1999 Minnesota Statutes

     116L.12 Funding mechanism. 

    Subdivision 1.    Applications.  A qualifying consortium 
 shall apply to the board in the manner specified by the board. 

    Subd. 2.    Fiscal requirements.  The application must 
 specify how the consortium will make maximum use of available 
 federal and state training, education, and employment funds to 
 minimize the need for training and retention grants.  A 
 consortium must designate a lead agency as the fiscal agent for 
 reporting, claiming, and receiving payments.  An institution of 
 higher learning may be designated as a lead agency, but the 
 governing board of a multicampus higher education system may not 
 be given that designation. 

    Subd. 3.    Program targets.  Applications for grants 
 must describe targeted employers or types of employers and must 
 describe the specific critical work force shortage the program 
 is designed to alleviate.  Programs may be limited 
 geographically or be statewide.  The application must include 
 verification that in the process of determining that a critical 
 work force shortage exists in the target area, the applicant has:

    (1) consulted available data on worker shortages; 

    (2) conferred with other employers in the target area; and 

    (3) compared shortages in the target area with shortages at 
 the regional or statewide level. 

    Subd. 4.    Grants.  Within the limits of available 
 appropriations, the board shall make grants to qualifying 
 consortia to operate local, regional, or statewide training and 
 retention programs.  Grant awards must establish specific, 
 measurable outcomes and timelines for achieving those outcomes. 

    Subd. 5.    Local match requirements.  A consortium must 
 provide at least a 50 percent match from local resources for 
 money appropriated under this section.  The local match 
 requirement must be satisfied on an overall program basis but 
 need not be satisfied for each particular client.  The local 
 match requirement may be reduced for consortia that include a 
 relatively large number of small employers whose financial 
 contribution has been reduced in accordance with section 116L.15.
 In-kind services and expenditures under section 116L.13, 
 subdivision 2, may be used to meet this local match 
 requirement.  The grant application must specify the financial 
 contribution from each member of the consortium. 

    Subd. 6.    Ineligible worker categories.  Grants shall 
 not be made to alleviate shortages of physicians, physician 
 assistants, or advanced practice nurses. 

    Subd. 7.    Evaluation.  The board shall evaluate the 
 success of consortia that receive grants in achieving expected 
 outcomes and shall report to the legislature annually.  The 
 report must compare consortia in terms of overall program costs, 
 costs per client, retention rates, advancement rates, and other 
 outcome measurements established in the grantmaking process.  
 The first report shall be due on March 15, 2000, and on January 
 15 annually in succeeding years.  The report shall include any 
 recommendations from the board to modify the grant program. 

    HIST: 1999 c 245 art 10 s 5