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: 05/10/2024
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Funding Information

For this solicitation approximately $1.3 million is allocated for implementation projects and approximately $200,000 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.

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).
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 year

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 advancesa 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).

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