Title
Joint resolution accepting the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Local Incentive Grant and approving an emergency appropriation in the amount of $20,772.
Staff Summary
• Workforce Development has specific indicators to measure performance for workforce development activities that apply to adult, dislocated workers and youth programs.
• Workforce Development met the two performance indicators for the time frame ending June 2017 that included a grant expenditure rate meeting the 40 percent required threshold for direct participant training, reporting occupational training and employment outcomes align to the high demand occupations in the region.
• The WIOA Local Incentive grant of $20,772 may be used for workforce development activities through June 30, 2019.
Body
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, The Illinois DCEO has provided a WIOA Local Incentive grant in the total of $20,772 to the Lake County Workforce Development Department; and
WHEREAS, this grant is received because Workforce Development met the two performance indicators for the timeframe ending June 2017; and
WHEREAS, this grant is for the period through June 30, 2019, to deliver workforce development activities; and
WHEREAS, an emergency appropriation of $20,772 is requested to allocate these funds into the Workforce Department’s county fiscal year 2018 budget and authorize acceptance of this grant.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by this County Board of Lake County, Illinois, that an emergency appropriation in the amount of $20,772 for the Workforce Development Department is hereby approved and that the WIOA Local Incentive grant be accepted.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on July 10, 2018.