City of Milwaukee - File #: 150145

• File #: 150145
• Version: 2
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Passed
• File created: 5/12/2015
• In control: COMMON COUNCIL
• Final action: 6/2/2015
• Title: Substitute resolution relating to creation of the Milwaukee Clean Summer Youth Jobs Program, appropriating funding to the Department of Administration from the 2015 Special Purpose Account Reimbursable Services Advance Fund, and authorizing the expenditure of funds for this purpose.
• Sponsors: Russell Stamper, ALD. KOVAC, ALD. COGGS, ALD. BAUMAN, ALD. HAMILTON, ALD. PEREZ, ALD. WADE, ALD. MURPHY, ALD. BOHL
• Indexes: YOUTH EMPLOYMENT

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
6/11/2015	2	MAYOR	SIGNED
6/2/2015	2	COMMON COUNCIL	ADOPTED	Pass	13:0
5/27/2015	1	COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE	SUBSTITUTED; Minutes note: Proposed Substitute A accepted. Myra Edwards - Mayor's Office Earl Buford - Milwaukee Area Workforce Investment Board	Pass	5:0
5/27/2015	1	COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE	RECONSIDERED	Pass	5:0
5/27/2015	2	COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE	RECOMMENDED FOR ADOPTION	Pass	5:0
5/27/2015	2	COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE	AMENDED; Minutes note: Amended to change from 25 hours per week to 20 hours per week.	Pass	5:0
5/12/2015	0	COMMON COUNCIL	ASSIGNED TO

Number
150145
Version
SUBSTITUTE 2
Reference

Sponsor
ALD. STAMPER, KOVAC, COGGS, BAUMAN, HAMILTON, PEREZ, WADE, MURPHY AND BOHL

Title
Substitute resolution relating to creation of the Milwaukee Clean Summer Youth Jobs Program, appropriating funding to the Department of Administration from the 2015 Special Purpose Account Reimbursable Services Advance Fund, and authorizing the expenditure of funds for this purpose.

Analysis
This resolution approves the appropriation and expenditure of $375,000 in reimbursable authority from the 2015 Reimbursable Services Advance Fund to the Department of Administration to create a program to be known as the Milwaukee Clean Summer Youth Jobs Program. This project will provide funding for a summer youth jobs program to be administered by the Milwaukee Area Workforce Investment Board.

Body
Whereas, The City of Milwaukee suffers from particularly high rates of unemployment among teens and young adults; and

Whereas, The Mayor’s Earn and Learn Program has collaborated successfully with the Milwaukee Area Workforce Investment Board (MAWIB) to place thousands of teenagers in summer employment in the past decade; and

Whereas, The Milwaukee Clean Summer Youth Jobs Program, as a subcomponent of the Mayor’s Earn and Learn Program, seeks to increase summer employment opportunity by providing additional paid employment for Milwaukee youth ages 14 to 18 in positions with the Community Work Experience component of Earn and Learn; and

Whereas, The Milwaukee Clean Summer Youth Jobs Program will support adolescent development by employing youth in productive activities, such as assignments to community-and faith-based organizations including weekly enrichment activities and work assignments that improve the surrounding neighborhoods; and

Whereas, The Milwaukee Clean Summer Youth Jobs Program will provide disadvantaged young Milwaukeeans with income, help them acquire work experience, and develop lifelong work-readiness skills...