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County Administrator's Report 10. 7.

BCC Regular Meeting

Technical/Public Service Consent

Meeting Date:	06/25/2015
Issue: Local Workforce Area Designation and Continued Charter of the Existing Regional Workforce Board
From:	Marilyn D. Wesley
Department:	Community Affairs
CAO Approval:

RECOMMENDATION:

Recommendation Concerning the Application for Initial Local Workforce Area Designation and Continued Charter of the Existing Regional Workforce Board - Marilyn D. Wesley, Community Affairs Department Director

That the Board take the following action:

A. Approve, subject to Legal review and sign-off, the Application for Initial Local Workforce Area Designation and Continued Charter of the Existing Regional Workforce Board, effective July 1, 2015, through June 30, 2017; and

B. Authorize the Chairman as the Chief Elected Official to sign the Application and all related documents.

BACKGROUND:

On July 2014, President Obama signed into law the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA). This law replaces the Workforce Investment Act (WIA). On April 28, 2015, Workforce Escarosa dba CareerSource escarosa received instructions from the State Board of Directors, Careersource Florida regarding transitioning current regional workforce boards to serve as local workforce areas which were in existence prior to enactment of WIOA.

The Governor must designate local workforce development areas in order for the State to receive adult dislocated worker, and youth funding under Title 1, subtitle B of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA). The law allows the Governor to provide an initial designation to those local areas that were designated as local areas under the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA), and for which the local chief Elected Official and the local Workforce Board submits a request for initial designation.

The CareerSource Florida professional team in coordination with the Department of Economic Opportunity has reviewed the performance and financial integrity of each of the State's 24 currently designated workforce regions and existing regional workforce boards. As a result of that review, a recommendation will be presented to the CareerSource Florida Board of Directors to initially designate as local workforce areas all 24 workforce regions previously designated under the Workforce Investment Act and to continue the charter of existing regional workforce boards for the period from July 1, 2015 through June 30, 2017. This will allow the State to smoothly transition into the new law and provide sufficient time over the next two years to begin to meet the requirements of the new law.

BUDGETARY IMPACT:

N/A

LEGAL CONSIDERATIONS/SIGN-OFF:

Approved pending legal review and sign-off by the County Attorney's Office.

PERSONNEL:

N/A

POLICY/REQUIREMENT FOR BOARD ACTION:

The Board must grant authorization for the Chief Elected Official's signature in submission of the request.

IMPLEMENTATION/COORDINATION:

Upon approval by the Board, the application will then be submitted to CareerSource Florida, for submission to the Office of the Governor.

Attachments
Application