2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 24* - Comprehensive Employment and Training Act Allocation Review Board › 852* - Powers and Duties of the Board.

*  §  852 .  Powers  and duties of the board. The board may create and
  organize any operational units under the board as it may determine to be
  necessary for efficient and effective operation. The board shall  assign
  appropriate  functions  to  any  such  unit  and may appoint such staff,
  agents and consultants as it may  deem  necessary  and  prescribe  their
  duties and fix their compensation within the appropriation.
The board shall have the power and duty to:
1.  review  the  allocation  of  Public Law 93-203 (as amended) public
  service  jobs  by  each  prime  sponsor   of   such   jobs,   and   make
  recommendations  to  such  prime  sponsors  for  a  more  effective  and
  equitable  allocation  of  available  public  service  jobs  within  the
  community served by the prime sponsor when, in the opinion of the board,
  the  allocation of such jobs is not equitable and/or does not contribute
  to the general improvement of  the  economy  of  the  state,  nor  to  a
  restoration  of  a balance between the private and public sectors of the
  state's economy and/or does not comply with all such public  law,  rules
  and  regulations,  especially  section  99.1 (c) which specifies that at
  least fifty percent of persons hired for such public law public  service
  jobs  be  persons  who are long-term unemployed and recipients of aid to
  families with dependent children; and
2. continuously monitor the  allocation  of  such  public  law  public
  service  jobs  by  each prime sponsor in the state of New York, and make
  recommendations to the prime sponsors with respect to  ways  to  improve
  the effectiveness and equity of allocations; and
3.   conduct  inquiries  and  investigations  into  the  operation  of
  comprehensive employment and training act programs of prime sponsors  in
  the state of New York and forward its conclusions and recommendations to
  the  state  manpower services council and the United States secretary of
  labor; and
4. receive and investigate allegations of failures by  prime  sponsors
  or  any  officers,  directors,  agents or employees of prime sponsors to
  comply with such public law and its several rules and regulations and to
  report such allegations and  any  findings  or  opinions  of  the  board
  thereon  to the state manpower services council and to the United States
  secretary of labor; and
5.  continuously  monitor  the  cooperation  of   state   and   county
  manpower-related  agencies  in comprehensive employment and training act
  programs conducted by prime sponsors including the enforcement by  state
  and local social services officials of section one hundred sixty-four of
  the social services law; and
6.  request  from the state manpower services council within the state
  department of labor  and  from  any  other  department,  board,  bureau,
  commission  or other agency of the state and its political subdivisions,
  including prime sponsors, and the same are authorized  and  directed  to
  provide,  such  cooperation  and  assistance,  services and data as will
  enable the board properly to carry out its functions, powers and duties;
  and
7. make a quarterly report to the  governor  and  to  the  legislature
  commencing  June first, nineteen hundred seventy-seven, which shall be a
  public document describing and explaining the allocation of such  public
  law public service jobs within each prime sponsor community, and prepare
  and issue such other studies and reports as it deems advisable to assist
  each prime sponsor within the state of New York.
* NB Expired March 31, 1979