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OUTDOOR ATHLETIC COURT APPLICATION FOR FISCAL YEAR 1978 ELIGIBLE APPLICANTS: Eligible applicants are; counties, cities, towns, school districts, and public post secondary education institutions along with special park districts or elected park and recreation boards in cities of the first class. GRANT FUNDING FOR 1978: The 1977 session of the Minnesota Legislature at the request of Governor Perpich enacted an Outdoor Recreation Grant Program to be financed with proceeds from the sale of bonds. Included is a new program which provides 50% of the development cost of outdoor athletic court facilities to be used for tennis, basketball, volleyball, and handball on existing public land. Applications were sent out July 1, 1977 for projects to be constructed during the summer construction season of 1977. The enclosed application is for the remainder of these funds for the 1978 construction season. Highest ranking projects will be programmed for a 50% state grant to be matched by a 50% local share. Amount available for fiscal year 1978: Metropolitan Area Local Governments Local Governments in the Remainder 50% State Grants $300,000 of the State $300,000 Submission deadline: The attached application (yellow form) must be received by 5 p.m. on September 16, 1977. Applications received after the September 1I3, 1977 deadline or incomplete applications will be returned. Submit application to: Parks and Recreation Grants Section State Planning Agency Room 101, Capitol Square Building St. Paul, Minnesota 55101 A copy of the completed application should also be sent to the appropriate regional development commission, metropolitan clearinghouse, or the Metropolitan Council for review, at the same time it is sent to the Office of Local and Urban Affairs (see attachment 1). We will ask each regional development commission and the Metropolitan Council to help rank applications from their respective regions. If you have any questions concerning these applications, please call the Parks and Recreation Grants Section at (612) 296 -4703. ELIGIBLE FACILITIES: "Outdoor athletic courts" means a special surface area and supporting equipment for structures boundaries sand aare played ontan marked hsurfacce,ulimited to basketball, volleyball, handball, and tennis. EVALUATION CRITERIA: APPLICATIONS OUTSTATE OF THE JURISDICTION OF THE METROPOLITAN COUNCIL SHALL BE EVALUATED AND RANKED BY OLUA BY GIVING EQUAL CONSIDERATION TO EACH OF THE FOLLOWING CRITERIA: Priority shall be given to eligible applicants that demonstrate athletic courts will be developed jointly with one or more eligible applicant. Included shall be evidence of cooperative use of such facilities between schools, cities, and other local units. Eligible project applications received by OLUA shall be ranked in order from highest to lowest in relation to those projects located in cities or towns which have the lowest number of similar public athletic courts to their population. Eligible project applications received by OLUA shall be ranked in order from highest to lowest by the distance the project is located away from similar existing public athletic courts. (4) Priority shall be given to eligible applicants that can demonstrate that the proposed courts are readily accessible to the public by vehicular and pedestrian traffic, serve residential areas, and are available to the i, onmunity.