TITLE
Recommendation to authorize City Manager to execute all documents with the County of Los Angeles and its pass-through agency, the City of Hawthorne on behalf of the South Bay Workforce Investment Board, to receive $3,610,500 in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds to operate a Summer Youth Program that will assist approximately 1,500 youth ages 14-24; execute all documents with various partners and vendors in an amount totaling $247,500; increase appropriations in the Community Development Grants Fund (SR 150) in the Department of Community Development (CD) by $3,610,500; and execute any needed subsequent amendments. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
On April 6, 2010, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved the utilization of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Emergency Contingency Funds awarded to the Department of Public Social Services (DPSS) to provide summer youth employment opportunities for qualifying youth. The Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP) is designed to provide paid work experience opportunities and work readiness skills to qualified youth. Eligible youth may work an average of 180 hours during the summer months, while earning skills, experience, and wages.
To maximize opportunities for SYEP participants, DPSS will utilize the infrastructure of the seven L.A. County Workforce Investment Boards. In March, the Workforce Investment Network (Network) responded to a request from the County to provide program and administrative capacity information to implement a local Program. DPSS recently notified the Network that it is to receive a contract for $3,610,500 to serve approximately 1,500 eligible youth for the 2010 SYEP. Eligible populations will include youth ages 14-19 in CalWORKs or Food Stamp households; eligible foster youth ages 14-19; former foster youth ages 18-24 (transition-aged), living with a relative whose income is below the poverty level; and youth ages 18-24 receiving General Relief.
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