Fiscal Note
There is no net impact on the City levy. The resolution reallocates funds from Miscellaneous Appropriations -- Improvement Initiatives, Human Resources - Citywide Travel and Training and the Mayor’s Office - Purchased Services to the Community Development Division (CDD) to provide support to the United Way HIRE Initiative. The 2014 operating budget will be amended as follows:
($9,000) GN01-54275-971000 Miscellaneous Appropriations - Improvement Initiatives (decrease funding)
($8,000) GN01-54640-385000 Human Resources - Citywide Training and Travel (decrease funding)
($5,000) GN01-54901-080000 Mayor’s Office - Other Services General (decrease funding)
($3,000) GN01-54202-080000 Mayor’s Office - Telephone Regular (decrease funding)
$25,000 GN01-54920-274000 CDD Community Agency Contracts (increase funding)
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Amending the City’s 2014 Adopted Operating Budget to re-appropriate $25,000 from Various Appropriations to the Community Development Division for the United Way HIRE Initiative.
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BACKGROUND
The 2014 adopted operating budget includes $25,000 under Miscellaneous Appropriations for Improvement Initiatives. Based on anticipated expenditures for 2014, $9,000 of this amount remains available in 2014. The Human Resources budget includes $8,000 for city-wide travel and training which remains available. The Mayor’s Office budget is expected to have $8,000 available in purchased services.
Over the next three years, the United Way HIRE Initiative is an effort to reduce poverty through the following strategies:
1. Create a coalition of employers committed to hiring 240 people with varying skills and experience, with focused outreach to engage men and women of color. Ideally, these jobs will have paid on-the-job training.
2. Expand openings in employment partner agencies’ job training programs for industries with current job growth, notably construction, commercial driving, food service and customer service.
3. Add employment co...
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