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. An application for a grant under this article shall, at a
minimum, contain all of the following:
(a) The amount of the grant requested and the proposed use of the
grant.
(b) A description of the applicant and a statement of the
applicant's qualifications, including a description of the applicant'
s past experience in running a YouthBuild program, if applicable, a
description of the applicant's past experience with housing
rehabilitation or construction, youth and youth education, youth
leadership development, and youth employment training programs, and a
description of the applicant's relationship with apprenticeship
programs and with community-based organizations.
(c) A description of the proposed construction site and evidence
of site control, and a description of the proposed construction or
rehabilitation activities to be undertaken and the anticipated
schedule for carrying out those activities.
(d) A description of the educational and job training activities,
work opportunities, and other services that will be provided to
participants.
(e) A description of the manner in which eligible youths will be
recruited and selected, including a description of the arrangements
that will be made with community-based organizations, local education
agencies and education agencies of Native American nations, public
assistance agencies, courts of jurisdiction for status and youth
offenders, shelters for homeless individuals and other agencies
serving homeless youth, foster care agencies, and other appropriate
public agencies and private entities.
(f) A description of the special efforts that will be undertaken
to recruit eligible young women as participants, including women with
dependent children, including a description of how those women can
receive appropriate support, including child care.
(g) A description of how the proposed program will be coordinated
with other federal, state, Native American nation, and local agency
activities, including public school programs, the Americorps program,
crime prevention programs, vocational, adult, and bilingual
education programs, and other job training programs.
(h) Substantive assurances that there will be a sufficient number
of adequately trained supervisory personnel in the program who have
attained the journey level or its equivalent.
(i) A description of the applicant's relationship with any local
building trades union, including a description of the union's
involvement in training and the proposed relationship of the
activities to be undertaken pursuant to the grant with established
apprenticeship programs.
(j) A description of activities that will be undertaken to develop
the leadership skills of participants, including their role in
decisionmaking.
(k) A detailed budget and description of a system of fiscal
controls and auditing and accountability procedures that will be used
to ensure fiscal soundness.
(l) A description of any contracts and arrangements entered into
between the applicant and other entities, including all in-kind
donations and grants from both public and private sources that will
augment grant funds made available pursuant to this article.
(m) Identification and description of the financing proposed for
any acquisition of property, or the rehabilitation or construction of
housing.
(n) Identification and description of the entity that will operate
and manage the property.
(o) A certification that the applicant will comply with the
requirements of applicable federal laws, including the Fair Housing
Act, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Section 504 of the
Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the Age Discrimination Act of 1975,
and that the applicant will work to further fair housing policies.
(p) A description of the qualifications and past experience of the
person who will be the full-time director for the applicant's
project to be funded pursuant to this article.
(q) A description of the applicant pool profile, including, but
not limited to, the number of participants currently on parole or
probation, the number of participants with children requiring paid
supervision, and the number of participants with Department of Motor
Vehicles or court-sanctioned holds on their drivers' licenses.