New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 5 - DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT › Chapter IV - Economic Development Skills Training Program › Part 30 - Application, Evaluation And Administration › Section 30.5 - Application process

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) Applications
				for assistance under the Economic Development Skills Training Program shall be
				in the form prescribed by the commissioner and may be submitted by an eligible
				applicant at any time to any office of the department.
(b) Applications shall include, but not be
				limited to, the following:
(1) a description
				of the proposed project, including the type of skills training or education to
				be provided;
(2) an estimate of the
				total cost of the proposed project and an itemization of estimated costs
				associated with equipment, personnel, facilities and materials;
(3) a description of the economic development
				benefits expected to be achieved by the proposed project;
(4) a description, which may include data
				available from the Department of Labor, of the employment needs expected to be
				filled, including the number and types of jobs to be created or
				preserved;
(5) a statement of the
				technical assistance and financial support to be provided by the eligible
				applicant and the business or businesses for which a proposed project is
				designed, and from other sources;
(6) a demonstration of the extent to which
				assistance will be used to complement and leverage services available to
				businesses under other State-, local- or Federal-assisted training
				programs;
(7) a statement that for
				any positions opened as a result of training assistance, businesses shall first
				consider persons eligible to participate in Job Training Partnership Act
				programs who shall be referred to such businesses by administrative entities of
				service delivery areas created pursuant to such act or the Job Service Division
				of the Department of Labor;
(8) a
				projection of anticipated outcomes, including, as appropriate, job placement
				rates, the number of jobs to be opened to targeted individuals as a result of
				skills-upgrading activities, and promotion, or wage increases for persons
				participating in skills-upgrading projects;
(9) commitments from individual businesses to
				hire individuals who have successfully completed training;
(10) a statement, where appropriate, of the
				extent to which the proposed assistance will be used to aid small
				businesses;
(11) a statement, where
				appropriate, of the extent to which the proposed assistance will either aid
				targeted individuals, or be used to provide skills upgrading for currently
				employed individuals which will result in the creation of new jobs which will
				be filled by targeted individuals;
(12) a statement that the proposed training
				shall not impair the provisions of any existing collective bargaining agreement
				and that, where possible, consultation with the appropriate labor organization
				has been undertaken by the applicant;
(13) a description of arrangements developed
				through other resources to provide child-care assistance for trainees in need
				of such assistance; and
(14) a
				statement describing how the proposed project conforms to the annual statewide
				economic development strategic plan.