Florida Administrative Code › 62 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 62 - Departmental › Chapter 62-818 - FLORIDA FOREVER PROGRAM, GRANT APPLICATION PROCEDURES › Section 62-818.007 - Project Evaluation Criteria

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
The evaluation of Applications shall be based on the criteria
				  set forth in this rule chapter and in Application Form FCT-5 (eff. 2-8-10),
				  incorporated herein by reference. Trust staff will be responsible for
				  evaluating Applications and recommending point scores to the Governing Board.
				  Trust staff shall utilize the information contained in the Application
				  (including exhibits) and all information obtained during its review of the
				  Application for scoring recommendations to the Governing Board. Personnel from
				  other state agencies, regional planning councils, water management districts,
				  and other public and private groups may assist the Trust staff in project
				  evaluation as requested by Trust staff on an application-by-application basis.
				  Unless otherwise noted, an Application shall receive all the points assigned to
				  a particular criterion if the criterion is met; no partial scores will be given
				  for a criterion. If a criterion does not apply to the proposed Project Site,
				  the Applicant should state "No" in the response to the criterion.
(1) Furtherance of specified general
				standards (points may be awarded based on the following criteria):
(a) Pre-acquired. The entire Project Site has
				been acquired by the Applicant through a voluntarily-negotiated transaction
				within 24 months prior to the Application deadline (10 points).
(b) The Project Site has not been the subject
				of a land use or zoning change that would allow an increase of either allowable
				density or intensity within the last three (3) years prior to the Application
				deadline (5 points).
(c) Phased
				Project. The Project Site is adjacent (or adjacent through public ownership) to
				a previous project that was acquired with Trust funding such that it
				constitutes a Phased Project (5 points).
(d) Providing a greater share of the Match.
				The Applicant is committed to:
1. Provide a
				Match between 40 percent to 49 percent of the Project Costs, or, for small
				Local Governments as defined in subparagraph
				 62-818.003(8)(c) 
				1., F.A.C., and eligible non-profit applicants, a Match between 10 percent and
				19 percent of the Project Costs (10 points), or
2. Provide a Match between 50 percent to 59
				percent of the Project Costs, or, for small Local Governments as defined in
				subparagraph  62-818.003(8)(c) 
				1., F.A.C., and eligible non-profit applicants a Match between 20 percent and
				29 percent of the Project Costs (20 points), or
3. Provide a Match for 60 percent or more of
				the Project Costs, or, for small Local Governments as defined in subparagraph
				 62-818.003(8)(c) 
				1., F.A.C., and eligible non-profit applicants, a Match for 30 percent or more
				of the Project Costs (25 points).
(e) The grant award amount requested is
				within the following thresholds.
(Points will be awarded on only one of the following
				  criteria):
1. The Applicant is
				requesting a grant award amount that does not exceed $1, 500, 000.00 (8
				points),
2. The Applicant is
				requesting a grant award amount that does not exceed $2, 500, 000.00 (4
				points),
3. The Applicant is
				requesting a grant award amount that does not exceed $3, 500, 000.00 (2
				points).
The Trust will not participate in Project Costs that exceed
				  the grant award amount.
(f) No prior funding. This is the Applicant's
				first Application to the Trust, or the Applicant has previously submitted an
				Application that was either not funded or was funded but not acquired. (In the
				case of a Partnership Application, if any of the partners have received funding
				and the Project Site was acquired, then no points will be awarded.) (5
				points).
(g) Innovative
				Acquisition. The proposed project provides for alternatives to the Acquisition
				of fee interests in land through the acquisition of at least 25 percent of the
				acreage of the Project Site with a minimum of five acres through conservation
				easements (5 points).