TITLE
Recommendation to authorize City Manager to execute all documents with the U.S. Department of Labor and its pass-through fiscal agent, the City of Hawthorne on behalf of the South Bay Workforce Investment Board, to receive up to $4,058,200 in Federal Workforce Investment Act/National Emergency Grant funds to operate a two-year Multi-Sector Workforce Partnership project; authorize City Manager, or his designee, to execute agreements and amendments with training providers and employers; increase appropriations in the Community Development Grants Fund (SR 150) in the Department of Human Resources (HR) by $400,000; and execute any needed subsequent amendments. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
Pacific Gateway Workforce 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, Torrance Career Center, Harbor WorkSource Center, and selected community-based organizations to assist local residents acquire skills leading to employment in high demand occupations with local employers.
In response to mounting public sector and private industry needs, several of the State’s local boards collaborated on an unsolicited grant application last year to operate the Multi-Sector Workforce Partnership project. The Project has been approved by the U.S. Department of Labor with funding of $45,080,077 in 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. The project is designed to provide re-employment services to approximately 5,880 workers affected by layoffs from a number of private and public sector employers located in 20 California Counties, and will be operated by 21 organizations.
Of the total grant amount, Pacific Gateway will receive $4,058,...
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