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Joint resolution entering into an agreement with Advocate Condell Medical Center - Incumbent Worker Training Grant.
Staff Summary
• Advocate Condell Medical Center expressed interest in the incumbent worker training program. Advocate Condell Medical Center is located in Libertyville; has been in business for 81 years; employs 1,292 staff; and is a healthcare facility that provides medical services to residents.
• A training curriculum was developed to train 39 fulltime registered nurses for a total of 312 training hours to enhance and improve the knowledge of the critical care and emergency nursing staff, improve retention, patient outcomes, improve leadership and management skills and increase the number of nurses.
• The state policy requires that an employer with 100 or more employees provide 50 percent of the cost of the training. Employee wages & fringes can be used to off-set the employer match. The total cost of training is $11,797.50. Lake County Workforce Development will reimburse $11,797.50 and the company will provide employee hourly wages of an additional $5,898.75 for their portion of the match. Cost per employee is $302.50 for 8 hours of training.
Body
WHEREAS, in accordance with the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Policy Letter #05-11 Incumbent Worker Training, the state has received a waiver until June 30, 2009 from the Department of Labor to allow local Workforce Investment Act grant funds to be used to conduct incumbent worker training; and
WHEREAS, the Lake County Workforce Investment Board has modified Lake County’s Workforce Investment Act grant to permit incumbent worker training; and
WHEREAS, the Lake County Workforce Development Department wishes to enter into an agreement with Advocate Condell Medical Center for the purpose of conducting incumbent worker training for 39 Advocate Condell Medical Center workers; and
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by this County Board of Lake County, Illinois, that the Lake County Workforce Development Department is hereby authorized to enter into an Agreement with Advocate Condell Medical Center in the amount of $11,797.50 for the purpose of training 39 incumbent workers charging the costs thereof to account #750-4042030-72680-000-000-000-Y2008 and #750-4042040-72680-000-000-000-Y2008
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on this day of February 10, 2009.