(a) The board shall review grant applications that have been recommended by the department under Alaska Stat. § 14.11.013, and may approve a grant application if the board determines that the project meets the criteria specified in Alaska Stat. § 14.11.013(a)(1) and 14.11.014. The department may not award a grant unless the grant application is approved by the board.
Terms Used In Alaska Statutes 14.11.015
Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
(b) To the extent that money is available in the appropriate fund, the department shall award grants approved under (a) of this section in the order of the projects’ priority on the date the appropriation bill funding the appropriate grant fund is passed by the legislature, regardless of any appeal pending under Alaska Stat. § 14.11.016. Appeals pending under Alaska Stat. § 14.11.016 at the time that grants are awarded may not delay the funding of grants awarded under this section.(c) If a project is assigned a new priority ranking under Alaska Stat. § 14.11.016 after the date of passage by the legislature of the appropriation bill for the appropriate grant fund, the project must be funded from the appropriate fund in accordance with the new priority ranking at the next time that grants are awarded.
