To: Board of Supervisors
From: County Administrative Office
Agenda Section: Consent
SUBJECT:
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Second Amendment to the Services Agreement between the County of Humboldt and the Humboldt County Office of Education
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RECOMMENDATION(S):
Recommendation
That the Board of Supervisors:
1. Authorize the Chair of the Board, or Designee, to sign the Services Agreement Amendment as attached hereto in substantial form; and
2. Direct the Clerk of the Board to return an executed copy of the attached amendment to the Executive Director of the Humboldt County Workforce Development Board (HC-WDB).
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SOURCE OF FUNDING:
Department of Labor and the California Employment Development Department
DISCUSSION:
On Feb. 27, 2018, your Board entered into a contract agreement with the Humboldt County Office of Education to develop and implement the Humboldt Trades Academy to deliver curriculum, project-based learning, connection to employment and construction trades occupations through a mobile classroom to rotate between all high schools in Humboldt County.
The Humboldt Regional Trades Project has been initiated and is modeled after the successful Slingshot Healthcare Project, with industry at the center, driving strategies and outcomes. In the spring of 2017, the Northern Humboldt High School District announced that a very successful Career Technical Education program called Building Trades was being dissolved. The Building Trades program had provided high school students the opportunity to participate in building a house from the ground up, annually. The program had tremendous support from industry and local business across Humboldt and concern for the loss of this valued program was voiced at a subsequent school board meeting. In response, industry was invited to a roundtable discussion facilitated by an industry champion from O & M Industries and the HC-WDB Chair.
Key Priorities emerged from the discussion, leading to three working groups:
1) Rebran...
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