N.Y. Economic Development Law § 212: Reporting

§ 212. Reporting. The department shall:

1. Monitor the performance of each entrepreneurial assistance center

and require quarterly and annual reports from each entrepreneurial

assistance center at such time and in such a manner as prescribed by the

commissioner.

2. Evaluate the entrepreneurial assistance centers established under

this article and report annually, on or before January first, two

thousand twenty, and on or before each January first thereafter, and

submit the results of such evaluation to the governor and the

legislature. Such report shall discuss the extent to which the centers

serve minority group members, women, individuals with a disability,

dislocated workers and veterans; the extent to which the training

program is coordinated with other assistance programs targeted to small

and new businesses; the ability of such program to leverage other

sources of funding and support; and the success of the program in aiding

entrepreneurs to start up new businesses, including the number of new

business start-ups resulting from the program. Such report shall

recommend changes and improvements in the training program and in the

quality of supplemental technical assistance offered to graduates of the

training programs. The report shall be made available to the public on

the department's website.

3. Submit to the director of the division of the budget, the

chairperson of the senate finance committee and the chairperson of the

assembly ways and means committee an evaluation of the effectiveness of

the programs established under this article prepared by an entity

independent of the department. Such evaluation shall be submitted by

January first, two thousand twenty-one and by January first every two

years thereafter.

4. Between evaluation due dates, maintain the necessary records and

data required to satisfy such evaluation requirements and to satisfy

information requests received from the director of the budget, the

chairperson of the senate finance committee and the chairperson of the

assembly ways and means committee between such evaluation due dates.