Title
Joint resolution authorizing the Lake County Workforce Development Department to enter into an agreement with Allan-Odis, Inc., Zion in the amount of $36,480.
Staff Summary
• The Lake County Workforce Development Department was awarded a grant to fund on the job training.
• The grant funds 90% of the wages paid to dislocated workers while they are being trained.
• The agreement will be with Allan-Odis, Inc. a commercial building and condominium management company located in Zion, Illinois.
• One of the new hires will be trained as a finance and construction manager and the other a project manager.
• Both hires are long-term unemployed Lake County residents.
• The cost of training is $32,832 (Workforce Development) plus $3,648 (employer) for a total cost of $36,480. The total training hours is 960 each for new hires at a wage rate of $20 per hour for one new hire and $18 per hour for the second new hire.
Body
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, the Lake County Workforce Investment Board has approved a two-year ARRA-National Emergency On The Job Training Grant, whereby long term dislocated workers can have their wages paid by as much as 90% while they are being trained; and
WHEREAS, the Lake County Workforce Development Department wishes to enter into an agreement with Allan-Odis, Inc., for the purpose of conducting on the job training for 2 newly hired employees; 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 Allan-Odis, Inc., in the amount of $32,832 for the purpose of training 2 on the job training workers charging the costs thereof to account #750-4042040-79940-000-000-000-WDNEG.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on this 13th day of September, 2011.