Title
Resolution accepting the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Program Year (PY) 2020 grant modification and authorizing an emergency appropriation in the amount of $182,763 for the Lake County Workforce Development Department.
Staff Summary
• The WIOA formula grant funds for PY 2020 modification increases the grant by $182,763 for a total grant award of $6,580,878.
• The annual WIOA formula grant is used for Workforce Development Department and Job Center personnel and operations and programs serving unemployed adults, dislocated workers, incumbent workers, high school students and opportunity youth.
• The WIOA PY 2020 formula grant has a grant life from July 1, 2020 through June 30, 2022.
• This item was inadvertently provided to the Finance and Administrative Committee without prior Health and Community Services (HCS) Committee action. With consent of the HCS Chair, this item is proceeding to the full Board.
Body
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity has provided a PY 2020 WIOA funding modification of $182,763 to the Lake County Workforce Development Department; and
WHEREAS, the WIOA Grant includes funding for programs serving unemployed adults, dislocated workers, incumbent workers, high school students and opportunity youth for the program timeframe July 1, 2020, through June 30, 2022; and
WHEREAS, an emergency appropriation to allocate $182,763 funds into the Workforce Development Department’s county fiscal year 2021 budget and authorize acceptance of this grant modification.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by this County Board of Lake County, Illinois, that an emergency appropriation in the amount of $182,763 for the Workforce Development Department is hereby approved and that the WIOA PY 2020 Formula Grant Modification, be accepted.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois on November 9, 2021.