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_ ORANGE COUNTY 0 BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS Action Agenda ACTION AGENDA =4 ABSTRACT Item No. (!=41 MEETING DATE June 6, 1983 __ Subject: Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) Department: Count Manager I Public Hearing: yes ' ncl —— Attachment s : Information Contact: Yes Orange Manager's Office Phone Number: 7 PURPOSE: To consider a direction whereby Orange County citizens would continue to recei employment and training services. NEED: PursuantIto Federal law signed October 13, 1982, the JTPA will replace CETA (Comprehensive Employment and Training Act) September 30, 1983. Purpose will remain the same under- the new Act and program to implement the Act; continued focus will be on providing employment and training opportunities for economi- cally dqadvantaged and unemployed persons. The difference comes in how the program is to be overseen and administered (detailed comparison of the two act is attached) . Policy for the program will be set by a Private Industry Counci (PIC) appointed by the local chief elected official(s) in each service deliver area. Once appointed the PIC and the chief elected official(s) will then join develop a local training plan that will determine the grant recipient program administrator and the mix of services and participants to be served. Orange County is faced with deciding between two alternatives for administrati Alternative 1 is to continue much the same as at present. The County would decfde to becone part of what is termed the "rural service delivery area" (RSC All small counties fit into this category unless they elect to pool their effo with other counties. Planning and coordination of programs would be through t Triangle J Council of Governments (one of 18 in the State) while the State wol, be the administrative entity (writing contracts and monitoring and auditing pr grams) aid the County would be the program operator. Alternative 2 is to join a multi-county and city consortium. The service delivery, area—cgDA) in this case would encompass 200,000 or more population ar include either Alamance or Durham. Planning and coordination would be accom- plished ,through a private industry council drawn from members of the consortit The PIC and chief elected official(s) would select a program administrator whi would also function as operator for all of the consortium members. IMPACT: The fac that less funding will be available Under the new Act gives some insi as to the alternative to select. Early estimate is that Orange,.because of ii low unemployment rate and the lesser allocation for the State, would receive of the $1242,785 1982-83 Title II-B funds. With future administrative funds limited to 15 percent it will be difficult to operate under Alternative 1 . Th Orange County program is already operating on a marginal basis as a result of Past staff cut-backs. Consorting with others would permit pooling of effort i