Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 3, March 20, 2024
A. Federal
financial participation is available in expenditures for the establishment,
development, or improvement of a public or nonprofit community rehabilitation
program for the following types of expenditures.
1. The establishment, development, or
improvement of a public or nonprofit community rehabilitation
program.
2. Staffing, if necessary
to establish, develop, or improve a community rehabilitation program for a
maximum period of four years, with federal financial participation available at
the applicable matching rate for the following levels of staffing costs:
a. 100 percent of staffing costs for the
first year;
b. 75 percent of
staffing costs the second year;
c.
60 percent of staffing costs the third year; and
d. 45 percent of staffing costs the fourth
year.
3. Other start-up
expenditures related to the establishment, development, or improvement of a
community rehabilitation program that are necessary to make the program
functional or increase its effectiveness not including operating expenditures
of the program.
B.
Federal financial participation is available in expenditures for the
establishment of a facility for community rehabilitation program purposes for
the following types of expenditures:
1. the
acquisition of an existing building, and if necessary the land in connection
with the acquisition, if the building has been completed in all respects for at
least one year prior to the date of acquisition and the federal share of the
cost of the acquisition is not more than $300,000;
2. the remodeling or alteration of an
existing building, provided the estimated cost of remodeling or alteration does
not exceed the appraised value of the existing building;
3. the expansion of an existing building,
provided that:
a. the existing building is
complete in all respects;
b. the
total size in square footage of the expanded building, notwithstanding the
number of expansions, is not greater than twice the size of the existing
building;
c. the expansion is
joined structurally to the existing building and does not constitute a separate
building; and
d. the costs of the
expansion do not exceed the appraised value of the existing building;
4. architect's fees, site survey,
and soil investigation, if necessary in connection with the acquisition,
remodeling, alteration, or expansion of an existing building; or
5. the acquisition of fixed or movable
equipment, including the costs of installation of the equipment, if necessary
to establish, develop, or improve a community rehabilitation program.
C. Funds made available to a
private nonprofit agency for the establishment of a rehabilitation facility
must be expended by that agency in accordance with procedures and standards
equivalent to those of the state unit in making direct expenditures for similar
purposes.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 49:664.6 and R.S.
36.477.
