Title
Joint resolution approving a Sub Award Agreement with the College of Lake County for Workforce Development to provide services under the Climate Equity Jobs Act (CEJA) Workforce Hub Project and authorizing an emergency appropriation in the amount not to exceed $2,052,138 for the Workforce Development Department and increasing the headcount of Workforce Development by five full-time employees.
Staff Summary
• College of Lake County is the grant recipient of the Illinois Clean Jobs Workforce Network Program Grant through the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity and in collaboration with Workforce Development will provide comprehensive training and support services to prepare individuals for careers in clean energy and related industries.
• Workforce Development will conduct community outreach, provide transition services including career counseling, supportive services and barrier reduction services, participant stipends, case management, essential workplace basic training and employment related services.
• The services will focus efforts within the identified communities of the Restore, Reinvest and Renew (R3) Zones including North Chicago, Waukegan and Zion and the Equity Investment Eligible communities of North Chicago, Waukegan, Zion, Gurnee, Highland Park, Highwood, Mundelein and Buffalo Grove.
• Workforce Development will add five positions to be hired throughout the life of the agreement based on the participants being served; these positions include an instructor, 2 transition service coordinators, an employer coordinator, and a wrap-around service coordinator.
• The Subaward will reimburse for program staff, participant stipends, and work-based learning wages, financial supportive services, and barrier reduction services including but not limited to transportation, childcare, and examination fees.
• If grant funding for the positions and services end, and new funding is not secured, the positions and services will be eliminated.
• The Subaward term is July 1, 2024, through June 30, 2025, and will be appropriated in the County Fiscal Year 2024 Budget.
Body
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, the College of Lake County is the grant recipient of the Illinois Clean Jobs Workforce Network Program Grant and is collaborating with Workforce Development to deliver services and entering into a subaward agreement with a budget not to exceed $2,052,138; and
WHEREAS, the Subaward Agreement includes funding for program staff, participant stipends and work-based learning wages, supportive services, barrier reduction services and examination fees; and
WHEREAS, Workforce Development will be adding five new positions to the position inventory to carry out the program delivery and that these positions will be eliminated if or when this grant’s funding is no longer available and no other funding source outside of property tax dollars has been identified; and
WHEREAS, if grant funding for the positions and services end, and new funding is not secured, the positions and services will be eliminated; and
WHEREAS, the Subaward Agreement is a 12 month agreement July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2025.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by this County Board of Lake County, Illinois, that the College of Lake County Subaward Agreement with Workforce Development is hereby accepted and an emergency appropriation in the amount of $2,052,138 for the Lake County Workforce Development Department is hereby authorized in the Fiscal Year 2024 budget as detailed in the attachment.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on September 10, 2024.