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Award Youth Agreements Funded with Federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity <br />Act Fund to Three Providers. <br />July 6, 2021 <br />Page 2 <br />DISCUSSION <br />At the special meeting held on June 81" of the Workforce Development Board Youth <br />Council, by a vote of 5:0 and 2 abstained (Alegre, Sandoval, Varnum absent), the Youth <br />Council recommend the youth agreements with Orange County Children's Therapeutic <br />Arts Center, Orange County Conservation Corps and Charitable Ventures of Orange <br />County dba Project Kinship be renewed. <br />The Santa Ana Workforce Development Board (WDB) authorized the release of a <br />Request for Proposals (RFP) in November 2018 seeking organizations to provide <br />Workforce Innovation & Opportunity Act (WIOA) youth services and to establish a list of <br />qualified youth providers for a four-year procurement period of July 1, 2019 to June 30, <br />2023. The Youth Council reviewed and ranked the proposals from one to eight. This <br />ranking is valid for a four-year period and available to award WIOAfunded youth contracts <br />thru June 1. 2023. <br />On May 14, 2021, the state released Information Notice WSIN 20-62 with final WIOA <br />Formula Allocations for PY 2021-22. Santa Ana's youth allocation is $751,794 which is a <br />reduction of $76,326 from last year's allocation. Staff recommends contracting with the <br />top three RFP ranked proposal organizations as follows: <br />Organization <br />Services <br /># of Youth <br />Contract <br />Served <br />Amount <br />OC Children's <br />Serve Youth with disabilities & <br />Therapeutic Arts <br />foster youth; Exec. Admin <br />20 <br />$160,000 <br />Center <br />Cert; Childcare Worker Cert; <br />Paid WEX <br />Charitable Ventures of <br />Serve Probation Youth, <br />Orange County <br />Guard Card, Forklift Cert; Silk <br />20 <br />$160,000 <br />dba Project Kinship <br />Screening; Paid WEX <br />Serve Probation Youth, <br />OC Conservation Corps <br />Construction Training; Forklift <br />14 <br />$115,000 <br />Cert; Customer Service Cert, <br />Paid WEX <br />Total <br />54 <br />$435,000 <br />The Youth Providers recommended for funding are on track to meet or exceed all WIOA <br />Youth Performance Measures for the program year that has recently ended. In addition, <br />per federal regulations, Youth Providers are required to collectively enroll and spend 80% <br />of funds on Out -of -School Youth and 20% of funds on work experience activities under <br />WIOA regulations. <br />City Council 16 — 2 7/6/2021 <br />