N.Y. Economic Development Law § 201: Administration

§ 201. Administration. 1. There is hereby established within the

department an economic development skills training program to provide

and leverage skills development training for economic development

purposes. The department shall provide assistance to applicants for the

purpose of assisting individual businesses and industries in providing

skills training services.

2. The department shall:

(a) coordinate with the department of education, the department of

labor, the state university of New York, the city university and service

delivery areas as established pursuant to the federal job training

partnership act (P.L. 97-300) in order to carry out the purposes of this

article and to complement and leverage related training resources

consistent with the purposes described herein;

(b) upon the recommendation of the interagency review committee,

execute and monitor grants and contracts to carry out the purposes of

this article or authorize grants and contracts to be executed and

monitored by the department of labor for projects which provide

on-the-job training reimbursements to businesses as described in this

article and for such labor exchange and other related services as are

agreed upon by the agencies, by the state education department for

projects which provide classroom based training which will be delivered

by school districts, boards of cooperative educational services and

private degree-granting institutions of higher education and by the

state university or the city university for projects which provide

classroom based training which will be delivered by community colleges,

agricultural and technical colleges, and public degree-granting

institutions of higher education or authorize such other arrangements

as, upon the recommendation of the interagency review committee, the

commissioner determines will advance the purposes of this program;

(c) promote awareness of the economic development skills training

program among businesses, business organizations, and regional and local

economic development agencies with the assistance of the appropriate

state agencies;

(d) notify the appropriate private industry council established

pursuant to the federal job training partnership act (P.L. 97-300) of

any assistance provided pursuant to this article;

(e) ensure that at least fifty percent of the moneys available for the

purposes of this program shall be used to assist businesses employing

two hundred or fewer workers; and

(f) ensure that at least fifty percent of the moneys made available

shall be expended for the purpose of assisting targeted individuals as

defined in section two hundred of this article or to provide skills

upgrading for currently employed individuals which results in new jobs

created which are filled with targeted individuals.

3. The interagency review committee shall meet regularly to review

program progress and recommend measures to improve program coordination

of training policy and program delivery, to increase the potential for

leveraging of funds, to develop an evaluation program to be conducted on

a periodic basis and, within thirty days from receipt of a proposal,

make recommendations to the commissioner on all such projects which

exceed twenty-five thousand dollars in funds provided pursuant to this

article. Any project not acted upon by the committee within such time

period may be acted upon by the commissioner.