DATE: August 20, 2019
TO: Board of Supervisors
SUBMITTED BY: Blake Konczal, Executive Director
Fresno Regional Workforce Development Board
SUBJECT: Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act Local Plan Program Year 2017-2021, Two Year Modification
RECOMMENDED ACTION(S):
TITLE
Approve and authorize the Chairman to execute the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act biennial updates to the Local Plan for Program Years 2017-2021.
REPORT
ALTERNATIVE ACTION(S):
There is no alternative action. If this item is not approved, Fresno County will be out of compliance with Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) requirements, and could lose funding for WIOA activities that benefit the residents of Fresno County.
FISCAL IMPACT:
There is no increase in Net County Cost associated with the Recommended Action. The Fresno Regional Workforce Development Board (FRWDB) is 100% funded by non-County sources. These are primarily from the United States Department of Labor, and are supplemented by other federal and State of California grants.
DISCUSSION:
On June 18, 2019, your Board approved the biennial updates to the Regional and Local Plans for program years 2017-2021. Subsequently, the Fresno Regional Workforce Development Board discovered that the document forwarded to the Local Chief Elected Official (your Board's Chairman) for the June 18th agenda item did not include the Local Plan biennial updates. Therefore, this item is before your Board to approve and execute the Local Plan.
WIOA Sections 106 and 107 and California UI Code Sections 14221-14222 require that local boards submit a comprehensive four (4) year regional and local plan to the California Workforce Development Board (state board). Under WIOA, a biennial update of regional and local plans is required in order to ensure plans remain current, and account for "changes in labor market and economic conditions or in other factors affecting the implementation of the local plan" (29 U.S. Code ? 3123). Th...
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