WHEREAS, training programs are conducted by training providers who are approved by
the State of Illinois (ATTACHMENT I); and
WHEREAS, the County of DuPage published a Request For Proposal (RFP) and
approved youth job training contracts in accordance with grant guidelines and County policy
(ATTACHMENT II); and
WHEREAS, the Economic Development Committee recommends County Board
approval for the issuance of payments to the approved training providers and youth job training
contracts for the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Grant PY25,
Inter-Governmental Agreement No. 25-681006, for the period July 1, 2025 through June 30,
2027, in amounts not to exceed the total training budget.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that individual payments to provide training
assistance in accordance with the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Grant
PY25, Inter-Governmental Agreement No. 25-681006, Company 5000 - Accounting Unit 2840,
for the period July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2027, for Economic Development, be and it is
hereby approved for issuance to the approved training providers and youth job training contracts,
in amounts not to exceed $3,425,380 (THREE MILLION FOUR HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE
THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED EIGHTY AND NO/100 DOLLARS).
APPROVED
Paula Garcia
Yeena Yoo
RESULT:
MOVER:
SECONDER:
AYES:
Childress, Covert, Cronin Cahill, DeSart, Eckhoff, Evans, Galassi,
Garcia, Haider, Honig, LaPlante, Martinez, Ozog, Schwarze,
Tornatore, Yoo, and Zay
Krajewski
ABSENT:
10.G.
Acceptance and appropriation of additional funding for the Illinois Department of
Commerce and Economic Opportunity Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act
(WIOA) Grant PY25, Inter-Governmental Agreement 25-681006, Company 5000 -
Accounting Unit 2840, in the amount of $150,000. (Workforce Development Division)
WHEREAS, the County of DuPage heretofore accepted and appropriated the
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Grant PY25, Company 5000 -
Accounting Unit 2840, pursuant to Resolution FI-R-0141-25 for the period July 1, 2025
through June 30, 2027; and
WHEREAS, the County of DuPage, for the use and benefit of the DuPage County
Workforce Development Division, leases premises for the workNet DuPage Career
Center (“Center”) and incurs rent and other office rental expenses that are paid using
WIOA Grant funding; and
WHEREAS, the County of DuPage, through the DuPage County Workforce
Development Division, has a Memorandum of Understanding with several of its strategic
partners to provide office space in its leased premises in exchange for contributions
towards the Center’s rent and other office rental expenses; and