2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 6-D - Community Services Block Grant Program › 159-E - Definitions.

§ 159-e. Definitions. When used in this article:
1. "Eligible entity" shall mean any organization
(a)  officially designated as a community action agency or a community
action program under the provisions of section two hundred  ten  of  the
economic  opportunity  act  of  1964  for  fiscal year 1981, unless such
community  action  agency  or  a  community  action  program  lost   its
designation  under  section two hundred ten of such act as a result of a
failure to comply with the provisions of such act; or
(b) designated  by  the  process  described  in  section  one  hundred
fifty-nine-m  of this article (including an organization serving migrant
or seasonal farmworkers that is so described or designated).
Such eligible entity shall have a tripartite board  as  its  governing
board   which   fully   participates   in   the  development,  planning,
implementation, and  evaluation  of  the  program  to  serve  low-income
communities  and through which the entity shall administer the community
services block grant program. However, such eligible entities which  are
public  organizations  shall  have  either a tripartite board or another
mechanism  specified  by  the  state  to  assure  decision  making   and
participation  by  low-income  individuals in the development, planning,
implementation, and evaluation of programs funded under this article.
2. "Tripartite board" shall mean
(a) the governing board of a private nonprofit entity selected by  the
entity and composed so as to assure that
(1)  one-third  of  the  members  of  the  board  are  elected  public
officials,  holding  office  on  the  date  of   selection,   or   their
representatives,  except  that  if  the number of such elected officials
reasonably available and willing to serve on  the  board  is  less  than
one-third  of  the  membership  of the board, membership on the board of
appointive public officials or their representatives may be  counted  in
meeting such one-third requirement;
(2)  (A) not fewer than one-third of the members are persons chosen in
accordance with democratic selection procedures adequate to assure  that
these  members are representative of low-income individuals and families
in the neighborhood served; and
(B)  each  representative  of  low-income  individuals  and   families
selected  to  represent a specific neighborhood within a community under
clause (A) of this subparagraph resides in the neighborhood  represented
by the member; and
(3) the remainder of the members are officials or members of business,
industry,  labor,  religious, law enforcement, education, or other major
groups and interests in the community served; or
(b) the governing board of a public  organization,  which  shall  have
members  selected  by  the  organization  and shall be composed so as to
assure that not fewer than one-third of the members are  persons  chosen
in  accordance  with  democratic selection procedures adequate to assure
that these members
(1) are representative of low-income individuals and families  in  the
neighborhood served;
(2) reside in the neighborhood served; and
(3)  are  able  to  participate actively in the development, planning,
implementation, and evaluation of programs funded under this article.
3. "Indian tribes" and "tribal organizations" shall mean those tribes,
bands or other organized groups of Indians recognized in  the  state  or
considered  by  the  federal  secretary  of the interior to be an Indian
tribe or an Indian organization for any purpose.
4.  "Community  based  organization"  shall  mean   any   organization
incorporated  for  the purpose of providing services or other assistance
to economically or socially disadvantaged persons within its  designated

community.  Such  organization  must  have a board of directors of which
more than half of the members reside in such designated community.
5. "Department" shall mean the department of state.
6. "Secretary" shall mean the secretary of state.