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:
Recommendation
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 Consortium. Countywide (TKF) which was executed and approved on May 14, 2014.
Public Law 113-128 enacted by the congress of the United States effective July 1, 2015, which Act is known as the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act ("WIOA"), established a program to provide universal access to workforce development services for the businesses and citizens of Palm Beach County. The State of Florida's Workforce Development Board CareerSource Florida created by the Legislature in 2000, has been designed by the Governor to take the lead in designing and directing Florida's workforce development strategy. The last amendment was approved by the City Commission on August 10, 2021.
The Consortium shall consist of representatives of the five (5) member governments who shall be elected officials designated to serve by their respective Commission, or Council with the exception of the City of West Palm Beach from which the representative shall be the Mayor. Each municipality shall have one (1) representative, entitled to one vote each. The County shall have one (1) representative entitled to a total of five (5) votes. The elected officials or, in the case of the City of West Palm Beach, the Mayor may designate an alternate to serve in the elected official's or Mayor's absence. The alternate shall be an elected official to the Commission or Council. The officers of the Consortium shall include a chair which is the representative of the Board of County Commissioners of Palm Beach County. The vice chair shall be elected from among the mayors or elected officials of the four (4) participating cities by the membership of the Consortium for a term of one (1) year, consistent with the state fiscal year, but shall hold office until a successor is duly elected.
City Attorney Review:
Approved as to form and legal sufficiency.
Finance Department Review:
Finance recommends approval.
Funding Source:
No funding is necessary.
Timing of Request:
Not Applicable