Funding for Establishment, Maintenance, Modernization, Acquisition, or Construction of Multipurpose Senior Centers

PURPOSE: This rule sets forth the procedures and guidance mandated in 42 U.S.C. 3030b and Administration on Aging PI-91-04 for financing the establishment, maintenance, modernization, acquisition, or construction of multipurpose senior centers with funding received from the division. (1) The requirements of this rule apply to the use of division funding for establishment, maintenance, modernization, acquisition, or construction of multipurpose senior centers. The requirements apply whether division funding is used to finance the cost in whole or in part. (2) Area agencies on aging may utilize supportive services funding received from the division to finance the acquisition, establishment, maintenance, modernization, or construction of multipurpose senior centers only where an area plan or area plan update has been approved by the division, where funding has been explicitly identified and designated in the plan or plan update for the named center, and where— (A) The center is operated under an approved direct service waiver where title to the structure is held by the area agency on aging; or (B) A grant is made to a public or nonprofit private organization where title to the structure is held by the public or nonprofit organization. (3) Area agencies on aging must notify the division in writing within thirty (30) days of any decision to acquire, establish, maintain, modernize, or construct a multipurpose senior center. The notification must include: (A) Date the decision was approved by the agency’s board of directors; (B) Amount approved by the board for the project; (C) Percentage of total cost which will be paid from funding under the agency’s grant/contract with the division; (D) Nature of the project funded (acquisition, establishment, maintenance, modernization, or construction); (E) Name and address of grantee, where applicable; (F) Name and address of the center; and (G) A plan to use the skills and services of older adults in paid and unpaid work, including multigenerational and older adult to work. (4) Total cost, for the purposes of this rule, includes all costs incurred by the title holder whether financed with division funding, other area agency on aging funding, or funding from third parties. Total cost does not include the value of any third-party in-kind contributions. (5) Funding under the area agency on aging’s grant/contract with the division, for the purposes of this rule, includes funding received from the division and funding counted toward satisfying any matching requirement for receipt of division funding. (6) Area agencies on aging must file the following notice of record with the appropriate unit of local government when acquiring or constructing an agency-owned center: “This is to serve as notice to all potential sellers, purchasers, transferors, and recipients of a transfer of the real property described below as to the federal government’s reversionary interests as set forth in section 312 of the Older Americans Act of 1965, as amended, 42 U.S.C. 3030b, which have arisen as a result of (grantee’s name) receipt and use of Department of Health and Human Services’ grant funds in connection with the purchase or construction of said property. The property to which this notice is applicable is (address) and identified as parcel (insert appropriate number(s)) in the books and records of (insert appropriate name of local unit of government’s recording agency). Said real property is also described as: (insert description provided in survey). Further information as to the federal government’s interest referred to above can be obtained from: (name and address of area agency on aging).” (7) Area agencies on aging must include a requirement in all grant awards for acquisition, establishment, maintenance, modernization, or construction of a multipurpose senior center that the grantee file the notice of record detailed in section (6) and deliver a copy of the filed notice to the agency. (8) Within thirty (30) days of the filing date, area agencies on aging must deliver a copy of all filed notice of records to the division. (9) Area agencies on aging must notify the division in writing within thirty (30) days when— (A) The area agency on aging’s board of directors approves additional funding for acquisition, establishment, maintenance, modernization, or construction of a multipurpose senior center project; (B) The area agency on aging’s board of directors approves funding for acquisition, establishment, maintenance, modernization, or construction of a multipurpose senior center with division funding; (C) The title holder, original grantee or center has a change of name or address; (D) The site ceases to be used as a multipurpose senior center; or (E) The title holder ceases to be a public or nonprofit private organization. Disability Services (10) Area agencies on aging must maintain a perpetual inventory listing of all multipurpose senior centers