(a) After the Initial Allocations are made, the Executive Director shall ensure that a minimum of eight million dollars ($8,000,000) has been initially allocated for Projects in each of four (4) regions, including the Central Coast, Los Angeles/Ventura, Northern/Central and Southern California. If any region receives less than eight million dollars ($8,000,000) in total Grant funds, the Initial Allocation to the regions with excessive funds shall be reduced in an amount sufficient to mitigate the deficiency in any region receiving insufficient funds. To accomplish this purpose, funds shall be re-allocated from the lowest scored Applicants in the region with excessive funds to the highest scored Applicants that did not receive Grant funds under the Initial Allocation in the region with insufficient funds.

(b) The distribution of the Total Grant Funds in excess of $32 million allocated to particular regions shall be based solely on points scored by each Applicant, regardless of the Applicant's geographic locations.

(c) In the event that an Applicant appeals to the Authority and the Authority approves the appeal, the funding for the approved appeal will come from excess funding described in subdivision (b) of this Section. To accomplish this purpose, funds shall be re-allocated from the lowest scored Applicants that were identified as eligible for the excess funding.