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<br />REGIONAL. PARTNERSHIP CONSORTIUM AGREEMENT <br />AMENDMENT <br />ARTICLE I -TITLE AND PURPOSE <br />The contiguous units of local government listed below agree to continue as a job training consortium to <br />act jointly as a Service Delivery Area, hereafter called the SDA, under the Workforce Investment Act <br />(hereafter called the WIA), Public Law 105-220, signed into law on August 7, 1998. This consortium <br />shall be known as the Regional Partnership Service Delivery Area. <br />ARTICLE II -MEMBERSHIP <br />The Consortium shall be composed of the following independent and contiguous units ofgeneral-purpose <br />local government: <br />County of Alamance <br />County of Orange <br />County of Randolph <br />ARTICLE III -CERTIFICATION OF AUTHORITY <br />1. AUTHORITY UNDER STATE AND LOCAL LAW <br />The member units of government certify that: <br />They possess full legal authority, as provided by state and local law, to enter into this agreement and <br />to fulfill the legal and financial requirements of operating as a SDA under the Workforce Investment <br />Act, North Carolina Employment and Training Grant and Welfare-to-Work for the entire geographic <br />area covered by this agreement. <br />3. DESIGNATION OF CHIEF ELECTED OFFICIALS FROM EACH MEMBER UNIT OF <br />GOVERNMENT <br />Each member unit of government designates as chief elected official for Workforce Investment Act <br />purposes, upon whose representations the state, the Workforce Development Board, the <br />administrative entity and the other member units may rely, the duly elected chairman of each <br />respective County Board of Commissioners. Such person shall be the signatory of the agreement and <br />shall be authorized to execute such other agreements as are necessary for Workforce Investment Act <br />purposes, North Carolina. and Training Grant (NCETG) purposes, and for purposes of the Welfare-to- <br />Work (WtW) Grant provisions at Title IV, Part A of the Social Security Act (P.L. 74-271), as <br />amended. <br />4. DESIGNATION OF CHIEF ELECTED OFFICIAL FOR SERVICE DELIVERY AREA <br />The member units provide that the chairman of the Randolph County Board of Commissioners shall <br />be authorized to exercise the functions of the SDA chief elected official which are required under the <br />WIA, the NCETG, and the WtW. <br />ARTICLE V -FINANCING <br />It is anticipated that funding necessary to implement this agreement will be derived from federal <br />grant funds received through the Governor. In the event that it is necessary to appropriate non- <br />federal funds for the purpose of repaying Huss-expenditures or other non-WIA, NCETG or WtW <br />expenditures that are not necessitated by repayment orders such as unallowable legal fees, <br />insurance or excessive administrative costs, repayment shall be made by the member county in <br />which the miss-expenditure occurred. ' <br />