File #: A 15-233    Name: Goodwill Central Coast
Type: BoS Agreement Status: Passed
File created: 6/25/2015 In control: Board of Supervisors
On agenda: 7/7/2015 Final action: 7/7/2015
Title: a. Approve and authorize the Director of the Department of Social Services, or his designee, to sign an agreement with Goodwill Central Coast for $1,200,000 to provide Expanded Subsidized Employment (ESE) training, supervision, intensive case management and job performance evaluations for CalWORKs Welfare-to-Work customers, for the period July 1, 2015 through June 30, 2016; and b. Authorize the Director of the Department of Social Services, or his designee, to sign up to three (3) amendments to this agreement where the total amendments do not exceed 10% of the original contract amount, and do not significantly change the scope of work.
Attachments: 1. Board Report, 2. Goodwill Contract, 3. Completed Board Order, 4. Fully Executed Agreement between the County of Monterey and Goodwill Central Coast, 5. Fully Executed Agreement between the County of Monterey and Sable Computer, Inc. dba Keep It Simple Computer Center (K.I.S.)
Title
a. Approve and authorize the Director of the Department of Social Services, or his designee, to sign an agreement with Goodwill Central Coast for $1,200,000 to provide Expanded Subsidized Employment (ESE) training, supervision, intensive case management and job performance evaluations for CalWORKs Welfare-to-Work customers, for the period July 1, 2015 through June 30, 2016; and
b. Authorize the Director of the Department of Social Services, or his designee, to sign up to three (3) amendments to this agreement where the total amendments do not exceed 10% of the original contract amount, and do not significantly change the scope of work.

Report
RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that the Board of Supervisors:
a. Approve and authorize the Director of the Department of Social Services, or his designee, to sign an agreement with Goodwill Central Coast for $1,200,000 to provide Expanded Subsidized Employment (ESE) training, supervision, intensive case management and job performance evaluations for CalWORKs Welfare-to-Work customers, for the period July 1, 2015 through June 30, 2016; and
b. Authorize the Director of the Department of Social Services, or his designee, to sign up to three (3) amendments to this agreement where the total amendments do not exceed 10% of the original contract amount, and do not significantly change the scope of work.


SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:
The Expanded Subsidized Employment Program is one of the CalWORKs early engagement strategies being implemented as a result of the passage of Assembly Bill 74, codified in Welfare and Institutions Code Sections 11322.63 and 11322.64.

DSS seeks to continue the Expanded Subsidized Employment Program to serve our hardest to employ customers. Monterey County Department of Social Services requested proposals from vendors under RFP #10530. The contract was awarded to Goodwill Central Coast. The project will place 150 CalWORKs Welfare-to-Work customers into immediate subsidized employment ...

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