New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 9 - EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT › Subtitle Y - New York State Office for the Aging › Chapter V - Combined Senior Citizen Services Center, Residential Health-care Facility And Child Day-care Center Community Grants Program › Part 6661 - Combined Intergenerational Community Grants Program › Section 6661.4 - Applications and activities

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a)
				  Combined centers funded under this Chapter shall provide and combine, to the
				  extent possible and financially feasible, services that include, but are not
				  limited to, staffing and administration, transportation, nutrition and health,
				  and the costs of utilities, heat, insurance and rent or mortgages. Program
				  models should include intergenerational program activities.
(b) Grants may be awarded for combining
				  separately existing programs or for combining newly proposed programs. Such
				  grants shall be limited to start-up costs that may include legal and
				  architectural fees, planning and administrative costs for the purpose of
				  combining such programs, moving expenses and minor capital improvements and up
				  to the first two months' expenses for salaries or wages, training, rent or
				  mortgage payments, utilities and insurance or such other start-up costs
				  identified and approved by the Office.
(c) The combining of a residential
				  health-care facility and a child day-care center on a lease or contract
				  arrangement shall be subject to the prior approval of the New York State
				  Commissioner of Health.
(d) To the
				  extent funds are available therefor, public and private not-for-profit
				  organizations and corporations may apply for grants under this Chapter on forms
				  prescribed by the Office, which shall include:
(1) plans for coordinating, combining and
				  consolidating existing or proposed senior citizen services centers, or
				  residential health-care facilities and child day-care centers;
(2) the start-up costs necessary to combine
				  such programs, which may include legal and architectural fees, planning and
				  administrative expenses for the purpose of combining such programs, moving
				  expenses and minor capital improvements, and up to the first two months'
				  expenses for salaries or wages, training, rent or mortgage payments, utilities
				  and insurance and such other start-up costs identified and approved by the
				  Office;
(3) an outline of steps to
				  be taken to ensure the health, safety and welfare of program
				  participants;
(4) innovative
				  utilization of operating funds which may include, but not be limited to,
				  pooling of administrative and support staff, insurance costs, maintenance
				  costs, transportation services, nutrition services, energy costs, building
				  space, health services and supplies, and program models including
				  intergenerational program activities;
(5) the impact and effectiveness of the
				  combined center in meeting the community's need for such programs;
(6) the range and type of services to be
				  offered and the number and types of personnel to be employed;
(7) coordination with other community
				  services;
(8) sources of revenue
				  during the term of the pilot project and anticipated revenue sources after the
				  project terminates, and the manner in which all available reimbursement for
				  services will be sought;
(9) such
				  other information as required by the Office to satisfy senior citizen services
				  center, residential health-care and child day-care regulations and licensing
				  requirements promulgated by the Office, by the State Department of Social
				  Services or by the State Commissioner of Health, and by the appropriate local
				  jurisdictions in which the proposed center is to be located;
(10) comments on the application from other
				  concerned agencies such as the designated area agency on aging, the local
				  department of social services, the local department of health, and other groups
				  concerned with the needs of the elderly or children; and
(11) such other pertinent information as the
				  Office shall require.