

approved resolutions are on file electronically with the Board of Acquisition and

Contract.

I have reviewed the foregoing minutes and have found them to be correct as written.