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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 of general-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 /> 1. 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 miss-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 />