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a. Approve and authorize the Executive Director of the Monterey County Workforce Development Board (WDB) to execute an Agreement with Arbor E&T, LLC, doing business as Equus Workforce Solutions, in an amount not to exceed $125,000, to provide WIOA One Stop Operator services to the WDB retroactive to July 1, 2022, for the period of July 1, 2022, through June 30, 2023; and
b. Approve and authorize the Executive Director of the WDB to execute up to three (3) future amendments of one (1) year each, subject to County Counsel review and approval by the Board of Supervisors, to extend the Agreement on substantially the same terms
Report
RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that the Board of Supervisors, in its role as the Chief Elected Official of the Monterey County Workforce Development area:
a. Approve and authorize the Executive Director of the Monterey County Workforce Development Board (WDB) to execute an Agreement with Arbor E&T, LLC, doing business as Equus Workforce Solutions, in an amount not to exceed $125,000, to provide WIOA One Stop Operator services to the WDB retroactive to July 1, 2022, for the period of July 1, 2022, through June 30, 2023; and
b. Approve and authorize the Executive Director of the WDB to execute up to three (3) future amendments of one (1) year each, subject to County Counsel review and approval by the Board of Supervisors, to extend the Agreement on substantially the same terms
SUMMARY:
Background
The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) contemplates that the One-Stop service delivery system will be managed by a One-Stop Operator responsible to coordinate the delivery of services by One-Stop partners. WIOA requires the competitive procurement of One-Stop Operators and concurrence of the chief elected official of the Local Area: here, the Board of Supervisors.
Following a 2017 RFP process, Arbor E&T, then doing business as ResCare Workforce Services, had entered into a cost reimbursement agreement with the WDB, effecti...
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