TO:
Honorable Mayor Powell and Members of the City Council
THROUGH:
David N. Carmany, City Manager
FROM:
Clay Curtin, Senior Management Analyst
SUBJECT:Title
Amendment No. 5 to the Joint Powers Agreement No. 83-100 for the Workforce Investment Board
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Recommended Action
RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends that the City Council approve Amendment No. 5 to the Joint Powers Agreement for the Workforce Investment Board.
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FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
None.
BACKGROUND:
In 1983, in response to the Federal Job Training Partnership Act, cities all across the country were asked to create a partnership between business, labor, community organizations and government. The essence of this legislation was to create job training and employment opportunities for the unemployed and underemployed.
This partnership took the form of Private Industry Councils which were required to be representative of all the above groups. As a result of this directive from Washington, cities were required to meet minimum population requirements in order to receive funding for the vast array of new job programs. For cities with populations under 200,000, they were allowed to join together in a consortium of geographically adjacent municipalities. However, it was necessary for the partnership to come together in an orderly manner with the obligatory rules, regulations and bylaws necessary for governance.
As the largest city in the South Bay Area, Inglewood under the direction of Jan Vogel, took the lead in bringing together the original eight cities which comprised what was then known as the South Bay Service Delivery Area. Those cities in alphabetical order were: El Segundo, Gardena, Hawthorne, Hermosa Beach, Inglewood, Lawndale, Manhattan Beach and Redondo Beach. These cities each selected representatives from within their borders to serve on what became known as the Private Industry Council of the South Bay Service Delivery Area.
This arrangement worked well for all concerned. Job training and educational opportunities sprung up all over the South Bay. Many of those programs were specifically tailored to the commercial interests in each community. The South Bay Private Industry Council received some national recognition as one of the few truly successful consortia made up entirely of municipalities and not otherwise affiliated with larger governmental regions such as the county or state.
By 1998, Congress decided to reinvent and reinvigorate this Business-Labor-Community-Government partnership. It did so by passing the Workforce Investment Act of 1998. The Private Industry Councils were replaced by Workforce Investment Boards and the Service Delivery Areas became known as Workforce Investment Areas. With an infusion of funds the South Bay Workforce Investment Board, led by Jan Vogel as its Executive Director, proved to be leaps and bounds ahead of other consortia. Evidence of that is the recognition it has received as one of the top three Workforce Investment Boards in the United States. Each of the member cities has received the proportional benefits of the Workforce Investment Board's work within their city.
When the County of Los Angeles received millions of dollars in stimulus money, it needed to find an effective caretaker to administer the funds and deliver the services to residents. It chose the South Bay Workforce Investment Board. The Transitional Subsidized Employment Program proved to be so successful that it led to a National Emergency Grant wherein the South Bay Workforce Investment Board, in conjunction with its nonprofit arm, the SBWIB, Inc., acted as the administrator for a consortium of over 20 large and small governmental consortia throughout California. The South Bay Workforce Investment Board is now administering the largest National Emergency Grant awarded by the US Department of Labor to serve laid-off workers from specific companies and government agencies in California. Many of these are local laid-off teachers being retrained in four-year colleges to become science and math teachers.
DISCUSSION:
Attached is Amendment No. 5 to the Joint Powers Agreement previously entered into by all of the above referenced cities. The Workforce Investment Act of 1998 requires that each consortium such as the South Bay Workforce Investment Board, identify a Chief Local Elected Official (CLEO) whose function it is to sign various official documents of the Workforce Investment Board. Currently, the Joint Powers Agreement of the member cities identifies the City of Hawthorne as the Administrative Entity for the South Bay Workforce Investment Area and the City Council of the City of Hawthorne, with the Mayor of Hawthorne having the authority to sign on their behalf, as the Chief Local Elected Official.
It is proposed by Amendment No. 5 that the City of Hawthorne be replaced as Administrative Entity by the City of Inglewood and that the City Council and Mayor of Hawthorne be replaced as Chief Local Elected Official in favor of the City Council and Mayor of Inglewood.
This change will have no effect on the delivery of services to any member city.
In order to adopt this amendment an affirmative vote of at least 75% of the member cities is required.
CONCLUSION:
Staff recommends that the City Council approve Amendment No. 5 to the Joint Powers Agreement for the Workforce Investment Board.
Attachments:
1. Amendment No. 5 to the Joint Powers Agreement for the Workforce Investment Board.