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Joint resolution accepting the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) Workforce Innovation Opportunity Act (WIOA) Dislocated Worker Grant and Rapid Response grant modification and authorizing an emergency appropriation in the amount of $47,565.
Staff Summary
* The Workforce Development Department works directly with companies that experience a layoff, closing, or relocation due to lack of work because of increased imports or shifts in production outside the United States through the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) federal program.
* Impacted workers have been laid-off from the following employers: Cardinal Health, Abbot Laboratories, ITW Switches, Motorola Mobility, Modine Manufacturing, Grainger, Nokia Solutions and Networks, Walgreens, Crawford and Company, John Crane Inc., and Assembled Products.
* Workforce Development is working with the 11 employers and has enrolled 64 impacted workers in training and education programs.
* The Rapid Response grant modification of $1,000 increases the funds available for transportation expenses. The grant period is July 1, 2017 through December 31, 2018.
* The WIOA grant modification of $46,565 is for staffing expenses related to case management of the displaced workers. The grant period is October 1, 2018 through June 30, 2020.
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RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, The Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity has provided a WIOA grants totaling $47,565 to the Lake County Workforce Development Department; and,
WHEREAS, these grants are for the program period of July 1, 2017 through December June 30, 2020; and
WHEREAS, this funding covers staffing expenses associated with case management activities for displaced workers impacted from multiple plant closings and lay-offs eligible under the Trade Adjustment Assistance and transportation assistance for impacted workers; and
WHEREAS, an emergency appropriation of $47,656 is requested to allocate these funds into Workforce Developme...
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