SB 1093

This bill creates two grant programs under which local governmental units may

obtain financing for costs related to planning and operating certain shared service

agreements. Under the shared services planning and operation grant program, the

Department of Administration provides grants to applicant political subdivisions to

finance the costs of planning and operating shared service agreements. These

agreements must involve at least two political subdivisions jointly providing a

service. Under the shared mass transit service grant program, the Department of

Transportation provides grants to local public bodies to finance the costs of planning

and operating shared mass transit agreements. These agreements must involve at

least two local public bodies and must expand mass transit service within or between

the political subdivisions in which the local public bodies are located. Local public

bodies under the bill include political subdivisions, agencies of political subdivisions,

and other public bodies that provide mass transit services.

The bill also creates a grant program under which DOA may award grants to

political subdivisions to do the following:

1. Fund a political subdivision's planning and operational costs in establishing

a regional affordable housing development plan and fund a political subdivision's

costs related to the construction of one or more regional affordable housing

developments.

2. Fund a political subdivision's costs related to the redevelopment of one or

more large retail stores, or one or more shopping centers or malls, that are empty.

A political subdivision receiving such a grant must match the amount of the grant

from nonstate funding sources.