222 - Monitoring and report.

§  222.  Monitoring  and  report.  1.  The  commissioner  of  economic  development shall monitor the activities of  participating  lenders  and  businesses  and  may  require  periodic reports or other information the  commissioner of economic development deems necessary from  participating  lenders  and  businesses  on  the  status  of  the  linked loans and the  projects to ensure compliance with the provisions and the intent of this  article.    2. On or before February  first,  nineteen  hundred  ninety-five,  and  annually  thereafter  the  commissioner  of  economic  development shall  submit to the governor, the temporary president of the  senate  and  the  speaker  of  the  assembly  a  report  regarding  the  activities of the  program. Such report shall contain  a  statement  of  the  cost  of  the  program  to  the  state  and  to the public authorities, considered as a  whole, because of reduced rates on funds invested  in  linked  deposits.  Such  report shall also include, but shall not be limited to, the number  and type of linked loans under the program and the amount  thereof;  the  number  and  types of lenders making linked loans and of firms receiving  linked loans; the geographic distribution of such lenders and firms; the  approximate number of jobs created  or  retained  as  a  result  of  the  program; actions taken by the department of economic development and the  banking  department  to secure the increased participation of lenders in  economic development regions in which fewer than ten linked  loans  have  been  made  on  or  before  April  first,  nineteen hundred ninety-five;  actions taken by the department of economic development  to  secure  the  increased   participation  of  public  authorities  and  public  benefit  corporations pursuant to section ninety-two-v of this chapter;  as  well  as  any information the commissioner determines useful in evaluating the  economic benefits of the program.