New York Codes, Rules and Regulations
Title 19 - DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Chapter XV - Local Government Services
Part 814 - Shared Municipal Services Incentive Awards
Section 814.5 - Review and approval criteria
Universal Citation: 19 NY Comp Codes Rules and Regs ยง 814.5
Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 12, March 20, 2024
(a) All applications will be rated in accordance with the rating system established by the secretary. Criteria used to rate applications will generally include the following:
(1) Demonstrated need for the
project.
(2) The likelihood of
timely completion of the project.
(3) The potential for municipal cost savings,
productivity enhancement or streamlined administration.
(4) The number of municipalities involved or
the size of the service area.
(5)
The likelihood of instituting permanent changes to municipal structure or
service delivery resulting in cost savings, enhanced productivity or
streamlined administration over the long term.
(6) The ability of the project to serve as a
demonstration program for other municipalities to reduce costs, enhance
productivity or streamline administration.
(7) Whether the project would advance other
State or municipal programs for municipal efficiency and cost
savings.
(8) The geographic
distribution of other fundable projects in any given application
cycle.
(b) In the selection of grant awards for applications submitted on or after April 1, 2007, priority shall be given to applications that:
(1) Include a municipality that meets any of
the following fiscal distress criteria;
(i)
Full valuation per capita less than 50 percent of the average full valuation
per capita for municipalities in New York State.
(ii) A population at least 10 percent less
than the population as reported in the 1970 Federal decennial census.
(iii) Greater than 60 percent real property
tax limit exhausted in the most recent local fiscal year as reported to the
Division of the Budget by the State Comptroller.
(iv) A percentage of individuals living below
the poverty level, as reported for a municipality in the most recent Federal
decennial census, in excess of 150 percent of the average percentage of
individuals living below the poverty level as reported for municipalities in
the most recent Federal decennial census.
(2) Plan or implement the consolidation,
merger or dissolution of municipalities.
(3) Share services between school districts
and other municipalities, including application submitted by boards of
cooperative educational services.
(4) Share highway services, including joint
highway equipment purchases, capital improvements that benefit two or more
municipal highway departments, contractual services between two or more
municipal highway departments or for the consolidation of two or more municipal
highway departments.
(5)
Consolidate health benefit plans offered by two or more
municipalities.
(6) Encourage
countywide shared services, where a county develops a countywide shared
services plan under which municipalities in such county agree to participate in
shared services, including, but not limited to, public safety, purchasing,
payroll and real property tax assessment.
(c) Awards shall be granted only for services that would otherwise be individually provided by each grantee and for which demonstrable financial savings result from such sharing, unless awards are for feasibility studies.
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