NY Soc Serv L § 410-CCC (2021)
2021 New York Laws SOS - Social Services Article 6 - Children Title 5 - Day Care for Certain Children 410-CCC - Child Day Care Facility Development.

§ 410-ccc. Child day care facility development. 1. Notwithstanding any other  provision of law, of the moneys appropriated to the department in section one of chapter  fifty-four  of  the  laws  of  nineteen  hundred ninety-four,  enacting  the  capital projects budget, four million seven hundred fifty thousand dollars shall  be  available  as  follows:  seven hundred fifty thousand dollars for child care project development grants and  related administrative expenses; the remaining four million dollars shall be available for the child care facilities construction program as defined in section sixteen-g of the urban development  corporation  act; of  this  amount,  no less than three million dollars shall be available for child care construction grants and related  administrative  expenses and  any  remaining  funds  may be available for child care construction revolving  loans  and  loan  guarantees,  and   related   administrative expenses.   The   amounts   available  for  the  child  care  facilities construction program, as defined  in  section  sixteen-g  of  the  urban development   corporation  act,  shall  be  suballocated  to  the  urban development corporation pursuant to this section.   Up  to  five  percent  of  the  moneys  available  pursuant  to   this subdivision  may  be  used for payments to the department or other state agencies or authorities,  and  the  urban  development  corporation  for administrative  expenses  required to develop requests for proposals and to approve contracts for child care construction  projects  pursuant  to this   section   and/or  section  sixteen-g  of  the  urban  development corporation act. The director  of  the  division  of  the  budget  shall approve such payments.   2. Child care project development grants. The department shall develop a   request   for   proposals   to   provide  grants  to  not-for-profit organizations, including, but not limited to, child  care  resource  and referral   programs,   local   development   corporations,  neighborhood preservation companies and rural preservation companies  as  defined  in section  nine hundred two of the private housing finance law, to support pre-development planning, management, and  coordination  of  activities, leading  to  the  development  of child day care centers in under-served areas meeting the needs of low-income working families. Such  activities may  include:  (a)  design studies and services and other development or redevelopment work in connection with  the  design  and  development  of child  day  care centers; and (b) studies, surveys or reports, including preliminary planning studies to assess a particular  site  or  sites  or facility or facilities for the development of child day care centers.  (c) In determining grants to be awarded, the department shall consider the  following:  (i)  that  a not-for-profit organization applying for a grant under this subdivision is a bonafide organization which shall have demonstrated by its immediate past and current activities its ability to lead or to assist in the development of projects, such as child day care centers meeting the needs of low-income families; (ii) the need for  day care  centers in the area; (iii) the potential viability for a child day care center to succeed in the area; and (iv) such other matters  as  the department determines necessary.  (d)  Grants shall be awarded to eligible entities where the department identifies an insufficient supply of child  day  care  programs.  Grants awarded   pursuant  to  the  request  for  proposals  shall  not  exceed seventy-five thousand dollars per project.   3. Child care construction grants. (a)  The  child  care  construction grants  awarded  pursuant  to  this section and section sixteen-g of the urban development corporation act shall be available for  not-for-profit child  care  facilities  construction  projects  owned or to be owned by not-for-profit corporations for use as child day care centers that  will be  duly approved, licensed, inspected, supervised, and regulated as may  be determined to be necessary and appropriate by the department,  except that  with  respect to child day care centers located in the city of New York, such child day care  centers  will  be  duly  approved,  licensed, inspected,  supervised,  and  regulated  as  may  be  determined  to  be necessary and appropriate by  the  commissioner  of  the  department  of health of the city of New York.  (b)   Grants   shall  be  made  through  contracts  to  not-for-profit corporations for child care facilities construction projects pursuant to a request for proposal process jointly developed by the  department  and the urban development corporation in consultation with the department of economic  development.  The  department shall receive, initially review, and assess applications to determine which projects should  be  referred to the urban development corporation and to rank by groups, the referred projects  according  to the capacity of such projects to meet identified needs for child day care. In assessing such applications, the department shall consider: (i) the need for day care services in the area; (ii) the potential viability for a child day care center to succeed in the  area; (iii)  the  qualifications  of  the proposed provider to operate a child care center;  (iv)  the  potential  for  meeting  applicable  regulatory requirements; (v) the appropriateness of the site for licensing as a day care  center  and  (vi)  such other matters as the department determines necessary.  (c) Upon the timely completion of the department's initial review  and selection   of  applications  meeting  criteria,  the  department  shall immediately submit such selected applications and the group rankings  of such  applications  to  the  urban  development  corporation  which,  in consultation with the department of economic development,  shall  select award  recipients.  No  later  than  upon  submission  of  the  selected applications,  the  department  shall  also   suballocate   all   moneys appropriated for such purposes to such corporation.   4.  Programs  conducted pursuant to this section of law are limited to the amounts appropriated therefor.