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Joint resolution accepting the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) program year (PY) 2023 formula grant and authorizing an emergency appropriation in the amount of $5,091,627 for the Lake County Workforce Development Department.
Staff Summary
• The WIOA formula grant funds for the PY 2023 beginning July 1, 2023 have been allocated to Lake County for a total grant of $5,091,627, a increase of $347,677 from the previous year’s PY 2022 allocation.
• The WIOA PY 2023 formula grant has a grant life from July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2025 and will be appropriated in the County Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 Budget.
• The annual WIOA formula grant is used for Workforce Development Department and the Job Center personnel and operations and programs serving unemployed adults, dislocated workers, incumbent workers, and high school students and opportunity youth.
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RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity has provided a PY 2023 Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act funding notice totaling $5,091,627 to the Workforce Development Department; and
WHEREAS, the WIOA Grant includes funding for programs serving unemployed adults, dislocated workers, incumbent workers, high school students and opportunity youth; and
WHEREAS, the WIOA Grant has a grant life of July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2025.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by this County Board of Lake County, Illinois, that an emergency appropriation in the amount of $5,091,627 as detailed in the attached chart of accounts is hereby approved and the WIOA PY 2023 Formula Grant is hereby accepted.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois on September 12, 2023.