REPORT TO COUNCIL
SUBJECT
Title
Renew Joint Exercise of Powers Agreement: Workforce Development Services for NOVA Consortium to Include San Mateo County
Report
BACKGROUND
The North Valley (NOVA) Job Training Consortium was formed in 1983 with the passage of the federal Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA). Over the years, the NOVA consortium has evolved from a six-city consortium comprised of the cities of Cupertino, Los Altos, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Santa Clara, and Sunnyvale to a seven-city consortium when the Council approved the city of Milpitas' request to join the consortium in 2000, as part of the transition from JTPA to the Workforce Investment Act (WIA). For more than thirty years, the Council has served as the Chief Local Elected Official (CLEO) for the NOVA consortium and represents the seven cities through a Joint Exercise of Powers Agreement (JPA).
In 2014, Congress passed the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) that replaces WIA as the new governing legislation for the local workforce investment system. This new law takes effect July 1, 2015. With the transition from WIA to WIOA, the governance agreements for the NOVA consortium will need to be renewed. At the February 10, 2015 Council meeting, Council took the following actions in anticipation of the transition from WIA to WIOA:
? Agreed to remain the CLEO on behalf of the NOVA consortium, with the City assuming financial liability for the program and functioning as the administrative entity for NOVA's services;
? Reaffirmed the NOVA Workforce Board as the governing board for NOVA and approve the revised Agreement on the Roles and Responsibilities Between the NOVA Workforce Board and the Sunnyvale City Council
EXISTING POLICY
Council Policy Manual 5.1.1: Socio-Economic - Goals and Policies: Education and Training Goal 5.1F: Provide job training and employment services, within constraints of operative Federal regulations and available Federal funding, to ...
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