REPORT TO COUNCIL
SUBJECT
Title
Approve Bay-Peninsula Regional Strategic Workforce Development Plan
Report
BACKGROUND
The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) requires local workforce development boards in a planning region to engage in a regional planning process resulting in the preparation and submission of a single regional plan that describes workforce development activities and service strategies and that incorporates local plans for each of the local areas within the planning region. The Bay-Peninsula Regional Planning Unit (RPU) includes the workforce boards located in the counties of Santa Clara, San Mateo, San Benito, and San Francisco.
The State Plan is the controlling state policy document on workforce development. It sets the State's policy direction for the local and regional plans and serves as a conceptual map for local boards and their partners as they jointly develop these plans. The Local Plan, because individuals experience the workforce system through local programs, facilitates local program access within a regional architecture or framework. The Regional Plan is the regional architecture or framework. It aligns local programs with regional labor markets and industry sectors that are driving regional employment.
The State issued guidance for preparation of the regional and local plans with a specific framework and guidelines for required content. NOVA's local plan, which was approved by Council on February 28, 2017, was submitted to the State concurrent with the regional plan. The local and regional plans were approved by the California Workforce Development Board at its meeting of August 11, 2017. Now that the regional plans have been finalized, the State requires each local area in a region to submit evidence of approval of the regional plan by its Chief Elected Official. The Sunnyvale City Council serves in this capacity for NOVA and is therefore requested to approve the Bay-Peninsula RPU Regional Plan.
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