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EXHIBIT 1 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) Pursuant to the Workforce Innovation Opportunity Act of 2014 (WIOA) A. PARTIES The parties to this Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) are the Mayor and City Council of the City of Santa Ana, the Santa Ana Workforce Development Board (WDB), and Western Educational Corporation, dba Orange County Workforce Innovation High School (AJCC Partner). B. PURPOSE The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) requires that a MOU be developed and executed between the Local Board and the American's Job Center of California (AJCC) partners to establish an agreement concerning the operations of the AJCC delivery system. The purpose of the MOU, is to establish a cooperative working relationship between the parties and to define their respective roles and responsibilities in achieving the policy objectives. It serves to establish the framework for providing services to employers, employees, job seekers and others needing workforce services. California's one-stop delivery system, the AJCC, is a locally -driven system which develops partnerships and provides programs and services to achieve three main policy objectives established. by the California Workforce Development Strategic Plan, which includes the following: 1. Foster demand -driven skills attainment 2. Enable upward mobility for all Californians 3. Align, coordinate, and integrate programs and services These objectives will be accomplished by ensuring access to high-quality AJCC that provide the full range of services available in the community for all customers seeking the following: 1. Looking to find a job 2. Building basic educational or occupational skills 3. Earning a postsecondary certificate or degree 4. Obtaining guidance on how to make career choices 5. Seeking to identify and hire skilled workers C. LOCAUREGIONAL VISION STATEMENT, MISSION STATEMENT, AND GOALS Santa Ana's vision rests on integrating current and future resources through its WDB partners. Integration suggests more than partnering or assembling multiple finding sources, It means making certain that all elements of the workforce support system work together to create synergy for its target populations by offering inviting and seamless services, wherever a client enters the system. Santa Ana's vision also embraces the future, as all visions should. It spawns new industries and clusters and changes old ones. It generates fresh workforce opportunities in the process. The Santa Ana WDB's strategic plan rests not only on strengths of its current industrial base, but also the demands of emerging business and economic trends. Page 2 of 12