Section 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 fuel, equipment,
  maintenance  and  repair,  supplies,  water  supply,  street sweeping or
  maintenance, sidewalk maintenance,  drainage,  sewage  disposal  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.  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.