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Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all documents, and any needed subsequent amendments, with various Pacific Gateway service and product providers for training and employment services to residents, to increase the total amount by $4,750,000, for a revised total aggregate amount not to exceed $4,850,000, and to extend for one additional one-year period, with an option to renew for two additional one-year periods. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
Pacific Gateway administers the Federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) 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, Harbor Gateway WorkSource Center, and selected community-based organizations to assist local residents acquire skills leading to employment in high-demand occupations with local employers.
Pacific Gateway utilizes labor market information, industry feedback and trends to monitor hiring needs, and to ensure that local skill training design and investments are in industries that will most quickly improve, leading to re-employment for residents. For training programs that are not part of Pacific Gateway initiatives connected with local colleges and universities, customers are required by WIOA to select training providers procured and/or approved through the State’s Eligible Training Provider List (ETPL). Vendors under this State list are exempt from other local procurement, as well as employers participating in On-the-Job Training (OJT), and Customized Training (CT) programs, as mandated by WIOA. Once customers select a vendor from the State list, or when an employer engages in an OJT or CT program, Pacific Gateway initiates an agreement and a Blanket Purchase Order (BPO) to accommodate costs of training. Once the BPO is anticipated to exceed $100,000, Pacific Gateway obtains City Council approval to initiate an increase in the BP...
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