Number
140889
Version
SUBSTITUTE 2
Reference
Sponsor
ALD. HAMILTON, MURPHY, WADE, BAUMAN, KOVAC, WITKOWSKI, STAMPER, PUENTE AND BOHL
Title
Substitute resolution relating to creation of the Compete Milwaukee plan.
Analysis
This resolution expresses support for the Compete Milwaukee plan, a partnership of Mayor Barrett, the Common Council, workforce development agencies and private employers to make strategic workforce development investments that will address the problem of underemployment among Milwaukee residents. The $2 million Compete Milwaukee plan will consist of the following components:
1. Jobs Scan - Industry Assessment & Program Evaluation SPA. The $75,000 in this new SPA will be used to create a model that delivers real-time labor market data to the City and workforce development agencies, which will use the data to understand and connect the needs of employers and employees and effectively allocate resources to make those connections. Industries targeted will be those that have both the greatest number of jobs and the strongest demand for new employees over the next decade: health care, manufacturing, retail/hospitality, financial services and construction. The City may also use this SPA to fund a third-party evaluation of the Community Work Partnership-Transitional Jobs component of Compete Milwaukee. The City will enter into a MOU with the Milwaukee Area Workforce Investment Board ("MAWIB") to provide related services.
2. Industry Advisory Board. Mayor Barrett and MAWIB will convene an Industry Advisory Board that will help the City and private employers use the Jobs Scan data to understand and connect job projections "on paper" with worker characteristics that the City and employers need.
3. Career Pathways SPA. The 2015 Proposed Budget includes $100,000 in a new SPA to provide individuals employed in the City's transitional jobs program with case management services, including industry-ready employability assessments. This SPA will also provide support for the skills training and certification these individuals need to secure permanent, unsubsidized employment in the private sector. The City will enter into a MOU with Wisconsin Regional Training Partnership/Big Step for these purposes.
4. Collaborative Positions. The 2015 Proposed Budget provides funding for 2 new positions - one a MAWIB employee, the other a DPW staff support position -- to provide regular collaboration between City agencies, MAWIB, WRTP/Big Step and Milwaukee-area employers.
5. Community Work Partnership-Transitional Jobs SPA. Community Development Block Grant funds will be combined with $180,000 in a new Community Work Partnership-Transitional Jobs SPA in the 2015 Budget to provide the funding necessary to hire and compensate approximately 134 transitional job placements within City departments (DPW, MPD, DCD/DNS and the Port) in 2015.
This resolution also approves various agreements between the City and the Milwaukee Area Workforce Investment Board, Wisconsin Regional Training Partnership/Big Step and United Migrant Opportunity Services, Inc., for implementation of Compete Milwaukee, and authorizes the proper City officials to execute those agreements on behalf of the City. Finally, the resolution authorizes the appropriate City officials to expend the funds necessary to implement the Compete Milwaukee plan.
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Whereas, According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, in June, 2014, the City of Milwaukee's official unemployment rate was 9.3%, compared to 6.7% for the Milwaukee metropolitan area; and
Whereas, The unemployment rate in some Milwaukee neighborhoods and among certain subsets of the city's population far exceeds the 9.3% figure; and
Whereas, The Mayor and Common Council are committed to implementing innovative solutions to both improving the provision of City services and reducing Milwaukee's unemployment rate; and
Whereas, The Mayor's 2015 Proposed Budget provides $400,000 in funding for the Compete Milwaukee plan, a partnership of Mayor Barrett, the Common Council, workforce development agencies and private employers to make strategic workforce development investments that will address the problem of underemployment among Milwaukee residents; and
Whereas, The 2015 Budget funds will leverage federal (CDBG) and state funding, bringing the total value of this investment in Milwaukee jobs to about $2 million; and
Whereas, The goals of Compete Milwaukee are to:
1. Improve the quality of labor market information that is available locally. This will include forming an industrial advisory board to serve as a resource for workforce development agencies as they translate that information into programming and resource allocation decisions.
2. Enrich the experiences of transitional workers employed by the City of Milwaukee so that there is a greater likelihood that they will find meaningful work - and perhaps career employment - after working for the City for 1,040 hours.
; and
Whereas, Compete Milwaukee will consist of the following components:
1. Jobs Scan, Industry Assessment & Program Evaluation SPA. The 2015 Proposed Budget includes $75,000 in a new Jobs Scan, Industry Assessment & Program Evaluation Special Purpose Account ("SPA"). This funding will be used to create a model that delivers real-time labor market data to the City and workforce development agencies, which will use the data to understand and connect the needs of employers and employees and effectively allocate resources to make those connections. Industries targeted will be those that have both the greatest number of jobs and the strongest demand for new employees over the next decade: health care, manufacturing, retail/hospitality, financial services and construction. The City may also use this SPA to fund a third-party evaluation of the Community Work Partnership-Transitional Jobs component of Compete Milwaukee (#5 below). The City will enter into a Memorandum of Understanding ("MOU") with the Milwaukee Area Workforce Investment Board ("MAWIB") for these purposes.
2. Industry Advisory Board. Mayor Barrett and MAWIB will convene an Industry Advisory Board that will help the City and private employers use the Jobs Scan data to understand and connect job projections "on paper" with worker characteristics that the City and employers need. MAWIB will absorb all related staffing and administrative costs.
3. Career Pathways SPA. The 2015 Proposed Budget includes $100,000 in a new SPA to provide individuals employed in the City's transitional jobs program with case management services, including industry-ready employability assessments. This SPA will also provide support for the skills training and certification these individuals need to secure permanent, unsubsidized employment in the private sector. Examples include Commercial Driver License training, tutoring for Testing of Adult Basic Education, and Confined Space training. The City will enter into a MOU with Wisconsin Regional Training Partnership/Big Step for these purposes.
