The County-Wide Shared Services Incentive (CWSSI) program provides a process whereby each county can work with partner local governments to develop, approve, and submit to the State a County-Wide Shared Services Property Tax Savings Plan (Plan) with new shared services actions that, once implemented, may achieve demonstrable taxpayer savings.
Donor Name: New York State Department of State
State: New York
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/20/2022
Size of the Grant: $200,000
Details:
The Local Government Efficiency (LGE) Grant Program is a competitive grant program, managed by the Department of State, that incentivizes local governments to cooperatively implement projects that reduce the cost of municipal operations and modernize the delivery of local services.
Funding Information
- 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.
Eligible Projects
Two or more local government entities are eligible to apply for funding assistance to implement shared services, functional and local government consolidations, and dissolutions which are:
- Listed in a CWSSI Plan developed in 2017, 2018, 2019, or 2020 and submitted by an eligible County to the Department of State;
- Not completed. Projects that have either not been initiated or have been initiated but are not complete may be submitted for consideration.
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible local government entities are those defined as “municipalities” in paragraph s of section 54 of State Finance Law. These eligible entities may include a county, city, town, village, special improvement district, fire district, public library, association library, public library systems if they advance a joint application on behalf of its member libraries, water authority, sewer authority, regional planning and development board, school district, or board of cooperative educational services. 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).
For more information, visit County-Wide Shared Services Initiative Project Implementation Grant.