New York Codes, Rules and Regulations
Title 21 - Miscellaneous
Chapter L - New York State Urban Development Corporation
Part 4211 - Regional Economic Development Partnership Program
Section 4211.7 - Training projects and training assessment projects
Universal Citation: 21 NY Comp Codes Rules and Regs ยง 4211.7
Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 12, March 20, 2024
(a) Training projects.
(1) Assistance available. The corporation may
make grants, as set forth below and within available appropriations, of up to
$200,000 or 50 percent of total project cost, whichever is less, for training
projects. A training project is a project that consists of a program of
employment training and retraining, skills upgrading, including remediation,
productivity enhancement or high performance work organization strategies,
including total quality management, in connection with a specific eligible
company or industry which has committed to create positions for, or retain the
project's trainees. An eligible company is an industrial, manufacturing,
commercial, research and development, high technology, tourism, agricultural or
service company that is not a retail business or overnight lodging
facility.
(2) Eligibility. To be
eligible for training project grant assistance, the project must:
(i) be consistent with the regional strategic
plan, as evidenced by the certification of the regional council or the
corporation, as the case may be, in accordance with section
4211.11(b)
of this Part;
(ii) have received
commitments for the use of other public or private development funds for the
purpose of the prevention of worker dislocation or the creation of new
employment opportunities;
(iii) be
unable to obtain sufficient funding on reasonable terms from other public or
private sources to permit the project to proceed without the requested
assistance;
(iv) be intended and
likely to be completed within one year of its implementation; and
(v) be reviewed and approved by the State
Department of Economic Development.
(3) Eligible grant recipients. Applicants
eligible to receive training project grants shall be limited to:
(i) eligible companies;
(ii) boards of cooperative educational
services, community colleges, agricultural and technical colleges, and
degree-granting institutions of higher education (including the State
University of New York and its affiliates);
(iii) eligible local governments and private
industry councils established pursuant to the Job Training Partnership Act ( 29
U.S.C. 1501 et seq.); and
(iv)
not-for-profit organizations, including local development corporations and
industrial development agencies.
(4) Eligible costs. Training project grants
made by the corporation hereunder may finance the following:
(i) the salaries, but not fringe benefits, of
instructors and trainers hired to conduct the training project;
(ii) the costs of materials and supplies used
exclusively for carrying out a training project;
(iii) the salaries, but not fringe benefits,
of trainees participating in the training project, provided that such trainees
are not providing services or producing goods while receiving such
salaries;
(iv) the administrative
costs associated with implementing the training project and operating expenses
incurred by eligible grant recipients other than eligible companies, for the
salaries and fringe benefits of employees, not to exceed 10 percent of the
training project grant.
(5) Ineligible projects. Training project
grant assistance may not be provided to:
(i)
the State, or any agency, department, authority, public benefit corporation or
political subdivision thereof, except as otherwise expressly provided for in
this section (the State);
(ii) a
full-time employee of the State or of any State agency, department, authority,
public benefit corporation, or political subdivision (a State employee);
or
(iii) any entity that is
controlled or a majority of which is owned by the State or a State
employee.
(6) Terms.
(i) Eligible companies assisted by training
project grants must agree to implement the corporation's disadvantaged worker's
equity policy.
(ii) Training
project grant recipients must submit to the corporation, upon completion of the
project, a report analyzing the project, including the following:
(a) a description of the eligible company or
industry served by the project, including size and business sector;
(b) a description of the training activity
actually provided, including the number of individuals who enrolled in the
project and the number of individuals who successfully completed the
project;
(c) evidence of linkages,
if any, with other publicly funded training programs; and
(d) description of outcomes achieved
including number of job placements, jobs retained, jobs created or a measure of
productivity improvement.
(b) Training assessment projects.
(1) Assistance available. The corporation may
make grants, as set forth below and within available appropriations, of up to
$50,000 for training assessment projects. A training assessment project is a
project that consists of assessing the need of, and/or providing technical
assistance to, one or more eligible companies or industries, as defined in
paragraph (a)(1) of this section, in connection with the implementation of new,
high performance work organization strategies, including total quality
management programs.
(2)
Eligibility. To be eligible for training assessment project grant assistance,
the project must:
(i) be consistent with the
regional strategic plan, as evidenced by the certification of the regional
council or by the corporation, as the case may be, in accordance with section
4211.11(b)
of this Part;
(ii) be unable to
obtain sufficient funding on reasonable terms from other public or private
sources to permit the project to proceed without the requested
assistance;
(iii) be intended and
likely to be implemented within a one-year period; and
(iv) be reviewed and approved by the State
Department of Economic Development.
(3) Eligible grant recipients. Applicants
eligible to receive training assessment project grants shall be limited to:
(i) not-for-profit organizations, including
local development corporations and industrial development agencies;
and
(ii) eligible
companies.
(4) Eligible
costs. Training assessment project grants made by the corporation hereunder may
finance the following:
(i) the salaries, but
not fringe benefits, of personnel conducting the project;
(ii) the costs of materials and supplies used
exclusively for carrying out the project; and
(iii) the administrative costs associated
with implementing the training assessment project and operating expenses
incurred by eligible grant recipients other than eligible companies, for the
salaries and fringe benefits of employees, not to exceed 10 percent of the
training assessment project grant.
(5) Ineligible projects. Training assessment
project grant assistance may not be provided to:
(i) the State, or any agency, department,
authority, public benefit corporation or political subdivision
thereof;
(ii) a full-time employee
of the State or of any State agency, department, authority, public benefit
corporation, or political subdivision (a State employee); or
(iii) any entity that is controlled or a
majority of which is owned by the State or a State employee.
(6) Terms. Training assessment
project grant recipients must submit to the corporation, upon completion of the
project, a report analyzing the project including, as appropriate:
(i) a description of the firm(s) or
industry/ies that were the subject of the project;
(ii) description of the services
performed;
(iii) description of the
outcomes achieved;
(iv) description
of the recommendations for training made.
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