HomeMy WebLinkAboutRESOLUTIONS - 01011967 - 1967-025 SIS THE BOARD OF SiU PEIR IS RS
OF
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, STATE OF CALIFORNIA
In the Matter of the i
Job Upgrading Project �
of neighborhood House j RESOLUTION NUMBER 67/25
of North Richmond, }
WHEREAS the Board of Supervisors of the County of
Contra Costa., California, has been apprised that the Job Upgrading
Project of NNeighborhood Rouse of North Richmond, which has been
financed by the U. S. Department of Labor, may not be continued
with federal financial support beyond Jung 300 1967, I and.
WHEREAS said project was initiated in 1960' with private
foundation funds, was accepted as a demonstration project by the
U. S. department of Labor in 1964* and was expanded and continued
in 1966 with the aid of the U. S. Department of Labor; and
WHEREAS the results obtained through the operation of
the project have been significantly beneficial as shown by
statistics on the training and employment of hundreds of project
participants from. Forth Richmond, the Iron Triangle, and the
City of San Pablo; and
WHEREAS the California State Department of Employment
has indicated a willingness to make modifications in. ' its program
so as to utilize methods which. the Neighborhood House of Barth
Richmond has demonstrated to be desirable and successful in
connection with providing jobs for persons with records of long
term unemployment; and
WHEREAS this Board of Supervisors is cognizant of the
effective work done by the Neighborhood Rouse of Forth Richmond
such as in connection with the prevention of delinquency for
which the beard provides $14,400 annually to said agency.-
NOW,
gency;IS I, THEREFORE, BE IT Y THE BOARD RESOLVED that it
urges the . S. Department of Labor to give favorable consideration
to the approval of a renewable application on the Job Upgrading
Project of the Neighborhood Rouse of North Richmond so that this
agency may continue with its effective work in providing training
and employment for underprivileged people from low income areas; and
BE 1T BY THE BOARD :FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this
resolution are to be transmitted, to The Honorable W. Willard Wirtz,
U. S . Secretary of Labor, The Honorable Thomas H. Kuchel and
The Honorable George Murphy, United States Senators, State of
California , and to The Honorable Jerome R. Waldie, Congressman,
14th Congressional District, urging them to support the extremely
desirable efforts and accomplishments of the Neighborhood Rouse of
North Richmond,
RESCL-LJT ON NUn R 67/2,
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 10th clay of January, 1967,, by
the following vote of the Board:
:E° . Supervisors James P. Kenny, Alfred. Ise Vias,
James E. Moriarty$ Thomas Jon Coll,
Edmund. A. Ltinscheid.
NOES.* None,
ABSENT:: one.
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