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Joint resolution accepting the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) Trade Adjustment Assistance grant modification and Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Rapid Response grant modifications, in the amount of $304,745.95, and authorizing an emergency appropriation.
Staff Summary
· The Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) grant modification of $247,834.95 includes funds to pay tuition, fees and books for 51 workers impacted by sixteen TAA certified dislocation events. The grant period is through September 30, 2014.
· The WIA Rapid Response Grant modification of $62,222 includes funding for staff costs related to case management services to unemployed individuals certified as eligible under the TAA for the program period November 1, 2013 to June 30, 2015.
· The WIA Rapid Response grant modification reduces the training and administration grant funds budget by $5,311, whereas only 21 of the planned 22 impacted workers of the Motorola dislocation event were served. The grant period is through June 30, 2015.
· Impacted workers from the Motorola dislocation can access services through the TAA grant, in which six are currently enrolled in services.
Body
WHEREAS, The Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity has accepted and provided a grant modification to the TAA grant totaling $247,834.95 to the Lake County Workforce Development Department; and
WHEREAS, The Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity has provided a WIA Rapid Response grant modification totaling $62,222 to the Lake County Workforce Development Department; and
WHEREAS, The Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity modified and reduced the WIA Rapid Response grant by a total of $5,311 to the Lake County Workforce Development Department; and
WHEREAS, these grants are for the program period of June 30, 2015, to provide services to individuals from dislocation events and certified under the Workforce Investment Act and the Trade Adjustment Assistance Act; and
WHEREAS, this funding is expected to cover participant direct training and support service costs and staff costs for workers impacted from multiple plant closings and lay-offs; and
WHEREAS, a FY 2014 emergency appropriation of $304,745.95 is requested to allocate these funds into the Workforce Department's FY 2014 budget and authorize acceptance of these grant modifications.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by this County Board of Lake County, Illinois, that a FY 2014 emergency appropriation in the amount of $304,745.95 for the Workforce Development Department is hereby approved and that the WIA Rapid Response grant and Trade Adjustment Act grant modifications be accepted. A chart of accounts is attached.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on May 13, 2014.