Recommendation:
Adopt an annual resolution authorizing the City Manager or her
designee to negotiate and execute the following agreements relating to
the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act Program and projects:
(a) All contracts, amendments, agreements, leases, subleases, and
memorandums of understanding with contractors, consultants, vendors,
and partners providing services to the Workforce Innovation and
Opportunity Act Program and workforce programs funded by other
sources, including, but not limited to, novations or assignments, case
management contracts, and consultant contracts, for the period July 1,
2026, to June 30, 2027, in accordance with procurement procedures
and requirements mandated by the State and Federal governments for
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act grant recipients and with
established City procurement procedures and requirements, that have
been reviewed and approved, as required, by the work2future
Workforce Development Board, so long as monies have been
appropriated and there is an unexpended and unencumbered balance of
such appropriation sufficient to pay the expenses of the agreement.
(b) All memorandums of understanding with Required and Additional
One-Stop Partners for the period July 1, 2026, to June 30, 2030, in
accordance with Section 121 of the Workforce Innovation and
Opportunity Act, including, but not limited to, memorandums of
understanding with other workforce development boards, regional
memorandums of understanding, partnership agreements, cost-sharing
agreements, regional consultant agreements, and memorandums of
understanding with cities and the unincorporated area of Santa Clara
County whose residents receive services from the work2future One
Stops, a partner of the America’s Job Center of CaliforniaSM, so long
as monies have been appropriated and there is an unexpended and
unencumbered balance of such appropriation sufficient to pay the
expenses, if any, of the agreement.
(c) All amendments to City Council-approved agreements that have
been reviewed and approved, as required, by the work2future Board, so
long as monies have been appropriated and there is an unexpended and
unencumbered balance of such appropriation sufficient to pay the
expenses of the agreement.
(d) All grant applications, grant agreements, subgrant agreements, and
any documents necessary to accept the grant for discretionary funding
applied for and approved by the work2future Board, for multi-year
periods, so long as monies have been appropriated and there is an
unexpended and unencumbered balance of such appropriation sufficient
to pay the expenses of the agreement.
(e) All Eligible Training Provider List, Youth Career Technical Training,
Youth Workshops, Adult Workshops, and Adult Cohort agreements,
and multiple-scope agreements that combine two or more of the above