§ 618. Performance and accountability. The commissioner shall
establish, in consultation with the municipalities, uniform statewide
performance standards for the services funded pursuant to this article;
provided, however, the commissioner may modify a specific standard for a
municipality if such municipality demonstrates adequate justification.
The commissioner shall recognize the particular needs and capabilities
of the various municipalities. The commissioner shall monitor the
performance and expenditures of each municipality to ensure that each
one satisfies the performance standards. Any municipality failing to
satisfy its standards may be subject to a reduction or loss of aid until
such municipality can demonstrate that it has the capacity to satisfy
such standards. The commissioner shall establish a uniform accounting
system for monitoring the expenditures for services of each municipality
to which aid is granted and the amount of state aid received including
any performance payments pursuant to section six hundred nineteen-a of
this article. Such reporting system shall require information on the
amount of public health moneys received from the federal government, the
private sector, grants, and fees. Each such municipality shall comply
with the regulations of such accounting and reporting systems.