(1) a description of the proposed project, including the type of skills training or education to be provided;

(2) an estimate of the total cost of the proposed project and an itemization of estimated costs associated with equipment, personnel, facilities and materials;

(3) a description of the economic development benefits expected to be achieved by the proposed project;

(4) a description, which may include data available from the Department of Labor, of the employment needs expected to be filled, including the number and types of jobs to be created or preserved;

(5) a statement of the technical assistance and financial support to be provided by the eligible applicant and the business or businesses for which a proposed project is designed, and from other sources;

(6) a demonstration of the extent to which assistance will be used to complement and leverage services available to businesses under other State-, local- or Federal-assisted training programs;

(7) a statement that for any positions opened as a result of training assistance, businesses shall first consider persons eligible to participate in Job Training Partnership Act programs who shall be referred to such businesses by administrative entities of service delivery areas created pursuant to such act or the Job Service Division of the Department of Labor;

(8) a projection of anticipated outcomes, including, as appropriate, job placement rates, the number of jobs to be opened to targeted individuals as a result of skills-upgrading activities, and promotion, or wage increases for persons participating in skills-upgrading projects;

(9) commitments from individual businesses to hire individuals who have successfully completed training;

(10) a statement, where appropriate, of the extent to which the proposed assistance will be used to aid small businesses;

(11) a statement, where appropriate, of the extent to which the proposed assistance will either aid targeted individuals, or be used to provide skills upgrading for currently employed individuals which will result in the creation of new jobs which will be filled by targeted individuals;

(12) a statement that the proposed training shall not impair the provisions of any existing collective bargaining agreement and that, where possible, consultation with the appropriate labor organization has been undertaken by the applicant;

(13) a description of arrangements developed through other resources to provide child-care assistance for trainees in need of such assistance; and

(14) a statement describing how the proposed project conforms to the annual statewide economic development strategic plan.