N.Y. Executive Law § 548-g: Evaluation

§ 548-g. Evaluation. 1. The committee shall conduct two evaluations of

the implementation and effectiveness of this article: a compilation of

individual project evaluations to be conducted in accordance with

criteria established in paragraph d of subdivision one of section five

hundred forty-eight-f of this article; and a comprehensive neighborhood

based initiatives evaluation.

a. Individual project evaluations shall be conducted pursuant to the

requirements of this article and submitted to the committee for review.

The committee shall forward its comments and criticisms to the approved

projects with recommendations of strategies for remediation of project

deficiencies. Further, the committee shall compile the evaluations and

the required comments and recommendations into a single document and

shall submit such compilation to the governor and the legislature by

January first, nineteen hundred ninety-two.

b. The committee shall cause to be prepared a comprehensive

neighborhood based initiatives evaluation, which shall assess the

efficacy and impact of the unified contract, the authorization relating

to waiver of regulations, and the statutory exemptions on the delivery

of services enacted by the legislature. In addition, the committee shall

assess the extent to which the initiative has:

i. accomplished the goals and objectives to be reported to the

legislature;

ii. improved the coordination of program development and service

provision by the agencies participating on the committee; and

iii. reduced or eliminated duplicative and conflicting regulations.

2. The committee shall submit to the governor and the legislature an

interim report, which shall include a compilation of the goals and

objectives of the approved projects, and shall supplement such

compilation with a statement of goals and objectives that relate

specifically to the state's role in policy development, administration,

and delivery of services to the targeted communities not later than

January first, nineteen hundred ninety-two.