2003 Minnesota Statutes

     124D.41 Grant applications. 

    Subdivision 1.    Applications required.  An 
 organization seeking federal or state grant money under sections 
 124D.39 to 124D.44 shall prepare and submit to the commission an 
 application that meets the requirements of this section.  The 
 commission must develop, and the applying organizations must 
 comply with, the form and manner of the application. 

    Subd. 2.    Application content.  An applicant on its 
 application must: 

    (1) propose a program to provide participants the 
 opportunity to perform community service to meet specific unmet 
 community needs, and participate in classroom, work-based, and 
 service-learning; 

    (2) assess the community's unmet educational, human, 
 environmental, and public safety needs, the resources and 
 programs available for meeting those needs, and how young people 
 participated in assessing community needs; 

    (3) describe the educational component of the program, 
 including classroom hours per week, classroom time for 
 participants to reflect on the program experience, and 
 anticipated academic outcomes related to the service experience; 

    (4) describe the work to be performed, the ratio of youth 
 participants to crew leaders and mentors, and the expectations 
 and qualifications for crew leaders and mentors; 

    (5) describe local funds or resources available to meet the 
 match requirements of section 124D.44; 

    (6) describe any funds available for the program from 
 sources other than the requested grant; 

    (7) describe any agreements with local businesses to 
 provide participants with work-learning opportunities and 
 mentors; 

    (8) describe any agreement with local postsecondary 
 educational institutions to offer participants course credits 
 for their community service-learning experience; 

    (9) describe any agreement with a local high school or an 
 alternative learning center to provide remedial education, 
 credit for community service work and work-based learning, or 
 graduate equivalency degrees; 

    (10) describe any pay for service or other program delivery 
 mechanism that will provide reimbursement for benefits conferred 
 or recover costs of services participants perform; 

    (11) describe how local resources will be used to provide 
 support and assistance for participants to encourage them to 
 continue with the program, fulfill the terms of the contract, 
 and remain eligible for any postservice benefit; 

    (12) describe the arbitration mechanism for dispute 
 resolution required under section 124D.42, subdivision 2; 

    (13) describe involvement of community leaders in 
 developing broad-based support for the program; 

    (14) describe the consultation and sign-off process to be 
 used with any local labor organization representing employees in 
 the area engaged in work similar to that proposed for the 
 program to ensure that no current employees or available 
 employment positions will be displaced by program participants; 

    (15) certify to the commission and to any certified 
 bargaining representatives representing employees of the 
 applying organization that the project will not decrease 
 employment opportunities that would be available without the 
 project; will not displace current employees including any 
 partial displacement in the form of reduced hours of work other 
 than overtime, wages, employment benefits, or regular seasonal 
 work; will not impair existing labor agreements; and will not 
 result in the substitution of project funding for preexisting 
 funds or sources of funds for ongoing work; 

    (16) describe the length of the required service period, 
 which may not be less than six months or more than two years, a 
 method to incorporate a participant's readiness to advance or 
 need for postservice financial assistance into individual 
 service requirements, and any opportunity for participating part 
 time or in another program; 

    (17) describe a program evaluation plan that contains 
 cost-effectiveness measures, measures of participant success 
 including educational accomplishments, job placements, community 
 contributions, and ongoing volunteer activities, outcome 
 measures based on a preprogram and postprogram survey of 
 community rates of arrest, incarceration, teenage pregnancy, and 
 other indicators of youth in trouble, and a list of local 
 resources dedicated to reducing these rates; 

    (18) describe a three-year financial plan for maintaining 
 the program; 

    (19) describe the role of local youth in developing all 
 aspects of the grant proposal; and 

    (20) describe the process by which the local private 
 industry council participated in, and reviewed the grant 
 application. 

    HIST: 1993 c 146 art 5 s 8,20; 1994 c 647 art 4 s 6; 1Sp1995 c 
 3 art 4 s 4,30; 1Sp1997 c 4 art 3 s 20; 1998 c 397 art 3 s 
 11,103; art 11 s 3; 1998 c 398 art 3 s 18; 2000 c 254 s 22