TO: Mayor and Commissioners
FROM: Sammie L. Walthour, Director, Neighborhood & Community Services
THROUGH: Terrence Moore, City Manager
DATE: August 19, 2024
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INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT FORMING THE PALM BEACH WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT CONSORTIUM (CONSORTIUM) BY AND BETWEEN PALM BEACH COUNTY (COUNTY) A POLITICAL SUBDIVISION OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA AND THE CITY OF DELRAY BEACH, THE CITY OF PALM BEACH GARDENS, THE CITY OF SOUTH BAY AND THE CITY OF WEST PALM BEACH FOR THE PURPOSE OF ESTABLISHING AN ISD AND TO IMPLEMENT FEDERAL AND STATE WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS AND RELATED ACTIVITIES IN PALM BEACH COUNTY, FLORIDA UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THE WORKFORCE INNOVATION AND OPPORTUNITY ACT, THE TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE TO NEEDY FAMILIES ACT, THE WAGNER-PEYSER ACT AND THE FLORIDA WORKFORCE INNOVATION ACT OF 2000 ('WORKFORCE PROGRAMS").
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Recommended Action:
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Motion to Approve the Interlocal Agreement between the parties to this Agreement under the Palm Beach Workforce Development Consortium (Consortium) (R2021-1457) for the purpose of establishing an Independent Special District (ISD) and to implement Federal and State workforce development programs and related activities in Palm Beach County.
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Background:
CareerSource Palm Beach County, Inc. currently operates as the County's administrative entity to provide policy guidance for implementing and exercising oversight with respect to job training activities under the Workforce Innovation Act of 2000 (Florida Statutes, Chapter 445). The lnterlocal Agreement designates CareerSource as the fiscal agent, grant recipient and administrative entity to administer such funding sources as may be available to support workforce development activities for Region 21, Palm Beach County, Florida. The Third Amendment added the City of West Palm Beach as a Consortium member and establishes the Board of County Commissioners as Chief Elected Official (CEO) of the Consortiu...
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