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Consider recommendations regarding a Comprehensive and Accessible Reemployment through Equitable Employment Recovery Project; as follows: (4/5 Vote Required)
a) Approve, ratify and authorize the Department of Social Services Director, or designee, to accept the Comprehensive and Accessible Reemployment through Equitable Employment Recovery National Dislocated Worker Grant in the amount of $2,500,000.00 for the period of September 24, 2021 through September 23, 2023;
b) Approve Budget Revision Request No. 0007963 to increase appropriations by $1,059,375.00 for Fiscal Year 2021-2022, $1,152,500.00 for Fiscal Year 2022-2023, and $288,125.00 for Fiscal Year 2023-2024 in the Department of Social Services Fund 0058;
c) Adopt a Salary Resolution, which allocates one additional full-time (1.0 FTE) Department Business Specialist position to the Department of Social Services’ authorized position allocations effective December 13, 2021; and
d) Determine that the activity is not a “Project” subject to California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) review per CEQA Guideline Section 15378(b)(4), the creation of government funding mechanisms or other government fiscal activities which do not involve any commitment to any specific project which may result in a potentially significant physical impact on the environment; and per CEQA Guideline Section 15378(b)(5), since the activity is an organizational or administrative activity of government that will not result in direct or indirect physical changes in the environment.