Recommendation to adopt Specifications for Request for Proposals No. HR15-088 and award contracts to Centro Community Hispanic Association, Inc., of Long Beach, CA; KRA Corporation, of Fulton, MD; Long Beach Unified School District, of Long Beach, CA; and United Cambodian Community, of Long Beach, CA, to provide qualified services to operate Pacific Gateway Workforce Investment Act Youth Academy Projects, in an aggregate annual amount not to exceed $1,700,000, for a period of one year, with the option to renew for two additional one-year periods at the discretion of the City Manager; and authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all documents necessary to enter into the contracts, including any necessary amendments thereto. (Citywide)
Report from Human Resources and Financial Management. Recommendation two Award for contracts to provide qualified services to operate Pacific Gateway Workforce Investment Act Youth Academy projects in an aggregate annual amount not to exceed $1.7 million citywide. Mr. City Manager. Vice Council Members This is Nick Schulz, the manager of our Workforce Investment Board. So, Madam Vice Mayor, members of the Council, this item is to award four contracts for qualified service providers to operate our year round Federal Youth Workforce Investment Act programs and Academy projects. Again, the aggregate amounts not to exceed $1.7 million. It's for a period of one year with an option to renew for additional two years based on qualified performance and financial management. Thank you. Councilman Andrews or Councilwoman Gonzalez, would you like to address your motion? Thank you. Councilmember Urunga. Thank you, Mayor. I'm very glad to see that this coming forward. I think that the more we help our youth and help them with their leadership development, the better we all are, and especially when it comes to the future leadership of our city. But do you have any kind of data or any kind of information that would that you can share with me in terms of activities in the seventh District? Specific to the 77th District? No, we did. We haven't segregated that at this point in time. Last year, the Pacific Gateway combined youth programing, a combination of state and federal money, served about 796 participants. I will get you the data per zip code and segregate that by districts. I appreciate that very much because I do have a high school in my district that I think would be a very that would benefit greatly from this type of program. So I'm looking forward to that information. Thank you. Councilwoman Mango with regard to the performance measures that the nonprofits who receive this funding are measured against, do we have the number of applicants versus the number of jobs and then the number of hours per candidate completed during the program? And if not, could we require that the contractors report out on that this year? Are we using the statewide system for this or the. We have a local yes. For these particular awards. It is the statewide system because it is this is 100% federal money that you're approving tonight. So all of the contractors who who are on the list with to be rewarded or who have qualified under the new RFP process met or exceeded all performance measures. We do have some contractors who have not operated in the system before. And do we have a dashboard or crystal reports that draw down from the state system that show those specific criteria? As mentioned, the hours per candidate, the number of candidates accepted all of that. So so what we have is we can show you, again, educational attainment from beginning of program to end program. We can show you any attainment, retention and wage advancement in employment, and we can show you continued into secondary or post-secondary education. The military or other things in the federal program will be considered positive exit. So having worked in this program, one of the things that I will say is that in the state of California, because our minimum wage is different than that of the federal minimum wage in this particular category, the state of California does not have an apportionment greater than those hours awarded to other states. And so our youth are actually getting less work experience than youth in other communities across the country. And so that's one of the the things that I look forward to discussing in terms of exemptions, because these entry level jobs that give people their first job opportunity are really pivotal. And reducing the number of hours in a summer is detrimental. And it was even more detrimental is to reduce the number of youth who get to participate. So I'm very supportive this program, and I look forward to the information that is drawn from the state system to be included in our open data platform. So everyone in the community can know how successful our contractors are and that they can compete against one another to have the best stats, to have the best educational performance for their youth that are involved in the program and the highest yield of employment. Thank you. Councilman Austin. Yes. Thank you. And I'm excited about about this the opportunity here. I think there's a lot of good work that will be performed by a lot of reputable community organizations. I see four were selected. I I'm obviously aware of three Central CHA, Long Beach Unified and UCC Cray Corporation out of Maryland. Can you give us some background on what they provide and what their nexus is here to Long Beach? Sure. And I'd start by saying we had five applicants for four award. Again, the the three local that you mentioned and one out-of-state applicant. I will tell you that we funded all of our local applicants to the capacity that they requested through the RFP process. CRA was funded at about or is recommended to be funded at about half what they requested. They're a national organization based out of Fulton, Maryland. They are a for profit corporation difference. And some of the nonprofits that we have here locally and we're funding. They have been in business since the 1980s. They operate many programs across the United States. Closest geographic program to us in California would be San Diego, where they've been successful over a period of years. And also in Alameda County in California. Other questions with regard to Kerry? Well, the next is here to Long Beach. I mean, do they have an office? And how will participants in these these job training programs? So they are. Excuse me. I'm sorry to interrupt you, but they are in the process of negotiating for space here in Long Beach. Some of the partners in their application that signed letters of support and will receive receive subcontracts from Kerry to provide services are the Long Beach Unified School District. Our YMCA has Long Beach Community Action Partnership, the Boys and Girls Club, the Long Beach Community College, the Job Corps. So so they worked very hard on the ground to put together meaningful partnerships, do to help them engage and understand the Long Beach community. Thank you for clarifying. I appreciate it. There's been a motion and a second. Is there any member of the public that wishes to address Council on item 19 saying none? Members cast your. Vote. Motion carries nine zero. Kate. Item 20 Report from Police Recommendation to receive and file the application of Moon for an original application of an ABC license at 149 Linden Avenue, Suite C District two.