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Agenda Item: <br /> Meeting Date: April 19, 2011 <br /> MEMORANDUM TO BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS: <br /> FROM: Linda B. Parker, Workforce Development Director <br /> DATE: April 6, 2011 <br /> SUBJECT: Regional Partnership Workforce Development Area <br /> REQUEST: <br /> Pursuant to the Workforce Investment Act of 1995, Public Law 105-220, this is a request by the <br /> Regional Partnership Workforce Development Area for Montgomery and Moore Counties to <br /> form a consortium with Alamance, Orange, and Randolph Counties, that designation of such <br /> consortium as a Local Area for job training purposes shall be accepted, that such consortium <br /> shall be known as the Regional Partnership Workforce Development Area. <br /> BACKGROUND: <br /> The Regional Partnership Workforce Development Area is requesting the Board's approval of <br /> the documents attached hereto in order to enable Montgomery and Moore Counties to merge <br /> with the exiting Regional Partnership Workforce Development Board (WDB) as a result of <br /> Richmond County pulling out of the Pee Dee Region WDB and joining another WDB, leaving <br /> Montgomery and Moore Counties alone which together do not have sufficient funding and <br /> population to support a separate Workforce Development Area. <br /> IMPLEMENTATION PLAN: <br /> None <br /> FINANCIAL IMPACT STATEMENT: <br /> None <br /> RECOMMENDATION SUMMARY: <br /> Make a motion to enter into the attached Regional Partnership Consortium Agreement and the <br /> State and Local Area Memorandum of Agreement and authorize the Chairman to execute both <br /> agreements including the Resolution Designating the Regional Partnership Workforce <br /> Developm en t Area to encom pass Mon tgomery an d Moore Coun ties. <br /> SUPPORTING ATTACHMENTS: <br /> Regional Partnership Consortium Agreement <br /> Resolution <br /> State and Local Area Memorandum Agreement <br />