NY Exec L § 548-F (2021)
2021 New York Laws EXC - Executive Article 19-L - New York State Neighborhood Based Initiatives Act 548-F - Administration.

§ 548-f. Administration.  1.  Responsibilities  of  the department. a.   Unless otherwise prescribed, the department or  its  designee  shall  be   responsible for the administration of the provisions of this article.b.  In  consultation  with the committee, the department shall develop   and disseminate a request for proposals on a statewide  basis,  provided   however    that    during    state    fiscal   year   nineteen   hundred   ninety-ninety-one,  the  committee   may   limit   the   locations   for   dissemination   of   such   request  for  proposals  based  on  relevant   demographic data and such other factors as  may  be  determined  by  the   committee.  Not  less  than  thirty  days prior to dissemination of such   requests for proposals in such state fiscal year, the  department  shall   notify  the  temporary  president  of  the senate and the speaker of the   assembly of such proposed locations and the criteria for selection.c. Not less  than  thirty  days  prior  to  approving  an  application   pursuant  to  the provisions of this article, the committee, through the   department, shall notify the temporary president of the senate  and  the   speaker  of  the  assembly  of  its  intent  to  approve a project. Such   notification  shall  identify  the  recipient  and  state  the  proposed   location,  the  estimated  project  cost  and a brief description of the   project. Upon completion of its review of an application  and  not  less   than  thirty  days  after  the  notification  as  provide  for  in  this   paragraph, the committee shall approve or  disapprove  such  application   and the department shall notify the applicant of its decision.d.  The  commissioner  of  the department and the other members of the   committee shall enter into such agreements  as  shall  be  necessary  to   delineate  their respective roles regarding the cooperative provision of   program funding and technical assistance, and the review and  monitoring   of projects.e.  The  department  shall  provide assistance to approved projects to   develop  an  evaluation  methodology  appropriate  to  the   goals   and   objectives of the projects.2.  Neighborhood based initiatives unified contract. a. The department   shall enter into a neighborhood based initiatives unified contract  with   each  applicant  approved  by  the  committee.  The  provisions  of such   contract shall include, but not be limited to: a description of  project   services  and  activities, the action plan, the allowable project costs,   the specific sources of funds that  will  support  the  approved  costs,   including  state  funds,  local funds, other governmental funds, and all   nongovernmental funds or revenues  that  are  proposed  to  be  used  in   support  of  all  project  costs, and the allocation of costs by funding   source.b. The form of the neighborhood  based  initiatives  unified  contract   shall  be  developed in consultation with the division of the budget and   the department of audit and control.3.  The  comptroller  is  authorized  pursuant  to  a  certificate  of   allocation  submitted  by  the  division of the budget to interchange or   transfer from appropriations made to the agencies of  the  committee  or   any other appropriation, as appropriate, such amounts as may be required   to  fulfill  the obligations of the state pursuant to neighborhood based   initiatives unified contracts to the  department  for  payment  of  such   obligations.  The  division  of the budget shall provide the chairmen of   the senate finance committee and the assembly ways and  means  committee   with  quarterly  reports  of  all interchanges and transfers which occur   pursuant to this subdivision.4. Allowable costs for each project shall include, but not be  limited   to costs reasonably incurred for:a.  preparation  of  the  action plan required in section five hundred   forty-eight-c of this article; b. services as approved in the project application;c. evaluation of the approved project;d.  administration,  provided  however  in  every case, the support of   administrative costs pursuant to the contract shall be not more than the   maximum percentage authorized for each source of funding  or  the  total   maximum  dollars  allowed  for  administrative  costs  for  each funding   source; ande. minor renovations to existing structures, except that  in  no  case   shall  the state support of such costs exceed either twenty-five percent   of the project contract or fifty percent of the total renovation  costs,   whichever is less.5.  Funding  made  available through the contract shall not be used to   supplant local or other funds.6. Not more than forty percent of funds appropriated and  made  avail-   able  specifically  for neighborhood based initiatives shall be used for   any single project.