§ 1680-g. Child care facilities development program; authority\nfinancing of eligible child care facilities development projects. 1. The\ndormitory authority is hereby authorized to finance eligible child care\nfacilities development projects which are intended to serve the needs of\nlow-income working families or an area with demonstrated child care need\nor to provide care for children through the age of twelve years and\nenrolled in school following the completion of the school day or the\nschool year. Such projects shall be used as licensed or registered\nforms of child care for a period of at least ten years with an average\nof twenty-five percent of its available child care slots set aside for\nfamilies eligible for low-income child care subsidies or for referrals\nof low-income or public assistance families from local social services\ndistricts. Such project shall have a useful life of at least ten years.\n 2. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to\nthe contrary, and subject to the making of annual appropriations\ntherefor by the legislature, in order to assist the dormitory authority\nin providing for the financing of eligible child care facilities\ndevelopment projects, the director of the budget is authorized in any\nstate fiscal year commencing April first, nineteen hundred ninety-nine\nor any state fiscal year thereafter to enter into one or more service\ncontracts, none of which shall exceed thirty years in duration, with the\ndormitory authority, upon such terms as the director of the budget and\nthe dormitory authority agree.\n (b) Any service contract entered into pursuant to paragraph (a) of\nthis subdivision or any payments made or to be made thereunder may be\nassigned and pledged by the dormitory authority as security for its\nbonds, notes, or other obligations.\n (c) Any such service contracts shall provide that the obligation of\nthe director of the budget or of the state to fund or to pay the amounts\ntherein provided for shall not constitute a debt of the state within the\nmeaning of any constitutional or statutory provision in the event the\ndormitory authority assigns or pledges the service contract payments as\nsecurity for its bonds, notes, or other obligations and shall be deemed\nexecutory only to the extent monies are available and that no liability\nshall be incurred by the state beyond the monies available for the\npurpose, and that such obligation is subject to annual appropriations by\nthe legislature.\n (d) Any service contract or contracts entered into pursuant to this\nsubdivision shall provide for state commitments to provide annually to\nthe dormitory authority a sum or sums, upon such terms and conditions as\nshall be deemed appropriate by the director of the budget, to fund the\nprincipal, interest, or other related payments required for any bonds,\nnotes, or other obligations of the dormitory authority issued pursuant\nto this section.\n 3. The dormitory authority in conjunction with the office of children\nand family services shall develop a request for applications soliciting\npotential applicants seeking assistance for the development of licensed\nchild care center projects. The office of children and family services\nshall receive, initially review, and assess applications to determine\nwhich projects should be referred to the authority and to rank by groups\nthe referred projects according to the capacity of such projects to meet\nidentified needs for child care. In assessing such applications, the\noffice of children and family services shall consider:\n (a) the needs for child care services in the area;\n (b) the potential viability for a child care center to succeed in the\narea;\n (c) the qualifications of the proposed provider to operate the\nproposed child care center;\n (d) the potential for meeting applicable regulatory requirements;\n (e) the appropriateness of the site for licensing as a child care\ncenter; and\n (f) such other m
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