Bill Text: NY S03362 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Establishes a kitchen incubator/shared-use kitchen facility program within the urban development corporation; provides grant funding to local development corporations, municipalities, educational institutions and not-for-profit entities for the development or expansion of kitchen incubator/shared-use kitchen facilities which make available services such as food production, technical assistance, business management and marketing, distribution, storage and retailing assistance, particularly in economically distressed areas.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-20 - SUBSTITUTED BY A8292A [S03362 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S03362-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3362--A 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 23, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sens. KRUEGER, HAMILTON, MONTGOMERY, SERRANO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions -- recommitted to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the New York state urban development corporation act, in relation to kitchen incubator/shared-use kitchen facilities The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 1 of chapter 174 of the laws of 1968, constituting 2 the New York state urban development corporation act, is amended by 3 adding a new section 16-bb to read as follows: 4 § 16-bb. Small business kitchen incubator/shared-use kitchen program. 5 1. There is hereby established within the corporation a small business 6 kitchen incubator/shared-use kitchen program. The corporation is author- 7 ized within available appropriations in the empire state economic devel- 8 opment fund established pursuant to section sixteen-i of this act, to 9 award grants, on a competitive basis in response to request-for-propo- 10 sals, to local development corporations, municipalities, educational 11 institutions, and other not-for-profit organizations for the costs 12 involved in starting or expanding a kitchen incubator/shared-use kitchen 13 facility. The corporation is further authorized to contract with the 14 commissioner of agriculture and markets, and such commissioner is 15 authorized to contract with the corporation, to prepare and issue 16 requests for proposals, accept grant applications, recommend those 17 applications that best meet established criteria, to establish criteria 18 and to administer grants awarded under this subdivision. Such grants 19 may be used for the construction or rehabilitation of such facility, 20 purchase of equipment, training, technical assistance, and other 21 purposes necessary for the successful development or expansion of a 22 kitchen incubator/shared-use kitchen facility. Kitchen incubator/shared- 23 use kitchen facilities shall be food processing or preparation facili- 24 ties that are operated by not-for-profit corporations or government EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD06262-03-8S. 3362--A 2 1 agencies and used primarily by small and emerging businesses, including 2 both full-time facility tenants and businesses that rent space on a 3 temporary basis. They must provide or make available for facility busi- 4 nesses: low-cost space, below current market value in the area the 5 facility serves; and support services, including but not limited to, 6 business planning, management assistance, financial packaging, linkages 7 to financing sources, and coordination with other sources of training 8 and assistance. They may provide or make available for facility busi- 9 nesses, services such as food production or processing technical assist- 10 ance, marketing, distribution, purchasing, storage, packing, insurance, 11 on-site retailing or other services. 12 2. Project plans. Applicants for grants must provide a management 13 plan and a business plan for operating the kitchen incubator/shared-use 14 kitchen facility which demonstrates to the satisfaction of the corpo- 15 ration: (i) local business interest in a new or expanded facility, 16 including the food processing needs of existing and potential food busi- 17 nesses; (ii) the applicant's ability to deliver services and assistance 18 as described in subdivision one of this section, including a description 19 of how such assistance and services will be delivered; (iii) whether the 20 services provided to facility tenants will be covered by fees or 21 included in the rent, and how rentals and/or fees will be structured; 22 (iv) a policy for tenants' entrance to and exit, or graduation, from the 23 facility; and, (v) that the facility can be self-sustaining and will not 24 require long-term state operating subsidies. 25 3. Grant criteria. Grants and loans made by the corporation pursuant 26 to this section shall be subject to the following limitations: 27 a. no such grant shall exceed two hundred fifty thousand dollars per 28 year; and 29 b. preference shall be given to applicants which: (i) meet highly 30 distressed area criteria; provide a local match; meet a substantial 31 local or regional need; complement local programs or provide services 32 not readily available from units of local government or the private 33 sector; plan to provide or make available for facility businesses, 34 services, including but not limited to, food production or processing 35 technical assistance, marketing, distribution, purchasing, storage, 36 packaging, insurance, on-site retailing or other services; and (ii) have 37 developed a plan to assist businesses participating in the applicant's 38 kitchen incubator/shared-use kitchen facility with purchasing New York 39 state agricultural products, and promoting the facility to regional 40 farmers. 41 § 2. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 16-m of section 1 of 42 chapter 174 of the laws of 1968, constituting the New York state urban 43 development corporation act, as added by section 1 of part N of chapter 44 84 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read as follows: 45 (b) Loans, loan guarantees, and grants including interest subsidy 46 grants may be provided to municipalities, industrial development agen- 47 cies, not-for-profit corporations or local development corporations for 48 the purpose of developing federal facility sites, urban industrial 49 sites, industrial parks and incubator buildings including small business 50 kitchen incubator/shared-use kitchen facilities; or to undertake prelim- 51 inary planning relating thereto; 52 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately, provided, however, that 53 the amendments to section 16-m of the urban development corporation act 54 made by section two of this act shall not affect the expiration of such 55 section and shall expire and be deemed repealed therewith.
