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FROM: Arthur C. Miner, Executive Director Co jy�y}1l�
Contra Costa County Private Industry Council Costa
DATE: August 1, 1990 a " "7
sueJECT: Proclaim the Week of August 27 through September 3, 1990 as "National JTPA
Alumni Week" in Contra Costa County
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOWEPDATION(S) a BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
I. Recommended Action:
Proclaim August 27, 1990 through September 3, 1990 as National JTPA
Alumni Week saluting Contra Costa's job training successes. The Job
Training Partnership Act is a federal program to train and employ
youths, unskilled adults, displaced homemakers, displaced workers,
poor people and others who find they face serious barriers to
employment. The Private Industry Council in Partnership with the
County Board of Supervisors provides JTPA employment and training
services in the Contra Costa County Service Delivery Area. The
purpose of alumni week is to give Contra Costans the opportunity to
hear what JTPA has meant to the people who have been served by it.
Over the past two and a half years, the Contra Costa County JTPA
program .has assisted over 3000 Contra Costans in gaining the
necessary skills to find and keep jobs. Overall four million
Americans have been assisted in obtaining the necessary job skills
needed to find and retain employment through the Job Training
Partnership Act of 1982 (DTPA) .
II. Financial Impact:
None.
III. Reasons For Recommendation/Background:
The Board of Supervisors having established the Private Industry
Council under the Job Training Partnership Act of 1982, on June 28,
1983, and having joint powers of authority as grant recipient and
grant administrator, implemented the operation of the Job Training
Partnership Act (DTPA) effective October 1, 1983.
It is therefore recommended the Board continue to endorse and
promote the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) Programs which
prepare youths and unskilled adults enter the labor force; affords
job training to those economically disadvantaged individuals and
other individuals facing serious barriers to employment, who are in
special need of such training to obtain employment and gain/re-gain
self-esteem as productive citizens.
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: YES SIGNATURE: �C'7
RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
APPROVE OTHER
SIGNATURE(S1:
ACTION OF BOARD ON Aucrust 14, 1990 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED X OTHER
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
1 NEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE
X UNANIMOUS (ABSENT AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN
AYES: NOES: AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD
ABSENT: ABSTAIN: OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
CC: Congressman George Miller ATTESTED August 14, 1990
Congressman Ron Dellums PHIL BATCHELOR. CLERK OF THE BOARD OF
Congressman Pete .Stark SUPE RVI ORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
Private Industry Council ;
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