2002 Minnesota Statutes

     124D.43 Priority given to eligible organization meeting 
  specific goals. 

    The commission must give priority to an eligible 
 organization proposing a program that meets the goals of 
 sections 124D.39 to 124D.42, and that: 

    (1) involves youth in a meaningful way in all stages of the 
 program, including assessing community needs, preparing the 
 application, and assuming postservice leadership and mentoring 
 responsibilities; 

    (2) serves a community with significant unmet needs; 

    (3) provides an approach that is most likely to reduce 
 arrest rates, incarceration rates, teenage pregnancy, and other 
 indicators of troubled youth; 

    (4) builds linkages with existing, successful programs; and 

    (5) can be operational quickly. 

    HIST: 1993 c 146 art 5 s 10,20; 1994 c 647 art 4 s 8; 1Sp1995 
 c 3 art 4 s 10; 1Sp1997 c 4 art 3 s 20; 1998 c 397 art 3 s 
 17,103; art 11 s 3; 1998 c 398 art 3 s 18; 2000 c 254 s 26