N.J. Admin. Code § 9A:13-1.4

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 19, October 7, 2024

Section 9A:13-1.4 - Grant application

(a) Following approval by the governing board at a duly authorized meeting, an institution of higher education may apply to the Secretary for a grant from the Technology Fund. The institution's application shall include the following items:

1. A complete description of the proposed technology infrastructure project;

2. A copy of the institutional governing board's resolution approving the institution's application and committing the institution to support the annual operating costs of and maintenance requirements for the proposed project;

3. A summary of the institution's long-range facilities plan for technology and how the proposed project advances that plan;

4. A description of how the proposed project enhances inter-institutional or intra-institutional connectivity and information technology as these relate to advancing the instructional, research, or service/economic development missions of the institution;

5. A description of how the proposed project advances the institution toward the next level of establishing integrated voice, video, and data networks for the institution;

6. A description of how proposed inter-institutional networking enhancements are compatible with the technology infrastructure plan for New Jersey higher education originally established;

7. Identification of all direct costs associated with the acquisition or development of the proposed technology infrastructure;

8. An itemization of the proposed expenditure of grant funds and matching funds, including, but not limited to, all telecommunications equipment and linkages, transport services, network interconnections, and associated with estimated costs;

9. Identification of all revenue sources for the proposed project, including the specific source(s) of revenue for matching funds;

10. A description of how the institution will address training, staffing, and other indirect costs related to the project;

11. The useful life of any equipment to be purchased with grant funds (the useful life as determined either by reference to the Internal Revenue Service Class Life Asset Depreciation Range System set forth at Revenue Procedure 87-56, as amended, supplemented, or superseded, or by appraisal of any independent engineering or accounting firm, as appropriate);

12. The estimated timetable for completing the project;

13. Certification by the institution that the project will comply with all applicable laws, rules, codes, statutes, and government guidelines, including the principles of affirmative action and equal employment opportunity, where applicable, as specified in the Act;

14. Any additional information the institution deems necessary to demonstrate how the institution's proposed project meets the objectives identified at N.J.A.C. 9A:13-1.5(b); and

15. Other information as the Secretary may require on a case-by-case basis and relating to a specific application.

(b) Institutions shall not use as matching funds, and grant funds may not be used, to reimburse any expenditures made before the approval of a grant award by the Legislature Joint Budget Oversight Committee, except in the discretion and upon approval by the Secretary and provided that the expenditures were made for technology infrastructure and meet the requirements at N.J.A.C. 9A:13-1.3.

(c) The specific acquisitions proposed may be revised as a result of bidding processes, advances in technology, or for other reasons provided, however, that the revisions are consistent with the application approved by the governing board of the affected institution and by the Secretary.

(d) Grant applications shall be submitted in a format provided by the Secretary.

N.J. Admin. Code § 9A:13-1.4

Recodified from N.J.A.C. 9A:13-1.5 and amended by R.2013 d.072, effective 5/6/2013.
See: 45 N.J.R. 92(a), 45 N.J.R. 1132(a).
Rewrote the introductory paragraph of (a) and of (b); in (a)3, inserted "facilities"; in (a)6, inserted "originally" and deleted "by the Commission and Presidents' Council based on an interinstitutional needs assessment" from the end; in (a)11, substituted "Revenue" for "Revised" and inserted a comma following "supplemented"; in (a)13, substituted "all applicable laws, rules," for "existing", inserted a comma following "statutes", and deleted "Amending" preceding "Act" and "and" from the end; added new (a)14; recodified former (a)14 as (a)15; in (a)15, substituted "Secretary" for "Executive Director" and "application" for "proposal"; deleted former (c); recodified former (d) and (e) as (c) and (d); in (c) and (d), substituted "Secretary" for "Commission"; in (c), substituted "application" for 'proposal". Former N.J.A.C. 9A:13-1.4, Funding criteria, recodified to N.J.A.C. 9A:13-1.3.

Amended by 54 N.J.R. 1413(a), effective 7/18/2022