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STATEMENT OF ASSURANCES
STANDARD STATEMENT OF ASSURANCES GRANT PROGRAMS
The Statement of Assurances Signature Page included in this grant must provide the authorized
signatures of the applicant agency (e.g., mayor and superintendent of schools). Please note that the
authorized signatures of the eligible applicant must also be provided on the cover page of the grant
application submitted with the grant (see application instructions).
Applicants need only submit the Statement of Assurances Signature Page with submission of
their grant application.
PROJECT TITLE: FY 23 SCHOOL READINESS and QUALITY ENHANCEMENT GRANT
PROGRAM
THE APPLICANT: Town of Colchester and HEREBY ASSURES THAT:
Colchester Public Schools
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 Connecticut
Office of Early Childhood and the Connecticut State Department of Education;
E. Grant funds shall not be used to supplant funds normally budgeted by the agency;
F. 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 for the Office of Early
Childhood, including information relating to the project records and access thereto as the
Connecticut Office of Early Childhood and Connecticut State Department of Education may find
necessary;
H. The Connecticut Office of Early Childhood 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 Office of Early Childhood and the State Department
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;
K. 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
monies not expended in accordance with the approved program/operation budget as determined
by the audit;
L. 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:
1) “Commission” means the Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities;
2) “Contract” and “contract” include any extension or modification of the Contract or contract;
3) “Contractor” and “contractor” include any successors or assigns of the Contractor or
contractor;
4) “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;
5) “good faith” means that degree of diligence which a reasonable person would exercise in
the performance of legal duties and obligations;
6) “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;
7) “marital status” means being single, married as recognized by the state of Connecticut,
widowed, separated or divorced;
8) “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 having one or more such
disorders;
9) “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 Connecticut General Statutes §32-9n;
and
10) “public works contract” means any agreement between any individual, form or corporation
and the State of 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.
For purposes of this Section, the terms “Contract” and “contract” do not include a contract
where each contractor is (1) a political subdivision of the state, including, but not limited to, a
municipality, (2) a quasi-public agency, as defined in Connecticut General Statutes § 1-120, (3)
any other state, including but not limited to any federally recognized Indian tribal governments,
as defined in Connecticut General Statutes § 1-267, (4) the federal government, (5) a foreign
government, or (6) an agency of a subdivision, agency, state or government described in the
immediately preceding enumerated items (1), (2), (3), (4) or (5).
b) (1) The Contractor agrees and warrants that in for 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, 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, 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
Connecticut General Statutes §46a-68e and §46a-68f and with each regulation or relevant order
issued by said Commission pursuant to Connecticut General Statutes §46a-56, 46a-68e and 46a-
68f.; 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 Connecticut General Statutes §46a-
56. If the contract is a public works contract, the Contractor agrees and warrants that he will
make good faith efforts to employ minority business enterprises as subcontractors and suppliers
of materials on such public works projects.
c) 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.
d) The Contractor shall develop and maintain adequate documentation, in a manner prescribed by
the Commission, of its good faith efforts.
e) 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
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
Connecticut General Statutes §46a-56; 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, 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.
f) 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 during the
term of this Contract and any amendments thereto.
g) (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 Connecticut General
Statutes §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 the Section and Connecticut General Statutes
§46a-56.
h) 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 Connecticut
General Statutes §46a-56; 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,
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 Office of Early Childhood and availability
of state or federal funds.
N. 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.
O. The Connecticut Office of Early Childhood reserves the right to negotiate terms, including the
withholding of funds, based on the grantee’s inability to comply with the assurances.
P. The Connecticut Office of Early Childhood reserves the right to de-fund sub-grantees of the School
Readiness Council based on the sub-grantee’s inability to comply with School Readiness General
Policies.