1. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, with the amounts made available therefor by appropriation, a "Combined Senior Citizen Services Center/Residential Health Care Facility/Child Day Care Center Community Grants Program" is hereby established on a pilot project basis. The purpose of such a program shall be to promote innovative and cost-effective means of providing existing or proposed senior citizen services center or residential health care facilities and child day care centers in a combined center. Such centers shall provide and combine, to the extent possible and financially feasible, services that include, but are not limited to, staffing and administration, transportation, nutrition and health, and the costs of utilities, heat, insurance and rent or mortgages.
2. 2. Grants may be awarded for combining separately existing programs or for combining newly proposed programs. Such grants necessary to combine programs shall be limited to start-up costs that may include planning and administrative costs for the purpose of combining such programs, moving expenses and minor capital improvements and up to the first two months' expenses for salaries or wages, training, rent or mortgage payments, utilities and insurance or such other start-up costs identified and approved by the director of the department of social services.

(L. 1990 H.B. 1370, et al. § 11)