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Recommendation to authorize City Manager to execute all documents with the State of California and any subsequent amendments that change the terms or increase grant amounts for the workforce programs; execute an Agreement of Assignment and other necessary agreements with the City of Torrance for existing contracts, leases, grants and agreements; execute all documents with the City of Los Angeles to assume operations of the Harbor WorkSource Center; and authorize an increase in appropriations in the Community Development Grant Fund (SR 150) in the Department of Community Development (CD) by $5,995,005. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
Each year the City receives a formula allocation of federal Workforce Investment Act (WIA) funds from the State Employment Development Department (EDD) to deliver workforce development services to residents and businesses in the local workforce area consisting of Long Beach and Signal Hill. In December 2006 the Workforce Investment Board participated in discussions with the neighboring Carson/Lomita/Torrance (CL T) Workforce Investment Board (WIB) to create an expanded workforce area. Following a series of presentations, public meetings and decisions by CL T elected officials, formal applications were made to the State to join Lomita and Torrance with Long Beach, and for Carson to join the South Bay WIB.
The expanded workforce area positions the Workforce Development Bureau to better leverage workforce operations in the participating local cities, facilitate greater access to services for residents and the cities' overlapping demand industry sectors, and provide greater financial stability to sustain and build services to adults, youth and local businesses.
The City of Torrance, on behalf of the CL T WIB, currently administers all current grants from the State to deliver workforce development services for that local workforce area.
During the first year of transition, carry-over funds and other existing agreements necessary to delive...
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