New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 21 - Miscellaneous › Chapter L - New York State Urban Development Corporation › Part 4211 - Regional Economic Development Partnership Program › Section 4211.7 - Training projects and training assessment projects

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) Training projects.
(1) Assistance available. The corporation may
				make grants, as set forth below and within available appropriations, of up to
				$200,000 or 50 percent of total project cost, whichever is less, for training
				projects. A training project is a project that consists of a program of
				employment training and retraining, skills upgrading, including remediation,
				productivity enhancement or high performance work organization strategies,
				including total quality management, in connection with a specific eligible
				company or industry which has committed to create positions for, or retain the
				project's trainees. An eligible company is an industrial, manufacturing,
				commercial, research and development, high technology, tourism, agricultural or
				service company that is not a retail business or overnight lodging
				facility.
(2) Eligibility. To be
				eligible for training project grant assistance, the project must:
(i) be consistent with the regional strategic
				plan, as evidenced by the certification of the regional council or the
				corporation, as the case may be, in accordance with section
				4211.11(b) of
				this Part;
(ii) have received
				commitments for the use of other public or private development funds for the
				purpose of the prevention of worker dislocation or the creation of new
				employment opportunities;
(iii) be
				unable to obtain sufficient funding on reasonable terms from other public or
				private sources to permit the project to proceed without the requested
				assistance;
(iv) be intended and
				likely to be completed within one year of its implementation; and
(v) be reviewed and approved by the State
				Department of Economic Development.
(3) Eligible grant recipients. Applicants
				eligible to receive training project grants shall be limited to:
(i) eligible companies;
(ii) boards of cooperative educational
				services, community colleges, agricultural and technical colleges, and
				degree-granting institutions of higher education (including the State
				University of New York and its affiliates);
(iii) eligible local governments and private
				industry councils established pursuant to the Job Training Partnership Act ( 29
				U.S.C. 1501 et seq.); and
(iv)
				not-for-profit organizations, including local development corporations and
				industrial development agencies.
(4) Eligible costs. Training project grants
				made by the corporation hereunder may finance the following:
(i) the salaries, but not fringe benefits, of
				instructors and trainers hired to conduct the training project;
(ii) the costs of materials and supplies used
				exclusively for carrying out a training project;
(iii) the salaries, but not fringe benefits,
				of trainees participating in the training project, provided that such trainees
				are not providing services or producing goods while receiving such
				salaries;
(iv) the administrative
				costs associated with implementing the training project and operating expenses
				incurred by eligible grant recipients other than eligible companies, for the
				salaries and fringe benefits of employees, not to exceed 10 percent of the
				training project grant.
(5) Ineligible projects. Training project
				grant assistance may not be provided to:
(i)
				the State, or any agency, department, authority, public benefit corporation or
				political subdivision thereof, except as otherwise expressly provided for in
				this section (the State);
(ii) a
				full-time employee of the State or of any State agency, department, authority,
				public benefit corporation, or political subdivision (a State employee);
				or
(iii) any entity that is
				controlled or a majority of which is owned by the State or a State
				employee.
(6) Terms.
(i) Eligible companies assisted by training
				project grants must agree to implement the corporation's disadvantaged worker's
				equity policy.
(ii) Training
				project grant recipients must submit to the corporation, upon completion of the
				project, a report analyzing the project, including the following:
(a) a description of the eligible company or
				industry served by the project, including size and business sector;
(b) a description of the training activity
				actually provided, including the number of individuals who enrolled in the
				project and the number of individuals who successfully completed the
				project;
(c) evidence of linkages,
				if any, with other publicly funded training programs; and
(d) description of outcomes achieved
				including number of job placements, jobs retained, jobs created or a measure of
				productivity improvement.