12019.45. (a) The adviser and panel, with administrative support from the commission and in consultation with federally recognized tribes in California, shall develop a concise application form for one or more eligible tribes to apply for a grant.
(b) The application developed pursuant to subdivision (a) shall include, but not be limited to, all of the following:
(1) An identification of every eligible tribe applying for the grant and the name, signature, and contact information of every individual who is authorized by each eligible tribe’s governing body to apply for the grant.
(2) A description of the purpose or project for which the grant is intended to be used.
(3) An assessment of the nature and extent of the potential benefits from the described purpose or project to each applying eligible tribe.
(4) The safeguards in place to ensure that the grant would be applied only to the described purpose or project.
(5) The amount and source of other moneys or in-kind services or goods, if any, that are available to be additionally applied to the described purpose or project and when those moneys or in-kind services or goods are intended to be applied.
(6) A list of every grant awarded or other distribution from the fund previously awarded or distributed to each eligible tribe applying for the grant and the results achieved as a result of those prior awards or distributions.
(7) A strategy for how the benefits from the described purpose or project will be sustainably maintained.
(8) A signed acceptance of the terms described in Section 12019.75 from an authorized representative of every eligible tribe applying in the application.
(9) Identification of the information provided in the application that each eligible tribe proposes is confidential and not subject to public disclosure pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 12019.55, and a statement, in bold, that the panel may consider, but is not required to comply with, an eligible tribe’s identification of information as confidential when responding to a request for public records pursuant to the California Public Records Act (Division 10 (commencing with Section 7920.000) of Title 1).
(10) Any other information the adviser and panel deem valuable to evaluating the merits of awarding a grant.
(Amended by Stats. 2021, Ch. 615, Sec. 167. (AB 474) Effective January 1, 2022. Operative January 1, 2023, pursuant to Sec. 463 of Stats. 2021, Ch. 615.)