2023 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; and
e. 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.