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Common Measures: This waiver has streamlined, simplified, and improved the <br />evaluation of our training programs. <br />Use of Local Funds for Incumbent Worker Training Activities: This waiver will allow <br />us to better respond to our local economic changes by serving employers whose <br />employees require training. <br />9 <br />Customized Training: This waiver will help us better serve our small businesses <br />through a flexible sliding scale for employer match, thereby increasing small <br />business participation in WIA customized trainirngprograms. <br />Transfer of Adult and Dislocated Worker Rd rri-ul"unds: Our local area reserves <br />the right to exercise this waiver to provide us tN' ii?fioxibility we may need to <br />•::• <br />maximize services to adults or dislocpt0d workers in'l.sponse to our changing <br />economic climate and labor market:46rriands. Up to 5AVof:.funds between Adult <br />and Dislocated Worker funding stre'ams_may be considered'.";::::->., <br />o Increase in Employer Reimbursement fo>?;:Ori'.?tt e=Job Training.-`, his waiver will <br />help us encourage and".'?i3Xpo d the hin .'xof unemployed individuals with <br />employers by using a sliding::cale4or OJT rei"'bursement amounts as follows: <br />a. Up to 90% for etf' ployer4,.:.W h 50 or=fewer employees; <br />b. Up;to.75% for employers with 51. - 28'0? mployees; and <br />c. or empiyrs refth n`250 employees. <br />Activities: Our local. area eserves th6"i'dght to exercise this waiver to provide us <br />the ,f.(eXilSiliiy,;we may: tl:Ged' t0 ::f l ximi ':,services in response to our changing <br />. <br />e:cgnomic'clir ate and Gabor marke#::dernari'ds. . <br />12.Hovi,,dpps your Ioc'al?area administer Individual Training Accounts (ITA)? [WIA <br />Section:;:1.34(d)(4)(G)]`?4hclude'Oy limitations you impose on ITAs established <br />in your area.. If your lopl board is providing training services that are made <br />as exceptions; to the IT ;.'process, describe the process you used to procure <br />and justify #lie:e, exceptions. In addition, include your local board's policy <br />addressing the amount; and duration of ITAs based on market rate for local <br />training programs: [UIC Section 14206(h)] <br />ITAs are administered consistent with carefully crafted policy describing how ITAs <br />are to be used, the circumstances under which they are issued, and the methods for <br />contracting and paying for services under ITAs. Aside from reiterating the mandates <br />and legal requirements for the issuance of ITAs consistent with the WIA, the ITA <br />policy: <br />e establishes a payment cap of $7,000, which may be waived by the Workforce <br />Development Division Manager; <br />Page 8 of 18 <br />19C-11