Illinois Administrative Code › Title 23 - EDUCATION AND CULTURAL RESOURCES › Part 3200 - PUBLIC MUSEUM GRANTS PROGRAM › Subpart A - CAPITAL GRANTS PROGRAM › Section 3200.10 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
"Attendance" means the documented number of visitors at the
				  public museum's facility or facilities for the preceding calendar year.
"Capital Expenditure" means an outlay of capital that confers
				  long-term benefits that permanently improve the property's value or usefulness.
				  Capital expenditures generally include, but are not limited to, one or more of
				  the following purposes: architectural planning and engineering design;
				  demolition (in preparation for additional work); site preparation and
				  improvement; utility work; new construction of buildings and structures;
				  reconstruction or improvement of existing buildings or structures; construction
				  of permanent exhibits; initial furniture and equipment integral to the project;
				  replacement of currently utilized assets by a better asset; and expansion of
				  existing buildings or facilities.
Work that constitutes repairs, maintenance or remodeling of a
				  limited nature or scope, which is not done as part of a larger bondable
				  project, shall not be considered bondable capital expenditures. A non-bondable
				  project is generally one that maintains or preserves the existing conditions,
				  use or size of a capital asset and that is neither in the nature of a
				  betterment nor a change to the capital asset's condition, use or size.
				  Generally, such work does not significantly add to the value of the capital
				  asset nor appreciably prolong the life of the capital asset.
The following are operating or other types of expenditures
				  that are not considered capital expenditures:
projects with a total cost of less than $25,000;
acquisition of museum collections, objects, or
				  specimens;
feasibility studies, long-range development plans, master
				  plans, and historical or archaeological research;
development of temporary or traveling exhibits;
repair to current exhibits;
costs of repairs or maintenance that are normally anticipated
				  to occur;
remodeling of a limited nature or scope, that is not done as
				  part of a larger bondable project;
costs of staff or resident labor and material;
operational and administrative expenses;
installation of fire alarms, smoke detectors, or connections
				  of building monitoring systems to a central or off-site central monitor, unless
				  included in a larger bondable project; and
purchase of vehicles or construction equipment.
"Care" means the keeping of adequate records pertaining to
				  the provenance, identification and location of the museum's holdings, and the
				  application of current professionally accepted methods to their security and to
				  the minimization of damage and deterioration.
"Certification" means an attestation by a unit of local
				  government that a museum that is not operated by or located on land owned by a
				  unit of local government meets the eligibility criteria established in State
				  law.
"Community" means the population base normally served by the
				  public museum.
"Department" means the Illinois Department of Natural
				  Resources.
"Director" means the Director of the Department.
"Fiscal Agent" means an affiliated entity that may expend and
				  receive funds on behalf of the public museum. If grant funds are to be
				  distributed to a fiscal agent on behalf of the public museum, the chief
				  executive officer or the public museum must sign a statement certifying:
that there is an ongoing relationship between the public
				  museum and the fiscal agent;
that the fiscal agent may incur expenses for the public
				  museum's project; and
that grant funds will be used specifically for the public
				  museum's project.
"Matching Funds" means local government and/or private funds
				  committed to the proposed project. State and federal funds are not eligible as
				  matching funds.
"Nonprofit" means that the public museum has documentary
				  evidence of its tax-exempt status under the regulations of the U.S. Internal
				  Revenue Service.
"Organized" means that the public museum is a duly
				  constituted body with expressed responsibilities.
"Permanent" means that the public museum has been open to the
				  public, for its instruction and enjoyment, for at least 2 years and is expected
				  to continue in perpetuity.
"Professional Staff" means that the public museum has at
				  least one paid employee, who commands an appropriate body of special knowledge
				  and the ability to reach museological, zoological, aquarium, or botanical
				  (whichever shall be applicable) decisions consonant with the experience of his
				  or her peers, and who has access to and acquaintance with the literature of the
				  field, and that such employee works sufficient hours to meet adequately the
				  current demands of administration and care.
"Public Museum" means a facility that has been open to the
				  public, for its instruction and enjoyment for at least two years and that is
				  operating for the purposes of promoting cultural development through special
				  activities or programs or performing arts and acquiring, conserving,
				  preserving, studying, interpreting, enhancing, and, in particular, organizing
				  and continuously exhibiting (subject to temporary interruption due to
				  construction or catastrophe) specimens, artifacts, tangible objects, articles,
				  documents and other things of historical, anthropological, archaeological,
				  industrial, scientific or artistic import.
"Schedule" means regular and predictable hours which
				  constitute substantially more than a token opening, so that access is
				  reasonably convenient to the public.
"Tangible Objects" means specimens, artifacts, articles,
				  documents; non-domesticated plants or animals, including fish; and other things
				  of historical, anthropological, archeological, industrial, scientific or
				  artistic import that form the public museum collections and have intrinsic
				  value to history, science, art or culture.
"Unit of Local Government" means counties, municipalities,
				  townships, special districts and units, designated as units of local government
				  by Illinois law, which exercise limited governmental power or powers in respect
				  to limited governmental subjects, but does not include school
				  districts.