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a. Authorize the Chair of the Board of Supervisors to sign as the Chief Elected Official for the Monterey County local workforce development area, and agree to the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Workforce Development Board of San Benito County, effective January 1, 2017 through September 30, 2017, for provision of Proposition 39 (The California Clean Energy Jobs Act) Pre-Apprenticeship Support, Training, and Placement Grant services; and
b. Approve and authorize the Interim Executive Director of the Monterey County Workforce Development Board to sign the MOU.
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RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that the Board of Supervisors:
a. Authorize the Chair of the Board of Supervisors to sign as the Chief Elected Official for the Monterey County local workforce development area, and agree to the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Workforce Development Board of San Benito County, effective January 1, 2017 through September 30, 2017, for provision of Proposition 39 (The California Clean Energy Jobs Act) Pre-Apprenticeship Support, Training, and Placement Grant services; and
b. Approve and authorize the Interim Executive Director of the Monterey County Workforce Development Board to sign the MOU.
SUMMARY:
In late 2015, the California Workforce Development Board issued a Request for Application (RFA) for phase II of Proposition 39 Pre-Apprenticeship Support, Training, and Placement (Prop 39) grant funding, specifically for training implementation activities. The workforce boards of Monterey, Santa Cruz, and San Benito counties and their partners had previously come together to secure Prop 39 phase I funding to develop an advisory panel of businesses and labor organizations to design a pre-apprenticeship model in 2014. This effort culminated in a pre-apprenticeship model with a Multi-Craft Core Curriculum (MC3). The Santa Cruz County Workforce Development Board was the project lead during phase I of Prop 39 implementation.
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