Contracts for services

§ 99-r. Contracts for services. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law to the contrary, the governing board of any municipal corporation may enter into agreements and/or contracts with any state agency including any department, board, bureau, commission, division, office, council, committee, or officer of the state, whether permanent or temporary, or a public benefit corporation or public authority, or a soil and water conservation district, and any unit of the state university of New York, pursuant to and consistent with sections three hundred fifty-five and sixty-three hundred one of the education law within or without such municipal corporation to provide or receive fuel, equipment, maintenance and repair, supplies, water supply, street sweeping or maintenance, sidewalk maintenance, right-of-way maintenance, storm water and other drainage, sewage disposal, landscaping, mowing, technology services, or any other services of government. Such state agency, soil and water conservation district, or unit of the state university of New York, within the limits of any specific statutory appropriation authorized and made available therefor by the legislature or by the governing body responsible for the operation of such state agency, soil and water conservation district, or unit of the state university of New York may contract with any municipal corporation for such services as herein provided and may provide, in agreements and/or contracts entered into pursuant to this section, for the reciprocal provision of services or other consideration of approximately equivalent value, including, but not limited to, routine and/or emergency services, monies, equipment, buildings and facilities, materials or a commitment to provide future routine and/or emergency services, monies, equipment, buildings and facilities or materials. Any such contract may be entered into by direct negotiations and shall not be subject to the provisions of section one hundred three of this chapter.