2023 New York Laws › COM - Economic Development Law › Article 8 - Economic Development Skills Training Program › 201 - Administration.

§  201.  Administration.  1.  There  is  hereby established within the
department an economic development skills training  program  to  provide
and  leverage  skills  development  training  for  economic  development
purposes. The department shall provide assistance to applicants for  the
purpose  of  assisting individual businesses and industries in providing
skills training services.
2. The department shall:
(a) coordinate with the department of  education,  the  department  of
labor, the state university of New York, the city university and service
delivery  areas  as  established  pursuant  to  the federal job training
partnership act (P.L. 97-300) in order to carry out the purposes of this
article and  to  complement  and  leverage  related  training  resources
consistent with the purposes described herein;
(b)  upon  the  recommendation  of  the  interagency review committee,
execute and monitor grants and contracts to carry out  the  purposes  of
this  article  or  authorize  grants  and  contracts  to be executed and
monitored  by  the  department  of  labor  for  projects  which  provide
on-the-job  training  reimbursements  to businesses as described in this
article and for such labor exchange and other related  services  as  are
agreed  upon  by  the  agencies,  by  the state education department for
projects which provide classroom based training which will be  delivered
by  school  districts,  boards  of  cooperative educational services and
private degree-granting institutions of  higher  education  and  by  the
state  university  or  the  city  university  for projects which provide
classroom based training which will be delivered by community  colleges,
agricultural   and   technical   colleges,  and  public  degree-granting
institutions of higher education or authorize  such  other  arrangements
as,  upon  the  recommendation  of the interagency review committee, the
commissioner determines will advance the purposes of this program;
(c) promote awareness of  the  economic  development  skills  training
program among businesses, business organizations, and regional and local
economic  development  agencies  with  the assistance of the appropriate
state agencies;
(d)  notify  the  appropriate  private  industry  council  established
pursuant  to  the  federal job training partnership act (P.L. 97-300) of
any assistance provided pursuant to this article;
(e) ensure that at least fifty percent of the moneys available for the
purposes of this program shall be used to  assist  businesses  employing
two hundred or fewer workers; and
(f)  ensure  that  at least fifty percent of the moneys made available
shall be expended for the purpose of assisting targeted  individuals  as
defined  in  section  two  hundred  of this article or to provide skills
upgrading for currently employed individuals which results in  new  jobs
created which are filled with targeted individuals.
3.  The  interagency  review  committee shall meet regularly to review
program progress and recommend measures to improve program  coordination
of  training  policy and program delivery, to increase the potential for
leveraging of funds, to develop an evaluation program to be conducted on
a periodic basis and, within thirty days from  receipt  of  a  proposal,
make  recommendations  to  the  commissioner  on all such projects which
exceed twenty-five thousand dollars in funds provided pursuant  to  this
article.  Any  project  not acted upon by the committee within such time
period may be acted upon by the commissioner.