5101:9-31-15 Workforce Investment Act youth employment initiative awards.

[This rule designated an internal management rule]

(A) The Ohio department of job and family services (ODJFS) will distribute an allocation of workforce development discretionary funds to selected awardees. Funding for this initiative will flow through “Workforce Investment Act” (WIA) fiscal agents. The catalog of federal domestic assistance (CFDA) numbers assigned to this allocation are 17.258, 17.259, and 17.260.

(B) These allocations are made up of the state level discretionary WIA funds. There is a twenty per cent local match requirement. Match requirements may be met by local funds or by in-kind payments (i.e., space, time, or other resources).

(C) Allocations are based on awards granted via the ODJFS competitive request for proposal (RFP) process. Allocations are awarded to the WIA fiscal agents to support subgrant agreements between the WIA area and the selected program operators.

(D) Services to run the youth employment programs will be in accordance with those outlined provisionally in the RFP and as stated in the subgrant agreement between the WIA fiscal agent and the program operator.

(E) Funding for administration is limited to ten per cent.

(1) WIA fiscal agents who are not also operating the WIA youth employment program are limited to a maximum of three per cent.

(2) The WIA youth employment program operator is limited to the balance for a maximum of ten per cent.

(F) All expenditures shall be reported on the JFS 01992 “Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Funds Certification Sheet” as cited in rule 5101:9-7-29 of the Administrative Code.

Effective: 07/17/2008

Promulgated Under: 111.15

Statutory Authority: 5101.02

Rule Amplifies: 5101.02