3745-49-52 Grant administration.

(A) Grant applications and awards

(1) Applicants shall prepare and submit grant applications on forms approved by the director. The application shall be signed by a school district official with the authority to enter into contracts on behalf of the school district.

(2) Grant applications shall be accepted and reviewed collectively in discrete granting rounds. The frequency or number of granting cycles shall be subject to the discretion of the director.

(B) The director shall establish minimum and maximum awards for each round of grant funding.

(1) Grants awarded to school districts shall require the installation of the approved control equipment as expeditiously as practicable.

(2) Grants awarded to school districts shall require the implementation of an adequate program for routine maintenance and repair of the approved control equipment.

(3) Grants awarded to school districts shall include provisions for periodic reporting and verification that the approved control equipment was installed expeditiously in accordance with the grant agreement.

(4) The director may hold in reserve a percentage of the grant until such time as the grant recipient demonstrates substantial progress in retrofitting buses under the terms of the grant agreement.

(5) The director shall not make future grant awards to a school district if he determines that the school district materially failed to comply with the terms of a prior grant award under this section and has failed to correct said deficiencies to the satisfaction of the director.

Effective: 02/01/2006

R.C. 119.032 review dates: 02/01/2011

Promulgated Under: 119.03

Statutory Authority: 3704.144

Rule Amplifies: 3704.144