Title
Resolution Authorizing Lease Agreement for NCWorks Career Center Relocation and Merger
Body
Department:
Executive/Office of Workforce Development
Council District:
Public Hearing:
Advertising Date/By:
Contact 1 and Phone:
Steve Jones 373-3001
Contact 2 and Phone:
PURPOSE:
City Council approval is requested to enter into a lease agreement with SN Properties Funding V-Henderson, LLC for a 34,109 square foot property at 2301 W. Meadowview Road in the annual amount of $341,090 for a term of ten years with an option to terminate after five years. The proposed property would house the new Greensboro NCWorks Career Center.
BACKGROUND:
The Greensboro/High Point/Guilford County Workforce Development Board (WDB) has statutory responsibility for oversight of publicly funded workforce delivery systems for all locations in Guilford County. There are currently four workforce services locations in Greensboro funded through a combination of two specific US Department of Labor (USDOL) funds: the Workforce Investment Act (WIA), which is administered by the City of Greensboro, and the Wagner-Peyser Act (administered by the state). For the last several years, federal legislation, USDOL policy, and the NCWorks Commission have consistently emphasized co-location of these primary workforce programs into single one-stop centers to reduce confusion to the public and maximize resources. This was implemented in the High Point NCWorks Center in 2011 and services remain integrated at that location today.
Sections 121 and 303 of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), that replaces the Workforce Investment Act on July 1, 2015, require that state employment service offices be co-located with one-stop centers. Neither the existing NCWorks Career Center at 303 N. Raleigh Street (formerly the JobLink Career Center) nor the NCWorks Career Center at 2005 S. Elm-Eugene Street (formerly the Employment Security Commission) has suffic...
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