Sec. 45. Grant selection.

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Sec. 45. Grant selection. Applications for funding must be reviewed using the criteria in this Section. The Director must make final funding decisions. Review criteria include:

(1)the appropriateness of the targeted industries and occupations;

(2)the appropriateness of the targeted student population;

(3)the efforts to recruit female and minority students into the project;

(4)the strength of the local partnership and private sector involvement;

(5)the related experience and qualifications of the project staff;

(6)the quality of the project work plan;

(7)the proposed project costs in relationship to planned outcomes;

(8)the relationship of the project to the Department's economic development plans and

initiatives;

(9)the geographic distribution of grant awards throughout the State; and

(10)the quality of presentations made to the Department, if the Department requests

presentations.