Don’t Miss the October 1 Deadline for New Construction Projects

NYSED’s Office of Facilities Planning uses the SA-139 form for districts to notify the State of an upcoming school construction project. The SA-139 Request for Project Data form must be done for each project when a general construction contract has been signed. The SA-139 is critical in that it is necessary for Building Aid to begin. When it is submitted determines when Building Aid will begin.

Complete and accurate SA-139 forms must be received at SED by Tuesday, October 1, 2019 in order to guarantee that the project will be included in the November 2019 frozen data file. SA-139 forms received after that date may be included in the November 2019 frozen data file, but are not guaranteed to be included. (The "SA-139 receive date" is the date the SA-139 submission is considered complete and accurate and able to be entered in NYSED’s State Aid system.)

Based on laws enacted in 2007, prospective projects eligible for initial Building Aid payments in the current year will have their initial year of payment deferred to July of the following aid year if a complete and accurate SA-139 was not received at SED in time to be included in the frozen data file created in November of the prior year. This may impact your Building Aid as follows: projects for which SA-139 forms are not received at SED in time to be included in the November 2019 frozen data file will not generate any 2020-21 Building aid, even if all other requirements have been met.