4. Collaborative Positions. The 2015 Proposed Budget provides funding for 2 new positions to provide regular collaboration between City agencies, MAWIB, WRTP/Big Step and Milwaukee-area employers. These positions -- the Compete Milwaukee Liaison (a MAWIB employee funded by the City through a formal agreement) and a Business Services Specialist (a new position in DPW-Administrative Services Division) - will ensure effective coordination between City government and other agencies.
5. Community Work Partnership-Transitional Jobs SPA. Community Development Block Grant funds will be combined with $180,000 in a new Community Work Partnership-Transitional Jobs SPA in the 2015 Budget to provide the funding necessary to hire and compensate approximately 134 transitional job placements within City departments in 2015. Participants will be paid wages consistent with the City's Living Wage ordinance. To implement this component of Compete Milwaukee, the City's existing transitional jobs program partnerships with United Migrant Opportunity Services, Inc. ("UMOS"), and MAWIB will be continued and expanded.
; and
Whereas, The Compete Milwaukee plan calls for the 134 transitional jobs employees to be assigned as follows:
1. Approximately 100 participants will be employed in a continuation of DPW's transitional jobs program with UMOS. These participants will receive job experience, skills acquisition and meaningful and needed work in several DPW service areas, including water facility maintenance, sewer main repair, street light maintenance, street pavement repair, parking line painting, landscape maintenance, and refuse and recycling services.
2. Approximately 20 participants will be assigned to a 10-month Milwaukee Police Department training and mentorship program in which they will receive 20 hours of on-the-job training each week, as well as 4 hours per week of classroom instruction and mentoring. Training/work assignments may include administrative office tasks, community support services, security and safety tactics, facilities- and fleet-related tasks, technology services, property-control skills and technical communications skills. The classroom instruction and mentoring will be in areas that complement participants' on-the-job experience, prepare them to apply for and obtain employment, and develop foundational life skills. These participants will be MAWIB employees of record.
3. About 13 Compete Milwaukee participants will be assigned to the Department of Neighborhood Services ("DNS") and the Department of City Development ("DCD"), where they will be prepared for possible future employment as entry-level code enforcement inspectors with DNS. Participants will receive 3 months of inspection training and mentoring from DNS residential code enforcement staff. They will then be assigned to perform 9 months of field work with DCD in rem property management staff, primarily monitoring City-owned foreclosed properties, performing visual inspections of those properties and completing property-condition reports. A third-party vendor may be hired by DCD to lead this crew of participants through the training process. These participants will be UMOS employees of record.
4. One participant will be assigned to the Port of Milwaukee through the UMOS program. This individual will perform general facilities maintenance work for the Port.
; and
Whereas, The Mayor and Common Council find that implementation of the Compete Milwaukee plan will:
1. Help employers assess their labor needs, understand and articulate barriers to employment for unemployed/underemployed Milwaukee residents, and make strategic connections to put Milwaukeeans to work.
2. Assist unemployed and underemployed Milwaukee in attaining career pathways that take them from transitional employment in the private and public sectors to permanent employment.
3. Align resources to advance current workers' skills and employability in the workplace.
4. Create a usable framework for matching Milwaukee-area workforce supply and demand.
5. Enable the City to address its infrastructure-maintenance, property-monitoring and public-safety needs while at the same time reducing unemployment and underemployment among City residents.
; now, therefore, be it
Resolved, By the Common Council of the City of Milwaukee, that the Common Council supports implementation of the Compete Milwaukee plan, as set forth in Exhibit A of this file; and, be it
Further Resolved, That the following documents, all of which comprise Exhibit B of this file and are necessary for implementation of the Compete Milwaukee plan, are approved:
1. Transform Milwaukee Jobs (TMJ) Collaborative Host Worksite Agreement (between the City and United Migrant Opportunity Services).
2. City of Milwaukee Transitional Jobs Program - Collaborative Host Work Site Agreement Addendum (between the City and United Migrant Opportunity Services).
3. Transform Milwaukee Young Adult Work Opportunity Agreement/Worksite Agreement (between the City and the Milwaukee Area Workforce Investment Board).
4. City of Milwaukee Transitional Jobs Program Young Adult Work Opportunity Agreement/Worksite Agreement Addendum (between the City and the Milwaukee Area Workforce Investment Board).
5. Cooperation Agreement between the City of Milwaukee and the Milwaukee Area Workforce Investment Board (for City funding of a MAWIB employee known as the "Compete Milwaukee Liaison").
6. Memorandum of Understanding between the City and the Milwaukee Area Workforce Investment Board for a Jobs Scan, Industry Assessment & Program Evaluation to be performed or coordinated by MAWIB and funded by the City.
7. Memorandum of Understanding between the City and Wisconsin Regional Training Partnership/Big Step for use of City funds by WRTP/Big Step to provide individualized assessment/case management, tutoring, and training opportunities for transitional jobs program participants.
; and, be it
Further Resolved, That the appropriate City officials are authorized to execute documents that are in substantially the same form as the documents in Exhibit B; and, be it
Further Resolved, That the appropriate City officials are authorized to expend the funds necessary to implement the Compete Milwaukee plan, as set forth in Exhibit A, including payments to any third-party vendors with which the City may contract for implementation of the plan.
Requestor
Drafter
LRB155338-3
Jeff Osterman
10/29/2014