Perkins Grant Statement of Assurances2

STATEMENT OF ASSURANCES

 

CONNECTICUT STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
STANDARD STATEMENT OF ASSURANCES

 

 

GRANT PROGRAMS
PROJECT TITLE: Advanced Manufacturing for Manufacturing & Engineering
THE APPLICANT: Bacon Academy HEREBY ASSURES THAT:

Colchester Public Schools
(insert Agency/School/CBO Name)

 

A. The applicant has the necessary legal authority to apply for and receive the proposed grant;

B. The filing of this application has been authorized by the applicant's governing body, and the
undersigned official has been duly authorized to file this application for and on behalf of said
applicant, and otherwise to act as the authorized representative of the applicant in connection with
this application;

C. The activities and services for which assistance is sought under this grant will be administered by or
under the supervision and control of the applicant;

D. The project will be operated in compliance with all applicable state and federal laws and in
compliance with regulations and other policies and administrative directives of the State Board of
Education and the Connecticut State Department of Education;

E. Grant funds shall not be used to supplant funds normally budgeted by the agency;

FR, Fiscal control and accounting procedures will be used to ensure proper disbursement of all funds
awarded;

G. The applicant will submit a final project report (within 60 days of the project completion) and such
other reports, as specified, to the Connecticut State Department of Education, including information
relating to the project records and access thereto as the Connecticut State Department of Education
may find necessary;

H. The Connecticut State Department of Education reserves the exclusive right to use and grant the right

to use and/or publish any part or parts of any summary, abstract, , reports, publications, records and
materials resulting from this project and this grant; ~~

I. If the project achieves the specified objectives, every reasonable effort will be made to continue the
project and/or implement the results after the termination of state/federal funding;

J. The applicant will protect and save harmless the State Board of Education from financial loss and

expense, including legal fees and costs, if any, arising out of any breach of the duties, in whole or
part, described in the application for the grant;

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. At the conclusion of each grant period, the applicant will provide for an independent audit report

acceptable to the grantor in accordance with Sections 7-394a and 7-396a of the Connecticut General
Statutes, and the applicant shall return to the Connecticut State Department of Education any moneys
not expended in accordance with the approved program/operation budget as determined by the audit;

REQUIRED LANGUAGE (NON-DISCRIMINATION)

References in this section to “contract” shall mean this grant agreement and to “contractor” shall
mean the Grantee.

(a) For purposes of this Section, the following terms are defined as follows:

i. “Commission” means the Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities;

i. “Contract” and “contract” include any extension or modification of the Contract or
contract;

iii. “Contractor” and “contractor” include any successors or assigns of the Contractor or,
contractor; , .

iv. “Gender identity or expression” means a person’s gender-related identity, appearance or
behavior, whether or not that gender-related identity, appearance or behavior is different
from that traditionally associated with the person’s physiology or assigned sex at birth,
which gender-related identity can be shown by providing evidence including, but not
limited to, medical history, care or treatment of the gender-related identity, consistent and
uniform assertion of the gender-related identity or any other evidence that the gender-
related identity is sincerely held, part of a person’s core identity or not being asserted for
an improper purpose.

v. “good faith” means that degree of diligence which a reasonable person would exercise in
the performance of legal duties and obligations;

vi. “good faith efforts” shall include, but not be limited to, those reasonable initial efforts
necessary to comply with statutory or regulatory requirements and additional or
substituted efforts when it is determined that such initial efforts will not be sufficient to
comply with such requirements;

vii. “marital status” means being single, married as recognized by the State of Connecticut,
widowed, separated or divorced; .

viii. “mental disability” means one or more mental disorders, as defined in the most recent
edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of
Mental Disorders”, or a record of or regarding a person as havin g one or more such
disorders; ' :

ix. “minority business enterprise” means any small contractor or supplier of materials fifty-one
percent or more of the capital stock, if any, or assets of which is owned by a person or
persons: (1) who are active in the daily affairs of the enterprise, (2) who have the power to
direct the management and policies of the enterprise, and (3) who are members of a
minority, as such term is defined in subsection (a) of C.G.S. § 32-9n; and

x. “public works contract” means any agreement between any individual, firm or
corporation and the State or any political subdivision of the State other than a municipality
for construction, rehabilitation, conversion, extension, demolition or repair of a public
building, highway or other changes or improvements in real property, or which is financed
in whole or in part by the State, including, but not limited to, matching expenditures,
grants, loans, insurance or guarantees. me

For purposes of this Section, the terms “Contract” and “contract” do not inchide a contract
where each contractor is (1) a political subdivision of the state, including, but not limited to, a
municipality, unless the contract is a municipal public works contract or quasi-public agency
project contract, (2) any other state, including but not limited to any federally recognized
Indian tribal governments, as defined in C.G.S. § 1-267, (3) the federal government, (4) a
foreign government, or (5) an agency of a subdivision, state or government described in the
immediately preceding enumerated items (1), (2), (3),or (4).