acquired, established, maintained, modernized, or constructed financed with division funding. (11) The inventory listing must include all centers whether owned by the area agency on aging or by a public or nonprofit private organization. (12) The inventory listing must include the following information: (A) Date the project was approved by the area agency on aging’s board of directors; (B) Amount approved by the area agency on aging’s board of directors for the project; (C) Percentage of total cost which will be paid from funding under the area agency on aging’s grant/contract with the division; (D) Nature of the project funded (acquisition, establishment, maintenance, modernization, or construction of multipurpose senior centers); (E) Name and address of current title holder; (F) Name and address of original grantee, where applicable; (G) Name and address of the center; (H) Date the site ceased operation as a senior center, when applicable; and (I) Date the title holder ceased to be a public or nonprofit private organization, when applicable. (13) Area agencies on aging must update the inventory when any of the following occur: (A) The area agency on aging’s board of directors approves new or additional funding for a public or nonprofit private organization to acquire, establish, maintain, modernize, or construct a multipurpose senior center; (B) The area agency on aging’s board of directors approves new or additional funding to acquire, establish, maintain, modernize, or construct a multipurpose senior center; (C) The title holder, original grantee or center has a change of name or address; (D) The site ceases to be used as a multipurpose senior center; or (E) The title holder ceases to be a public or nonprofit private organization. (14) The area agency on aging must maintain an annual inventory listing and provide a copy to the division upon request. (15) The division shall be entitled to recover funds from an area agency on aging when a multipurpose senior center within ten (10) years after acquisition, establishment, maintenance, modernization, or construction or within twenty (20) years after completion of construction ceases to be— (A) Owned by a public or nonprofit private organization; or (B) Used for the purpose for which it was acquired, established, maintained, modernized, or constructed. (16) The amount recoverable by the division shall be a percentage of current market value. The percentage shall be equivalent to the percentage of funds contributed under the area agency on aging’s grant/contract with the division to the total original cost of the acquisition, establishment, maintenance, modernization, or construction of multipurpose senior centers. (17) Area agencies on aging are encouraged to enter into legally binding agreements with the grantees permitting the area agency on aging to recover an equivalent amount of funding. The division shall be entitled to recover the full amount from the area agency on aging regardless of the area agency on aging’s ability to recover funding from a grantee. (18) An area agency on aging may petition for waiver of recovery by submitting a written request within thirty (30) days of any event outlined in section (15). The request must detail the reason(s) the area agency on aging believes good cause exists for releasing the agency from the obligation. (19) The division may approve or disapprove any waiver requested. (20) Area agencies on aging must maintain the following on file: (A) Records documenting total costs incurred by the title holder; (B) Records documenting the amount of total costs paid with funding under the area agency on aging’s grant/contract with the division; (C) A copy of the filed notice of record; (D) Documents supporting market value determination at the time of any event listed in section (15); and (E) Records documenting the receipt of amounts recovered from public or nonprofit private organizations pursuant to any event listed in section (15). (21) Area agencies on aging must maintain all material listed in section (20) applicable to a center for three (3) years after the division obtains an independent audit in conformance with federal Office of Management and Budget requirements covering the period in which— (A) The structure ceases to be owned by a public or nonprofit private organization; (B) The structure ceases to be used as a multipurpose senior center; (C) Ten (10) years have elapsed from the time division funding was used to acquire, establish, maintain, or modernize, the multipurpose senior center; or (D) Twenty (20) years have elapsed from the time division funding was used to construct the multipurpose senior center. AUTHORITY: section 192.2000, RSMo 2016.* This rule previously filed as 13 CSR 154.175. Original rule filed Feb. 11, 1992, effective June 25, 1992. Amended: Filed Aug. 28, 2000, effective March 30, 2001. Moved to 19 CSR 15-4.175, effective Aug. 28, 2001. Amended: Filed Jan. 25, 2022, effective Aug. 30, 2022. *Original authority: 192.2000, RSMo 1984, amended 1988, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 2001, 2014.