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a. Approve and authorize the Director or Assistant Director of the Department of Social Services to sign an agreement with Goodwill Central Coast to provide Expanded Subsidized Employment training, supervision, intensive case management, and job performance evaluations for California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids Welfare-to-Work customers, effective July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2024, in the amount of $1,600,000; and
b. Authorize the Director or Assistant Director of the Department of Social Services to sign up to three amendments where the total amendments do not exceed 10% ($160,000) of the original contract amount and do not significantly change the scope of work, not to exceed maximum of $1,760,000.
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RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that the Board of Supervisors:
a. Approve and authorize the Director or Assistant Director of the Department of Social Services to sign an agreement with Goodwill Central Coast to provide Expanded Subsidized Employment training, supervision, intensive case management, and job performance evaluations for California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids Welfare-to-Work customers, effective July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2024, in the amount of $1,600,000; and
b. Authorize the Director or Assistant Director of the Department of Social Services to sign up to three amendments where the total amendments do not exceed 10% ($160,000) of the original contract amount and do not significantly change the scope of work, not to exceed maximum of $1,760,000.
SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:
Expanded Subsidized Employment (ESE) is one of the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) early engagement strategies being implemented as a result of the passage of AB 74 Chapter 21, Statutes of 2013; Welfare and Institutions Code (WIC) Sections 11322.63 and 11322.64.
These services are targeted at the hardest-to-employ CalWORKs Welfare-to-Work customers. These customers have minimal or no work experience ...
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