Title
Resolution approving the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the Job Center of Lake County and authorizing the MOU to the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity.
Staff Summary
• Workforce Innovation Opportunity Act (WIOA) requires a MOU be entered into by all required partners, the Workforce Development Board and the Chief Elected Official (CEO) establishing and maintaining a high-quality workforce development system and Job Center.
• The MOU documents how partners will collaborate and integrate services and resources to serve the individual customers and the business customers.
• The MOU also documents how each partner will contribute its proportionate and agreed upon share of the Job Center’s infrastructure costs and one-stop delivery system costs.
• The term of the MOU is July 1, 2019 to June 30, 2020.
Body
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, the WIOA requires that local workforce development areas develop and submit workforce compliance plans in order for the local workforce development area to receive WIOA Formula funding, as distributed through their State workforce agency; and
WHEREAS, Lake County has been designated as a local workforce development area by the State of Illinois; and
WHEREAS, the Lake County Workforce Development Board has reviewed and approved the Job Center of Lake County Memorandum of Understanding; and
WHEREAS, submission of this MOU requires the approval and signature of the Lake County Board Chairman, as Chief Elected Official (CEO) for the local workforce area, and.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by this County Board of Lake County, Illinois, that the Job Center of Lake County Memorandum of Understanding is hereby approved; and that the Chairman of the Lake County Board as CEO for the local workforce development area is hereby authorized to execute the MOU for submission to the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on July 9, 2019.