02 NCAC 57 .0306. REVIEW OF PROPOSALS

(a)  The Executive Director of the Commission or Commission staff or designee shall screen applications to see if they are complete.  Commission staff shall notify applicants if the grant application is incomplete.

(b)  Applications that are complete will be forwarded to a Grant Review Committee of the Commission.  Grant Review Committee members shall be Commissioners.

(c)  During the review and evaluation of grant proposals, the Grant Review Committee may solicit information from persons who have expertise in technical or specialized areas or request that the Commission staff or designee make reports on any site visits that may be required for consideration of the grant proposal.  The Grant Review Committee will make recommendations to the Commission based on its review and evaluation.  Scoring and ranking of proposals may be determined by using any consistent rating methodology, including adjectival, numerical or ordinal rankings.

(d)  The Commission will evaluate grant proposals and recommendations made to it by the Grant Review Committee as set out in G.S. 143-721.

(e)  In making this evaluation the Commission may consider who will benefit from the grant, how many will benefit from the grant, how the grant project will alleviate or avoid unemployment, stabilize local tax bases, encourage the economic stability of participants in the State's agricultural economy or encourage the optimal use of natural resources in the tobacco-related segment of the State's agricultural economy.  Proposals will be given a preference for statewide impact, for containing a delivery mechanism to intended beneficiaries, for providing alternate markets for tobacco or for providing for diversification of the tobacco crop or the tobacco grower.

(f)  No grant shall be awarded that is unlawful.

 

History Note:        Authority G.S. 143-718; 143-721;

Temporary Adoption Eff. May 15, 2002;

Eff. April 15, 2003;

Amended Eff. December 1, 2008.