2006 New York Code - Expenses.

 
    §  119-oo.  Expenses.  The  board of supervisors of a county, the town
  board of a town, the common council of a city, and the board of trustees
  of  a  village,  or  the   governing   bodies   of   the   participating
  municipalities  comprising  membership in a regional planning council or
  county planning board or agency are hereby authorized  independently  or
  in  collaboration  with other local governments, in their discretion, to
  appropriate and raise  by  taxation  money  for  the  expenses  of  such
  regional  planning council  or county planning board or agency; and such
  municipal corporations shall not be chargeable with any expense incurred
  by such regional planning council or county  planning  board  or  agency
  except  pursuant  to  such an appropriation. In the case of any regional
  planning council whose membership consists only of counties,  each  such
  county  is  authorized  to  provide  for  the  payment  of the moneys so
  appropriated for the expenses of such  council  to  an  officer  of  the
  council  designated by the council to receive such moneys, provided that
  before any such moneys shall be paid to such officer, such officer shall
  have executed an  official  undertaking  conditioned  for  the  faithful
  performance of his duties in the manner provided in section four hundred
  three  of  the  county law and provided that such undertaking shall have
  been approved by the governing body of each county involved.