N.Y. Executive Law § 548-f: Administration

§ 548-f. Administration. 1. Responsibilities of the department. a.

Unless otherwise prescribed, the department or its designee shall be

responsible for the administration of the provisions of this article.

b. In consultation with the committee, the department shall develop

and disseminate a request for proposals on a statewide basis, provided

however that during state fiscal year nineteen hundred

ninety-ninety-one, the committee may limit the locations for

dissemination of such request for proposals based on relevant

demographic data and such other factors as may be determined by the

committee. Not less than thirty days prior to dissemination of such

requests for proposals in such state fiscal year, the department shall

notify the temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the

assembly of such proposed locations and the criteria for selection.

c. Not less than thirty days prior to approving an application

pursuant to the provisions of this article, the committee, through the

department, shall notify the temporary president of the senate and the

speaker of the assembly of its intent to approve a project. Such

notification shall identify the recipient and state the proposed

location, the estimated project cost and a brief description of the

project. Upon completion of its review of an application and not less

than thirty days after the notification as provide for in this

paragraph, the committee shall approve or disapprove such application

and the department shall notify the applicant of its decision.

d. The commissioner of the department and the other members of the

committee shall enter into such agreements as shall be necessary to

delineate their respective roles regarding the cooperative provision of

program funding and technical assistance, and the review and monitoring

of projects.

e. The department shall provide assistance to approved projects to

develop an evaluation methodology appropriate to the goals and

objectives of the projects.

2. Neighborhood based initiatives unified contract. a. The department

shall enter into a neighborhood based initiatives unified contract with

each applicant approved by the committee. The provisions of such

contract shall include, but not be limited to: a description of project

services and activities, the action plan, the allowable project costs,

the specific sources of funds that will support the approved costs,

including state funds, local funds, other governmental funds, and all

nongovernmental funds or revenues that are proposed to be used in

support of all project costs, and the allocation of costs by funding

source.

b. The form of the neighborhood based initiatives unified contract

shall be developed in consultation with the division of the budget and

the department of audit and control.

3. The comptroller is authorized pursuant to a certificate of

allocation submitted by the division of the budget to interchange or

transfer from appropriations made to the agencies of the committee or

any other appropriation, as appropriate, such amounts as may be required

to fulfill the obligations of the state pursuant to neighborhood based

initiatives unified contracts to the department for payment of such

obligations. The division of the budget shall provide the chairmen of

the senate finance committee and the assembly ways and means committee

with quarterly reports of all interchanges and transfers which occur

pursuant to this subdivision.

4. Allowable costs for each project shall include, but not be limited

to costs reasonably incurred for:

a. preparation of the action plan required in section five hundred

forty-eight-c of this article;

b. services as approved in the project application;

c. evaluation of the approved project;

d. administration, provided however in every case, the support of

administrative costs pursuant to the contract shall be not more than the

maximum percentage authorized for each source of funding or the total

maximum dollars allowed for administrative costs for each funding

source; and

e. minor renovations to existing structures, except that in no case

shall the state support of such costs exceed either twenty-five percent

of the project contract or fifty percent of the total renovation costs,

whichever is less.

5. Funding made available through the contract shall not be used to

supplant local or other funds.

6. Not more than forty percent of funds appropriated and made avail-

able specifically for neighborhood based initiatives shall be used for

any single project.