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(b)

(c)

(d)

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(1) The Contractor agrees and warrants that in the performance of the Contract such
Contractor will not discriminate or permit discrimination against any person or group of
persons on the grounds of race, color, religious creed, age, marital status, national origin,
ancestry, sex, gender identity or expression, status as a veteran, intellectual disability, mental
disability or physical disability, including, but not limited to, blindness, unless it is shown by
such Contractor that such disability prevents performance of the work involved, in any
manner prohibited by the laws of the United States or of the State of Connecticut; and the
Contractor further agrees to take affirmative action to insure that applicants with job-related
qualifications are employed and that employees are treated when employed without regard to
their race, color, religious creed, age, marital status, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender
identity or expression, status as a veteran, intellectual disability, mental disability or physical
disability, including, but not limited to, blindness, unless it is shown by the Contractor that
such disability prevents performance of the work involved; (2) the Contractor agrees, in all
solicitations or advertisements for employees placed by or on behalf of the Contractor, to
State that it is an “affirmative action-equal opportunity employer” in accordance with
regulations adopted by the Commission; (3) the Contractor agrees to provide each labor union
or representative of workers with which the Contractor has a collective bargaining Agreement
or other contract or understanding and each vendor with which the Contractor has a contract
or understanding, a notice to be provided by the Commission, advising the labor union or
workers’ representative of the Contractor’s commitments under this section and to post
copies of the notice in conspicuous places available to employees and applicants for
employment; (4) the Contractor agrees to comply with each provision of this Section and
C.G.S. §§ 46a-68e and 46a-68f and with each regulation or relevant order issued by said
Commission pursuant to C.G.S. §§ 46a-56, 46a-68e, 46a-68f and 46a-86; and (5) the
Contractor agrees to provide the Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities with such
information requested by the Commission, and permit access to pertinent books, records and
accounts, concerning the employment practices and procedures of the Contractor as relate to
the provisions of this Section and C.G.S. § 46a-56. If the contract is a public works contract,
municipal public works contract or contract for a quasi-public agency project, the Contractor
agrees and warrants that he or she will make good faith efforts to employ minority business

enterprises as subcontractors and suppliers of materials on such public works or quasi-public
agency projects.

Determination of the Contractor’s good faith efforts shall include, but shall not be limited to,
the following factors: The Contractor’s employment and subcontracting policies, patterns
-and practices; affirmative advertising, recruitment and training; technical assistance activities
and such other reasonable activities or efforts as the Commission may prescribe that are
designed to ensure the participation of minority business enterprises in public works projects.

The Contractor shall develop and maintain adequate documentation, in a manner prescribed by
the Commission, of its good faith efforts.

The Contractor shall include the provisions of subsection (b) of this Section in every
subcontract or purchase order entered into in order to fulfill any obligation of a contract with
the State and in every subcontract entered into in order to fulfill any obligation of a municipal
public works contract for a quasi-public agency project, and such provisions shall be binding
on a subcontractor, vendor or manufacturer unless exempted by regulations or orders of the
Commission. The Contractor shall take such action with respect to any such subcontract or
purchase order as the Commission may direct as a means of enforcing such provisions
including sanctions for noncompliance in accordance with C.G.S. § 46a-56, as amended;
provided if such Contractor becomes involved in, or is threatened with, litigation with a
subcontractor or vendor as a result of such direction by the Commission regarding a State
contract, the Contractor may request the State of Connecticut to enter into any such litigation
or negotiation prior thereto to protect the interests of the State and the State may so enter.

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The Contractor agrees to comply with the regulations referred to in this Section as they exist
on the date of this Contract and as they may be adopted or amended from time to time durin gz
the term of this Contract and any amendments thereto,

(1) The Contractor agrees and warrants that in the performance of the Contract such
Contractor will not discriminate or permit discrimination against any person or group of
persons on the grounds of sexual orientation, in any manner prohibited by the laws of the
United States or the State of Connecticut, and that employees are treated when employed
without regard to their sexual orientation; (2) the Contractor. agrees to provide each labor
union or representative of workers with which such Contractor has a collective bargaining
Agreement or other contract or understanding and each vendor with which such Contractor
has a contract or understanding, a notice to be provided by the Commission on Human Rights
and Opportunities advising the labor union or workers’ representative of the Contractor’ s
commitments under this section, and to post copies of the notice in conspicuous places
available to employees and applicants for employment; (3) the Contractor agrees to comply

- with each provision of this section and with each regulation or relevant order issued by said
Commission pursuant to C.G.S. § 46a-56; and (4) the Contractor agrees to provide the
Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities with such information requested by the
Commission, and permit access to pertinent books, records and accounts, concerning the
employment practices and procedures of the Contractor which relate to the provisions of this
Section and C.G.S. § 46a-56. :

The Contractor shall include the provisions of the foregoing paragraph in every subcontract or
purchase order entered into in order to fulfill any obligation of a contract with the State and
such provisions shall be binding on a subcontractor, vendor or manufacturer unless exempted
by regulations or orders of the Commission. The Contractor:shall take such action with
respect to any such subcontract or purchase order as the Commission may direct as a means
of enforcing such provisions including sanctions for noncompliance in accordance with
C.G.S. § 46a-56 as amended; provided, if such Contractor becomes involved in, or is
threatened with, litigation with a subcontractor or vendor as a result of such direction by the
Commission regarding a State contract, the Contractor may request the State of Connecticut
to enter into any such litigation or negotiation prior thereto to protect the interests of the State
and the State may so enter.

M. The grant award is subject to approval of the Connecticut State Department of Education and

N.

availability of state or federal funds.

The applicant agrees and warrants that Sections 4-190 to 4-197, inclusive, of the Connecticut General
Statutes concerning the Personal Data Act and Sections 10-4-8 to 10-4-10, inclusive, of the
Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies promulgated there under are hereby incorporated by
reference.

I, the undersigned authorized official, hereby certify that these assurances shall be fully implemented.

Superintendent Signature: ME2.

Name: (typed)

Title: (typed)

 

Jeff Buy he

Supéfinteadent of Colchester Public Schools

 

2/28/2020

 

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