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Joint resolution accepting the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) program year (PY) 2022 formula grant and authorizing an emergency appropriation in the amount of $4,743,950 for the Lake County Workforce Development Department.
Staff Summary
• The WIOA formula grant funds for the PY 2022 beginning July 1, 2022 have been allocated to Lake County for a total grant of $4,743,950, a decrease of $326,588 from the previous year’s PY 2021 allocation.
• The WIOA PY 2022 formula grant has a grant life from July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2024 and will be appropriated in the County Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 Budget.
• The annual WIOA formula grant is used for Workforce Development Department and the Job Center personnel and operations and programs serving unemployed adults, dislocated workers, incumbent workers, and high school students and opportunity youth.
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RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity has provided a PY 2022 Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act funding notice totaling $4,743,950 to the 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; and
WHEREAS, the WIOA Grant has a grant life of July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2024.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by this County Board of Lake County, Illinois, that the WIOA PY 2022 Formula Grant is hereby accepted.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois on October 11, 2022.