New Jersey Administrative Code|Section 9A:13-1.4 - Grant application

                                                
 § 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 infrastructure 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 interinstitutional or intrainstitutional 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 interinstitutional 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 of the proposed technology infrastructure;
 
8. An itemization of the proposed expenditure of the grant and matching funds, including all telecommunications equipment and linkages, transport services, network interconnections, and associated expenditures of up to 10 percent of matching funds, with estimated costs;
 
9. Identification of all revenue sources for the proposed project, including the specific source(s) of revenue for matching funds for the grant requested;
 
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 as determined either by reference to the Internal Revenue Service Class Life Asset Depreciation Range System set forth in Revenue Procedure 87-56, as amended, supplemented, or superseded, or by appraisal of any independent engineering or accounting firm, as appropriate;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 acquisition and installation of the technology infrastructure;
 
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 infrastructure project meets the objectives identified in 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, except in the discretion and upon approval by the Secretary and provided that the expenditures were made for technology infrastructure and meet the requirements of 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 that the revisions are consistent with the application approved by the governing board of the affected institution and by the Secretary.
 
(d) Grant requests shall be submitted in a format provided by the Secretary.
 (Recodified from N.J.A.C. 9A:13-1.5 and amended by R.2013 d.072, effective May 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.)