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"THIS CONTRACT, made and entered into this the 19th day of April, 197LF, by and between COUNTY OF DURHAM (hereinafter referred to as DURHAM CO'JN'SY), COUNTY OF ORANGE (Hereinafter referred to as. ORANGE COUNTY), and CITY OF DffRHAM, a municipal corporation (hereinafter referred to as CITY) ; W T T N E S SET H• WHEREAS, the United States Congress has enacted the Comprehensive %trsployment and Training Aet of 1973 and has stated that the purpose of said Act is to provide job training and employment opportunities for economically disadvantaged, unemployed, and under-employed persons, and to insure that training and other services lead to maximum employment opportunities and enhanced self-sufficiency by establishing a flexible and decentralized system of Federal, State and Local programs; and WH~EAS, under the provisions of said Comprehensive ~nployment and Training Act of 1973, the Secretary of Tabor is authorized to make financial assistance available to prime sponsors as defined in such Act for the purposes of carrying out all or a substantial part of a Comprehensive Manpower Program; and WHEREAS, b~~** directive of the Searetary of Labor, on the 18th day of Sanuary, 1971;, DURHAM COUNTY has been designated as Jurisdiction containing one hundred thousand or more population for purposes of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973; and ti•1FiE'REAS, the Department of Labor has through its regulations, encouraged the combination of units of local government in multi- jurisdictional agreements for the purpose of forming Consortia to carry out Comprehensive Manpower Services on a multi»'j.urisdictional basis; and `~~: WHEREAS, it has been found by the the Eoards of~County Commissioners of DURHAM COUNTY and ORANGE COUNTY and by the City Council of the CITY OF DURHAM that the area consisting of Durham County and Orange County, said area containing a population of 190,388, consists of a labor market area broader than the single Jurisdiction of any party to this Agreement and that such labor market area aonaists primarily of the City of Durham and the surrounding Counties of Durham and Drange and that such Counties constitute an economically intergrated geographical unit within which i workers may readily change jobs without changing their place of residence, and that it is the finding of the Governing Eddies of the parties to this Agreement that the Counties of Durham and Orange and the City of Durham should unite to form a Consortium for the purpose of planning and operating a Comprehensive Manpower Program in the multi-Jurisdictional area herein defined; and WHE'iEAS, the Tovras of Hillsborough, Chapel Hi11 and Carrboro are municipal corporations located in Drange County, which said Towns, though not parties to this Consortium, shall derive benefit from the Comprehensive Manpower Program herein provided by virtue of said Orange County's participation herein; and WHEREAS, it is the intent and purpose of the parties to this Agreement that a multi-Jurisdictional Comprehensive Manpower Program be established and that the Consortium hereby created be designated as prime sponsor for the purpose of receiving monies, implementing such multi-jurisdictior_al Manpower Program, and otherwise complying with the provisions of the Comprehensive F~rcployment and Training Act of 1973 and applicable Federal regulations incident thereto; and WH"RFAS, pursuant to Article 23 of Chapter 1S3A and Artioles 3, 20 and 2l of Chapter 160A of the North Carolina General Statutes, the parties to this Agreement are fully authorized to contract with each other and with the Federal Government for the purpose of carrying out a multi-Jurisdictional Comprehensive Manpower Program, such authority having been certified by the chief legal offiaera of the parties hereto by letters attached to this document and made a part hereof. NOW, TREREFORE, far and in consideration of the mutual obligations, benefits and detriments incurred by each party to this Contract, and pursuant further to the provisions of Article 20 of Chapter 160A of the North Carolina General Statutes, it ie hereby agreed by and between the parties hereto as follows: 1. Purpose. It is the purpose of this Contrast to establish a Consortium of the parties hereto to plan and operate a Comprehensive Manpower Program in the area constituted by the COUNTIES OF DURHAM AND ORANGE and, for the purposes of carrying out such Program, to contract with the United States Department of Labor and institute the various Comprehensive Manpower Services available to DURHAM COUNTY, ORANGE COUNTY and the CITX under the provisions of the Comprehensive r"lnployment and Training Act of 1973.