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• Establishes and maintains the Local workforce delivery system at a level that meets the needs of the job seekers and businesses in the Local area; • Reduces duplication and maximizes program impact through the sharing of services, resources, and technologies among Partners (thereby improving each program's effectiveness); • Reduces overhead costs for any one partner by streamlining and sharing financial, procurement, and facility costs; and • Ensures that costs are appropriately shared by AJCC Partners by determining contributions based on the proportionate use of the one-stop centers and relative benefits received, and requiring that all funds are spent solely for allowable purposes in a manner consistent with the applicable authorizing statutes and all other applicable legal requirements, including the Uniform Guidance. The Partners consider this one-stop operating budget the master budget that is necessary to maintain the Local Board's high -standard AJCC network. It includes the following cost categories, as required by WIOA and its implementing regulations: • Infrastructure costs (also separately outlined in the Infrastructure Funding Agreement (IFA)); • Career services; and • Shared services. All costs must be included in the MOU, allocated according to Partners' proportionate use and relative benefits received, and reconciled on a quarterly basis against actual costs incurred and adjusted accordingly. The one-stop operating budget is expected to be transparent and negotiated among Partners on an equitable basis to ensure costs are shared appropriately. All Partners must negotiate in good faith and seek to establish outcomes that are reasonable and fair. COST ALLOCATION METHODOLOGY Cost allocation is the process of assigning to two or more programs the costs of an item shared by the -programs. -The goal -is -to ensure -that -each -program -bears -its fair -share; -and -only -its --fair share, of the total cost of the item. A cost allocation plan is a written account of the methods used to allocate costs to the programs occupying the AJCCs. The requirement to allocate the costs of shared resources can be met by using logical and rational methods to ensure that each program is paying only its fair share of the cost of an item used in common, and that no program is subsidizing another. Generally, the methods used to allocate a shared cost should be the simplest, most straightforward way of allocating this type of cost fairly. Complex, highly detailed methods should be avoided when a simple one will achieve the objective. Methods, rules or formulas that use percentages or fractions of cost items are acceptable. Accordingly, shared costs will be based upon the square footage occupied in each AJCC. The Local Boards and Partners have chosen to submit a separate budget for each comprehensive AJCC for developing the infrastructure cost budget. 16