The Local Government Efficiency (LGE) Grant program is intended to incentivize new actions between local governments that will reduce the cost of municipal operations and modernize the delivery of local services, thereby limiting growth in property taxes.
Donor Name: New York State Department of Local Government Services
State: New York
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/28/2023
Size of the Grant:
- Implementation Grant: $200,000 – $1,000,000
- Planning Grant: $12,500 – $100,000
Details:
Applicants must illustrate significant commitment to project completion and clearly demonstrate, through financial estimates and performance measures, the long-term benefit to New York taxpayers.
Funding Information
- This year approximately $3.6 million is allocated for implementation projects and approximately $400,000 for planning projects. All awards are reimbursement grants to successful applicants
- The total maximum cumulative funding for an Implementation Grant is $200,000 for each local government involved in the project, not to exceed $1,000,000. The maximum funding for a Planning Grant is $12,500 for each local government involved in the project, not to exceed $100,000. Award limits apply to existing LGE awards that include a new phase of development but not new partners.
Eligible Expenses
Local Government Efficiency Grants may be used to cover costs integral to project implementation including, but not limited to:
- legal and consultant services;
- capital improvements and equipment; and,
- transitional personnel costs not to exceed three years.
Eligible Projects
- Two or more local governments are eligible to apply for funding assistance to plan for and implement shared services, functional consolidations and local government consolidations and dissolutions not eligible under the Citizens Reorganization and Empowerment Grant (CREG)
- Applications are evaluated based on the potential municipal tax levy impact, project need, service delivery benefits, operational changes, local and regional capacity, project readiness (ability to complete the project in 5 years) and the comprehensiveness and specificity of the work plan and budget.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible local government entities are counties, cities, towns, villages, special improvement districts, fire districts, public libraries, association libraries, public library systems (if they advance a joint application on behalf of member libraries), water authorities, sewer authorities, regional planning and development boards, school districts, and Boards of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES). A board of cooperative educational services will be considered a municipality only in instances where such board of cooperative educational services advances a joint application on behalf of school districts and other municipalities within the board of cooperative educational services region, but any agreement with a board of cooperative educational services:
- Will not generate additional state aid;
- Will be deemed not to be a part of the program, capital and administrative budgets of the board of cooperative educational services for the purposes of computing charges upon component school districts pursuant to Education Law § 1950(1),(4)(b)(7) or §1951(1); and
- Will be deemed to be a cooperative municipal service for purposes of Education Law § 1950(4)(d)(2)
- To be eligible for funding, past awardees must have demonstrated responsible contracting in any past or current Department of State (DOS) contract.
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