Title
Joint resolution delegating limited signature authority regarding workforce development funds and activities.
Staff Summary
• As defined under the Workforce Investment Act and now continuing under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, the Lake County Board Chairman serves as the Chief Elected Official (CEO) for the local workforce development area encompassing Lake County.
• Acceptance and implementation of the County’s Workforce Development grant programs requires the CEO’s (County Board Chairman’s) signature on various documents of minor technical nature, creating an undue administrative burden on the Chairman.
• This item authorizes the designee(s), to sign and execute agreements or documents required for workforce development grant administration activities that have previously been approved by the Lake County Board in order to alleviate the administrative burden.
Body
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, Lake County is the local recipient of federal and state workforce grant funds, with said funds used for workforce activities undertaken by the Lake County Workforce Development Department as overseen with policy direction by the Lake County Workforce Investment Board; and
WHEREAS, the largest allocation of funds are provided annually through the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) funds appropriated to the State of Illinois by the federal Department of Labor, which are then distributed by the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity to local workforce areas including Lake County; and
WHEREAS, the Lake County Board authorizes all activities and funding disbursements under the County’s Workforce Development Department; and
WHEREAS, the acceptance and implementation of the WIOA and other workforce funds requires the signature of the Chief Elected Official (CEO) for the Local Workforce Development Area, in Lake County that being the Lake County Board Chairman, on various documents of minor technical nature, creating an undue administrative burden on the Chairman; and
WHEREAS, it is the intent to ease the undue administrative burden on the Chairman; and
WHEREAS, the Lake County Board, in its authorization of all activities and funding disbursements under the County’s Workforce Development federal grant programs, authorizes the Lake County Board Chairman as CEO to sign all documents that implement this authority; and
WHEREAS, the Lake County Board Chairman will retain sole authorization to sign certain substantive documents and will be authorized to name specific named individuals to sign certain other documents as listed in Appendix A.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by this County Board of Lake County, Illinois, that the Lake County Board Chairman, as Chief Elected Official, is hereby authorized to delegate signatory authority to certain named individuals for workforce development documents as listed in Appendix A.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on October 13, 2015.