Arkansas § 14-166-205 - Conditions of payments.

§ 14-166-205. Conditions of payments.

Whenever the General Assembly shall have appropriated funds to be used for making payments as authorized in this subchapter, the Department of Finance and Administration shall notify the respective boards of directors of the planning and development districts of the amount allocated to the district as provided in § 14-166-204 and shall notify the district that application for the funds may be made upon forms provided by the department. Upon receipt of application for such allocated funds from a district, the department shall determine that the following conditions have been met before making payments: The organization applying for payment is officially recognized as a designated district in accordance with § 14-166-202 and § 14-166-203; The governing board of directors of the organization shall certify that a proposed budget has been established for the expenditures of state and local funds for purposes consistent with the purposes of this subchapter; The organization has obtained nonfederal matching funds committed from local governments or private sources at least equal to the amount of the payment of state funds, and the president or treasurer of the board of directors of the organization shall certify, from time to time, that such matching funds from local or private sources are on deposit to the organization's own account before quarterly payments of state funds may be made to the district; At the end of each fiscal year, an audited report of expenditures of the district shall be submitted to the department, and any state funds unexpended or unobligated by June 30 shall be returned by the district to the State Treasury. In addition, if the district shall have used any state funds for any purpose not within the purposes of this subchapter, the amount thereof shall be reimbursed to the State of Arkansas before any additional payments may be made to the district. Upon receipt of the application for funds from a district, the department shall review it, and if the department shall determine that the district is qualified to receive payments under this subchapter, state funds shall be paid to the district on a dollar-for-dollar matching basis of funds provided from local or private nonfederal sources. However, in no event may state matching funds exceed the amount of funds allocated to the district for the fiscal year from funds appropriated for it. It is the specific intention of the General Assembly that all or part of the state and local funds may be used to qualify for matching federal funds to be used for the purposes provided in this subchapter. In the event a district shall not qualify for the total amount of state funds allocated to the district during any fiscal year because of failure to provide the required matching funds from nonfederal local or private sources, the amount thereof for which the district does not qualify shall remain in the State Treasury and shall not be apportioned for payment to other districts, it being the intention of this section that each district shall receive no payment in excess of the pro rata share of state funds allocated to the district.