2001 Minnesota Statutes

     145.885 Application for a grant. 

    Subdivision 1.    Requirements for all applications.  An 
 application for a grant shall be submitted to the commissioner 
 at a time and in a form and manner as the commissioner 
 prescribes.  Department of health technical staff shall be 
 available to provide technical assistance in development of 
 grant applications.  The application must contain: 

    (1) a complete description of the program and the manner in 
 which the applicant intends to conduct the program; 

    (2) a description of the manner in which the program 
 responds to needs and priorities for services identified by the 
 maternal and child health task force under section 145.881, 
 subdivision 2, and rules adopted by the commissioner; 
 differences must be explained in detail; 

    (3) a budget and justification for the amount of grant 
 funds requested; 

    (4) a description of the target population served by the 
 qualified program and estimates of the number of low income or 
 high risk patients the program is expected to serve; 

    (5) the name or names of the person or persons who shall 
 have primary responsibility for the administration and delivery 
 of services of the qualified program; and 

    (6) the reporting and accounting procedures to be followed 
 by the qualified agency to enable the commissioner to evaluate 
 the activities of the qualified program. 

    Subd. 2.    Additional requirements for community boards 
 of health.  Applications by community health boards as defined 
 in section 145A.02, subdivision 5, under section 145.882, 
 subdivision 3, must also contain a summary of the process used 
 to develop the local program, including evidence that the 
 community health board notified local public and private 
 providers of the availability of funding through the community 
 health board for maternal and child health services; a list of 
 all public and private agency requests for grants submitted to 
 the community health board indicating which requests were 
 included in the grant application; and an explanation of how 
 priorities were established for selecting the requests to be 
 included in the grant application.  The community health board 
 shall include, with the grant application, a written statement 
 of the criteria to be applied to public and private agency 
 requests for funding. 

    HIST: 1983 c 312 art 4 s 5; 1Sp1985 c 14 art 19 s 22; 1987 c 
 309 s 24