2005 Minnesota Statutes

     119A.45 Early childhood learning and child protection 
  facilities. 

    The commissioner may make grants to state agencies and 
 political subdivisions to construct or rehabilitate facilities 
 for early childhood programs, 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 parenting 
 time 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 
 must 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.  
 Programs include Head Start, early childhood and family 
 education programs, and other early childhood intervention 
 programs.  The commissioner must 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, 
 nontraditional hour care, and programs that include services to 
 refugee and immigrant families.  The commissioner may give 
 priority to grants for programs that will increase their child 
 care workers' wages as a result of the grant.  If there is work 
 that is appropriate for youthbuild, as mutually agreed upon by 
 the grantee and the local youthbuild program, considering safety 
 and skills needed, and if it is demonstrated by youthbuild that 
 using youthbuild will not increase the overall cost of the 
 project, then priority must be given to grants for programs that 
 utilize youthbuild under sections 116L.361 to 116L.366 for at 
 least 25 percent of each grant awarded or $50,000, whichever is 
 less, of 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. 

    HIST: 1998 c 273 s 9; 1999 c 86 art 1 s 29; 1999 c 205 art 1 s 
 2; 2000 c 444 art 2 s 3; 2000 c 492 art 1 s 47; 2002 c 380 art 6 
 s 1; 2004 c 206 s 52