HomeMy WebLinkAbout1979-07-03; City Council; 5902; Withdrawal Comprehensive Employment Training ActCITY OF CARLSBAD
AGENDA BILL NO. ,,57 � O zl Initial:
Dept.Hd.
DATE: July 3,_ 1979 C. Atty.
DEPARTMENT:_ Personnel C. Mgr.
Subject: RECOMI4ENDED WIMRAW744 FROM PARTICIPATION IN THE COMPREHENSIVE
EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ACT PROGRAM
Statement of the Matter
The city has participated in the Comprehensive Employment and
Training Act Program since its inception in January of 1974.
Both the city and CETA employees have gained from participation
in such a program. The city has gained in terms of the employees'
contributions to services to the citizens of Carlsbad. The CETA
employees have gained by experience and enhancing job proficiency
to a point where they may seek employment in the private or public
sector.
At present the city has four CETA employees remaining. New criteria
for hiring CETA employees, resulting from renewal of the CETA
legislation, have made continuation of the program less desirable.
Some of the restrictions growing out of present CETA legislation
are limiting the term of employment to 18 months as opposed to the
previous period of 24 months; imposing requirements for comprehensive
employee training and attendant employee training records; the
establishment of salary ranges is well below the bottom range existing
in the city; restrictive new eligibility criteria which would require
the city to recruit only in areas not covered by the City of San Diego
or other cities with a population in excess of 50,000; and certifica-
tion of new employees by the Employment Development Department of the
State of California.
With the new CETA criteria, it appears a continued participation
would require a greater staff effort than benefit to the city as a
result of employing CETA employees. Therefore, it is recommended to
the City Council that the city withdraw from the CETA program which
was administered by the County of San Diego at the end of the
federal fiscal year which is September 30, 1979.
Exhibit
1. Memorandum from the Personnel Director to the City Manager, dated
June 201 1979.
2. Resolution No.
Recommendation
If Council concurs, adopt Resolution No.
Council Action
7-3-79: Council adopted Resolution No. 5831
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CITY OF CARLSBAT
Personnel Department
MEMORANDUM
DATE June 20, 1979
TO City Manager
FROM Personnel Director
SUBJECT: CETA SUMMARY
The city has participated in the CETA program under the adminis-
tration of the County of San Diego since its inception in
January of 1974. During that period the city has employed a total
of forty-one CETA employees. The city currently employs four.
Of the total of forty-one CETA employees, six have been integrated
into the city's permanent work force, two were dismissed early in
the program for attendance and the balance of thirty-three have
found employment in either the private or public sector directly
from their employment with the City of Carlsbad.
The city has consistently met the objectives of the CETA program
in terms of serving the significant sectors of the community. We
have provided employment and experience under both Title II and
Title VI to our CETA employees. Of the four CETA employees remain-
ing, three of them have.appointments which we are required to
terminate on September 30, 1979. The remaining employee, a clerk in
the library, could continue for a period of six more months.
Considering the restrictions imposed by renewed CETA legislation
it is not recommended that this employee be continued nor is it
recommended that the CETA program be continued. New CETA require-
ments: Limited term of appointment to 18 months of service; new
CETA requirements provide for comprehensive employee training
programs and comprehensive recordkeeping of the program; new CETA
salary ranges fall well below the lowest salary range existing in
any of the city salary plans; new selection criteria would limit us
to hiring employees under the new CETA criteria which would normally
mean certification by the Employment Development Department.
All of these and many other factors considered, the benefits of
the program to the city would greatly diminish. It would involve
an increase of staff time to the Personnel Department and in the
operating departments to conduct and to validate training required
for CETA employees. Therefore, it is recommended that the city
withdraw from participation in the CETA program at the end of the
current federal fiscal year of September 30, 1979.
JEROME N. PIETI
Personnel Director
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1 RESOLUTION NO. 5831
2 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF CARLSBAD, CALIFORNIA, AUTHORIZING THE
3 WITHDRAWAL FROM THE COMPREHENSIVE EMPLOYMENT
AND TRAINING ACT PROGRAM AS ADMINISTERED BY
4 THE COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO.
5 WHEREAS, the City of Carlsbad has participated in the
6 Comprehensive Employment Training Act Program contracting with
7 the County of San Diego since January of 1974; and
8 WHEREAS, participation in the program has been a benefit
9 to the city and to the employees involved; and
10 WHEREAS, new Comprehensive Employment Training Act requirements
11 are considered restrictive to the point where the cost of adminis-
12 tering the program would greatly diminish its usefulness to the
13 city;
14 NOW, THEREFORE;, BE IT RESOLVED by the.City Council of the City
15 of Carlsbad, California, as follows:
16 1. That the above recitations are true and correct.
17 2. That the city will terminate its participation in the
18 Comprehensive Employment Training Act Program which is administered
19 by the County of San Diego, effective September 30, 1979.
20 PASSED, ADOPTED, AND APPROVED by the City Council of the City
21 of Carlsbad, California, at a regular meeting held the 3rd
b2 day of July , 1979, by the following vote to wit:
23 AYES: Councilmen Packard, Skotnicki, Lewis, Anear and
Councilwoman Casler
24 NOES: None
25 ABSENT: None
26
• ONALD C. PACKARD, Mayo
27 ATTEST:
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ALETHA L. RAUTEN RANZ, City Cle
(SEAL)