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A05365 Summary:

BILL NOA05365
 
SAME ASNo Same As
 
SPONSORJensen
 
COSPNSRBrabenec, Gallahan, DeStefano, Hawley, Durso
 
MLTSPNSRAngelino
 
Amd §54, St Fin L
 
Awards grants to municipalities for any non-transportation related capital improvement projects with a maximum cumulative grant award not exceeding $250,000 and makes an appropriation therefor.
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A05365 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          5365
 
                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    February 16, 2021
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by M. of A. JENSEN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Local Governments
 
        AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to awarding grants to
          municipalities  for capital improvement projects; and making an appro-
          priation therefor
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  10 of section 54 of the state finance law is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph v to read as follows:
     3    v. Local government capital improvement grant program. (i) (1) For the
     4  purposes of this paragraph, "municipality"  and  "municipalities"  shall
     5  mean  any city, town or village that has a population of less than seven
     6  thousand five hundred.
     7    (2) For the purposes of this  paragraph,  "total  expenditures"  shall
     8  mean  the total expenditures for a municipality as reported to the state
     9  comptroller.
    10    (3) For the purposes of this paragraph, "capital improvement projects"
    11  shall mean any non-transportation related capital improvement project on
    12  property owned by a municipality that has a total cost  of  one  hundred
    13  thousand  dollars or higher and such project exceeds ten percent of such
    14  municipality's total expenditures.
    15    (ii) Within the annual amounts appropriated therefor, the secretary of
    16  state may award matching grants to municipalities to cover costs associ-
    17  ated with capital improvement projects.
    18    (iii) The maximum cumulative grant award for a local government  capi-
    19  tal  improvement  grant  shall  not  exceed  two  hundred fifty thousand
    20  dollars.
    21    (iv) Matching funds equal to at least fifty percent of the total  cost
    22  of  the  capital  improvement  project  under  the grant approved by the
    23  department of state shall be required  to  receive  a  local  government
    24  capital improvement grant.
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09158-03-1

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     1    (v)  Within  one week of the receipt of an application, the department
     2  of state shall review the application to ensure the applicant has  filed
     3  the  correct  application,  and to determine if any required sections of
     4  the application contain no  information.  Within  one  business  day  of
     5  determining  an  applicant has filed an incorrect application, or deter-
     6  mining an application contains no information in a section  required  to
     7  contain  information,  the  department  shall  so  notify the applicant.
     8  Applicants shall be permitted to amend an application found to be  miss-
     9  ing information, and such application shall be reconsidered for approval
    10  if  it  is  amended  by  the  application  deadline. If an applicant has
    11  submitted an incorrect application, the applicant may submit the correct
    12  application to the appropriate program by the deadline for such  program
    13  for  consideration.  Under  no  circumstances shall this subparagraph be
    14  deemed to require the extension of any application deadline  established
    15  by  the  department,  nor  shall it obligate the department to conduct a
    16  substantive review of the contents of any  application  outside  of  the
    17  procedures established by the department for the purposes of maintaining
    18  the competitive integrity of the grant program.
    19    §  2. The sum of five million dollars ($5,000,000), or so much thereof
    20  as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to the department  of  state
    21  out of any moneys in the state treasury in the general fund to the cred-
    22  it of the local government capital improvement grant program, not other-
    23  wise  appropriated,  and  made immediately available, for the purpose of
    24  carrying out the provisions of this act. Such moneys shall be payable on
    25  the audit and warrant  of  the  comptroller  on  vouchers  certified  or
    26  approved  by  the  commissioner of education in the manner prescribed by
    27  law.
    28    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
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