Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 060 - Lands and Investments, Office of › Sub-Agency 0003 - Loan and Investment Board › Chapter 22 - NON-IMPACT ACCOUNT GRANTS - INDIVIDUAL APPLICATIONS › Section 22-5 - Grant Eligibility

Current through July 13, 2024
(a) Applicants.
				Incorporated cities and towns, counties, special districts and joint powers
				boards that are not eligible to receive funding from State Loan and Investment
				Board rules Chapter 20 shall be eligible to apply for grants under this
				chapter. Applicants cannot receive funding for the same project from this
				Chapter and Chapter 21, State Loan and Investment Board rules. If the applicant
				is a special district or joint powers board, it must be legally formed and
				approved prior to submitting an application and the appropriate Board of County
				Commissioners must sponsor the application. An applicant must be in compliance
				with all applicable reporting requirements with the Wyoming Department of Audit
				prior to its application being considered by the Board.
(b) Purposes. Pursuant to
				W.S.
				9-4-604 and Laws 2006, Chapter 35, Section
				317(c) the Board shall provide grants in the general categories of
				transportation, including roads, bridges, streets, traffic and drainage;
				utilities, including water, wastewater, solid waste and electricity; public
				safety, including county jails, law enforcement, fire protection and animal
				control; medical, including hospitals, clinics and ambulances; and other
				categories, including but not limited to, local government buildings and public
				use facilities. The Board shall award grants in such a way that except for
				emergency situations none of the categories listed in this subsection shall be
				given preferential treatment. In order to comply with this provision the Office
				shall calculate the total grant requests received for consideration at each
				grant meeting for each category. The Office will then calculate the percentage
				requested in each category to the total requests received, except for emergency
				situations. The Director will recommend funding and the Board shall approve
				funding for each category in its approximate percentage to the total requests
				received for that category.
(c)
				Maximum Grant Percentage. Pursuant to Laws 2006, Chapter 35, Section 317(c) the
				Board after considering the applicant's financial strength may waive or reduce
				any matching funds required by W.S. W.S.
				W.S.
				9-4-604. The Board will use the following
				guidelines to determine grant percentages.
(i) All eligible applicants are presumed
				eligible to receive a grant up to 50% of eligible project costs.
(ii) The Board may make grants up to 75% to
				counties, hospital and fire districts if the Board determines that
(A) the county either levied at least eleven
				(11) mills for operating expenses during the current fiscal year or is imposing
				the optional tax permitted by W.S. W.S.
				W.S.
				39-15-204(a)(i) or (iii) at
				the time of the application and
(B)
				the county in which the project is located has an assessed valuation equal to
				or less than two and one-half percent (2.5%) of the State's total assessed
				valuation. The Office will use the current annual report from the Wyoming
				Department of Revenue to determine assessed valuation. The Office will use the
				current federal census to determine population. If the applicant is a hospital
				district or fire district it must also levy the maximum mill levy available to
				the district.
(iii) The
				Board may award grants up to 75% of the eligible project cost to municipalities
				if the Board determines that the municipality at the time of application:
(A) levied at least seven (7) mills for
				operating expenses including special district levies chargeable against the
				general city or town levy during the current fiscal year or is imposing the
				optional tax permitted by W.S. W.S.
				W.S.
				39-15-204(a)(i) or (iii) at
				the time of the application and
(B)
				has a population of less than 1,300 according to the latest federal census
				and/or
(C) is located within a
				county where the three-year average of the local government share of state
				sales and use tax per capita is less than seventy percent (70%) of the
				statewide average.
(iv)
				Waiver or Reduction of match requirements. The Board may reduce or waive the
				above match requirements after considering the applicant's financial strength
				and upon written request from the applicant at the time it makes application.
				Factors that the Board may consider when reducing or waiving match include but
				are not limited to the total mills levied against all properties in the
				jurisdiction of the applicant, the total sales and use tax levy in the county
				in which the applicant is located and the ratio of debt to the assessed
				valuation of the applicant.