Current through Public Act 103-1052
Section 20 ILCS 701/45 - Grant selectionApplications 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. P.A. 92-250, eff. 8/3/2001.