2015 New York Laws
LAB - Labor
Article 24 - (Labor) WORKER ADJUSTMENT ACT
838 - Substate grantees.

  838. Substate grantees. 1. Substate grantees shall be designated on
  a biennial basis through agreement between the governor,  local  elected
  officials and private industry councils pursuant to the act.
(a)  preference  for  selection shall be given to those entities which
  have demonstrated  fiscal  and  administrative  capability  to  directly
  administer  basic  readjustment  and  retraining  services  and  provide
  support services or have demonstrated  the  administrative  capacity  to
  contract out for such services.
(b)   entities  eligible  for  selection  as  substate  grantees  must
  demonstrate the capacity to  administer  the  required  services  either
  directly  or  by contract continuously through the period covered by the
  substate plan, and include:
(i) private industry councils in the substate area;
(ii)  service  delivery  area  grant  recipients   or   administrative
  entities;
(iii) private nonprofit organizations;
(iv)  units  of  general  local  government  in  the  substate area or
  agencies thereof;
(v) local offices of state agencies; and
(vi) other public  agencies,  such  as  community  colleges  and  area
  vocational schools.
2.  Substate  grantees shall administer substate activities as defined
  in subdivision two of section eight hundred thirty-nine of this article.
3. The state shall establish procedures to review the  designation  of
  substate grantees on a biennial basis. Such procedures shall include the
  use  of  evaluation  data defined in section eight hundred forty-nine of
  this article.