HomeMy WebLinkAboutMINUTES - 03032009 - C.39RECOMMENDATION(S):
APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Employment and Human Services Director, or designee, on behalf of the
Workforce Development Board of Contra Costa, to apply for and accept Alameda County Workforce Investment
Board, Life Sciences Expansion Project Grant funding in an amount not to exceed $75,000 for bioscience training to
Contra Costa County residents from July 1, 2008 through June 30, 2009.
FISCAL IMPACT:
$75,000 from Alameda County Workforce Investment Board, Life Sciences Expansion Project Grant.
No County match.
BACKGROUND:
The Life Sciences Expansion Project Grant will expand highly successful bioscience training to Contra Costa County
residents and increase capacity for ongoing bioscience training at community colleges. The program will build on
work started 6 years ago in San Mateo County in partnerships with Genentech and Skyline College which later
expanded to Ohlone College and additional biotech
APPROVE OTHER
RECOMMENDATION OF CNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD
COMMITTEE
Action of Board On: 03/03/2009 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED OTHER
Clerks Notes:
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
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ABSENT ____ ABSTAIN ____
RECUSE ____
Contact: Bob Lanter 6-5382
I hereby certify that this is a true and correct copy of an action taken and entered on the minutes of
the Board of Supervisors on the date shown.
ATTESTED: March 3, 2009
David J. Twa, County Administrator and Clerk of the Board of Supervisors
By: Celicia Nelson , Deputy
cc:
C.39
To:Board of Supervisors
From:Joe Valentine, Employment & Human Services Director
Date:March 3, 2009
Contra
Costa
County
Subject:Life Sciences Expansion Project Grant
BACKGROUND: (CONT'D)
firms.
The grant will fund the referral and targeted recruitment of up to 60 individuals who are interested in pursuing jobs as
process technicians in the biotechnology industry. Specifically it will fund up to 20 training slots for dislocated
workers to attend training at the community college level. All course work will be fast tracked and will be
approximately 13 weeks in duration and will include visits to biotech firms. Targeted individuals will include, but not
be limited to those presently laid off dislocated workers from the mortgage industry who express an interest and
aptitude for retraining in the bioscience field. Substantial changes in program costs necessitated Alameda County, the
fiscal intermediary, to renegotiate the program funding. This delayed implementation of program agreements.
(29-264-1)
CHILDREN'S IMPACT STATEMENT:
The grant funding will support two of the five community outcomes established in the Children’s Report Card,
3) “Families that are Economically Self Sufficient” and 4) “Families that are Safe, Stable and Nurturing” by
upgrading job skills and providing opportunity for employment advancement to move toward self sufficiency.