Title
Joint resolution approving an emergency appropriation to accept the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) Trade Adjustment Assistance grant modification and authorizing an emergency appropriation in the amount of $286,232.67.
Staff Summary
• The TAA federal grant provides funding for reemployment services to displaced workers who have lost their jobs as a result of increased imports or shifts in production outside the United States.
• The additional funds of $272,144.67 is for tuition and related training expenditures for the displaced workers.
• The additional funds of $14,088 support activities associated with payment processing of tuition, training and transportation costs.
• Forty-nine eligible displaced workers are enrolled in occupational training from thirteen certified events and will continue services through this grant.
• The grant period is April 1, 2017 through September 30, 2018.
Body
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, The Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity has provided a TAA grant modification totaling $286,232.67 to the Lake County Workforce Development Department; and,
WHEREAS, this grant is for the program period of April 1, 2017 through September 30, 2018; and
WHEREAS, this funding covers tuition and related training expenses for displaced workers impacted from multiple plant closings and lay-offs eligible under the Trade Adjustment Assistance and activities associated with payment processing; and
WHEREAS, an emergency appropriation of $286,232.67 is requested to allocate these funds into Workforce Development’s county fiscal year 2017 budget and authorize acceptance of this grant.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by this County Board of Lake County, Illinois, that _a CFY’17 emergency appropriation in the amount of $285,193.67 for Workforce Development is hereby approved and that the Trade Adjustment Assistance grant be accepted.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on December 12, 2017.