Fiscal Note
Adoption does not commit any additional funds already authorized in the 2007 operating budget. The source of these funds is City dollars.
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Authorizing the addition of Centro Hispano to a 2007 CDBG Office operating budget Building Trades Council-sponsored project as a fiscal agent to help promote pre-apprenticeship training for residents of the Allied neighborhood and other areas, and authorizing the Mayor and City Clerk to enter into a three-way agreement to implement the project.
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BACKGROUND:
The Common Council adopted a 2007 operating budget that provided $75,000 to the Building Trades Council to administer a pilot training program to recruit lower-income City residents and help them prepare to qualify for various building trade apprenticeship programs. The focus of this program is initially on the Allied area, with broader expansion to other areas. The program is patterned after a Milwaukee model that has gained support from various employers and trade unions to enable the Milwaukee program to expand and become self-supporting.
Under standard practices, the City, through the CDBG Office, would contract with the Building Trades Council to implement the project. The Building Trades Council indicated during negotiation of the contract that it would prefer to have the Centro Hispano organization serve as the fiscal agent for the project, and agreed to the development of a three-party contract detailing the various components and responsibilities for the program.
ACTIONS:
Whereas, the Madison CDBG Office has sometimes entered into three-party agreements involving a fiscal agent in order to initiate a pilot program, and that experience has been beneficial in effectively improving the chances of administrative success for those programs,
Whereas, the City of Madison CDBG staff have reviewed the proposal for a fiscal agent and three-party agreement, and conclude that it would be in the City's best interest to enter into such...
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