1999 Minnesota Statutes

  268.917 Repealed, 1998 c 273 s 15 

*   NOTE:  This section was also amended by Laws 1998, chapter 
*404, section 49, to read as follows: 

*   "268.917   Early childhood learning and child protection 
*facilities.  

*   The commissioner may make grants to state agencies and 
*political subdivisions to construct or rehabilitate facilities 
*for Head Start, early childhood and family education programs, 
*other early childhood intervention programs, or demonstration 
*family service centers housing multiagency collaboratives, with 
*priority to centers in counties or municipalities with the 
*highest percentage of children living in poverty.  The 
*commissioner may also make grants to state agencies and 
*political subdivisions to construct or rehabilitate facilities 
*for crisis nurseries or child visitation centers.  The 
*facilities must be owned by the state or a political 
*subdivision, but may be leased under section 16A.695 to 
*organizations that operate the programs.  The commissioner shall 
*prescribe the terms and conditions of the leases.  A grant for 
*an individual facility must not exceed $200,000 for each program 
*that is housed in the facility, up to a maximum of $500,000 for 
*a facility that houses three programs or more.  The commissioner 
*shall give priority to grants that involve collaboration among 
*sponsors of programs under this section and may give priority to 
*projects that collaborate with child care providers, including 
*all-day and school-age child care programs, special needs care, 
*sick child care, and nontraditional hour care.  The commissioner 
*may give priority to grants for programs that will increase 
*their child care workers' wages as a result of the grant.  At 
*least 25 percent of the amounts appropriated for these grants up 
*to $50,000 must utilize youthbuild under sections 268.361 to 
*268.366 or other youth employment and training programs for the 
*labor portion of the construction.  Eligible programs must 
*consult with appropriate labor organizations to deliver 
*education and training.  State appropriations must be matched on 
*a 50 percent basis with nonstate funds.  The matching 
*requirement must apply programwide and not to individual grants."