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Recommendation to authorize City Manager to execute all documents, and any subsequent amendments thereto, with the State of California to accept $525,960 in Federal Workforce Investment Act funds as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009; authorize City Manager, or his designee, to execute training agreements and amendments with involved employers; and increase appropriations in the Community Development Grants Fund (SR 150) in the Department of Community Development (CD) by $50,000. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
The Workforce Investment Network (Network) administers the federal Workforce Investment Act (WIA) and other employment and training funds received annually by the City. Those funds support job training programs and business services delivered by the Career Transition Center, Youth Opportunity Center, Center for Working Families, Harbor WorkSource Center, and selected community-based organizations to assist local residents acquire skills leading to employment in high demand occupations with local employers.
Following a federal Solicitation this past spring, the State of California was notified in June by the U.S. Department of Labor that it will receive nearly $10 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act WIA/National Emergency Grant funds. Such grants are discretionary, and awarded by the U.S. Secretary of Labor to provide employment-related services for dislocated workers in extraordinary circumstances or conditions. Of this amount, the Network will receive $525,960 to assist eligible dislocated workers affected by the current economic recession in acquiring the skills necessary to enter employment in occupations in high demand throughout the region.
As the project was designed to be used in an on-the-job training format, the Network’s Business Services Team will partner with existing and emerging industry partners willing to hire dislocated workers registered with the Network, with extraordinary costs of on-the-job trai...
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