EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF LABOR, EDUCATION AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT.

Department of Labor and Workforce Development.

7002-0100

For the administration of the department of labor and workforce development including the divisions under the control of the department; provided, that funds shall be expended from this item for the deputy director of workforce development; and provided further, that on October 1, 1998 and April 1, 1999, the deputy director shall submit to the house and senate committees on ways and means a comprehensive report describing in detail the job training services, including labor exchange, skills training and remedial education services related thereto which have been provided during the course of the fiscal year in the commonwealth, describing the systems for delivery of such services, describing the costs of such services and the sources of revenue for such services and making recommendations for improvements in the delivery of such services

...............................................................$462,242

7003-0400

For a program to provide comprehensive re-employment assistance for dislocated workers, so-called, whose unemployment status is due to a plant closing or layoff; provided, that said assistance shall be provided in conjunction with any applicable federal funds granted to the state for related assistance; provided further, that the corporation for business, work and learning shall submit quarterly reports to the house and senate committees on ways and means on the number of persons in each service delivery area served by said program, on the number of people provided with training, retraining, education, support or rapid response services, and on the number of people placed in jobs as a result of said services

...............................................................$377,000

7003-0500

For the economic stabilization trust component of the industrial services program, as provided by chapter 23D of the General Laws, and for a re-employment assistance program as specified in section 71D of chapter 151A of the General Laws; provided, that a report of all revenues, expenditures, assets and liabilities of the program and of the economic stabilization trust be filed quarterly with the secretary of administration and finance and the house and senate committees on ways and means; and provided further, that funds appropriated herein may be used to provide working capital and related assistance to defense dependent firms and leverage federal matching funds authorized pursuant to Title IX of the public works and economic development act of 1965, as amended

...............................................................$605,400

7003-0601

For the summer jobs youth-at-risk program, including the costs of administration; provided, that service levels shall be developed so as not to exceed the appropriation made available herein; provided further, that the same number of youths shall be served in fiscal year 1999 that were served in fiscal year 1998, prior appropriation continued

...............................................................$1,525,000

7003-0603

For school-to-work connecting activities, so-called; provided, that notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, the department of labor and workforce development, in cooperation with the board of education and the MassJOBS council, is hereby authorized to establish and support a public-private partnership to link high school students with economic and learning opportunities on the job as part of the school-to-work transition program; provided further, that said program may include the award of matching grants to regional employment boards or other local public-private partnerships involving local community job commitments and work site learning opportunities for students; provided further, that said grants shall require at least a 200 per cent match in wages for said students from private sector participants; provided further, that the program shall include, but not be limited to, a provision that business leaders commit resources to pay salaries, to provide mentoring and instruction on the job, and to work closely with teachers; provided further, that public funds shall assume the costs of connecting schools and businesses to ensure that students serve productively on the job; provided further, that not less then $85,000 shall be expended for the purpose of an AFL-CIO school-to-work labor liaison, so-called; and provided further, that said positions shall facilitate the involvement of organized labor and the comprehensive initiative known as school-to-work, which prepares students to enter the workforce through a combination of classroom and work-based programs

...............................................................$4,585,000

7003-0700

For the expenses of the corporation for business, work and learning to secure employment, training and counseling for displaced workers and for the employee involvement and ownership in the workplace component of the industrial services program; provided, that $1,000,000 shall be expended for employed worker training technical assistance and matching grants; provided further, that not more than $175,000 shall be expended to administer said technical assistance program; provided further, that not less than $450,000 shall be expended for E-team machinist training program in the city of Lynn; provided further, that not less than $85,000 shall be expended for an incumbent worker training specialist within the Massachusetts AFL-CIO; provided further, that not less then $122,000 shall be expended for five part-time AFL-CIO rapid response labor specialists; provided further, that not less than $127,000 shall be expended for the employee involvement and ownership program, so-called; provided further, that a report of all revenues, expenditures, assets and liabilities of said corporation shall be filed quarterly with the secretary of administration and finance and the house and senate committees on ways and means; provided further, that the initial report of the corporation shall project spending for each state funded program anticipated to be administered by the corporation in fiscal year 1999 which shall be delineated according to the expenditure classification schedule established by the comptroller, and for each subsequent report, actual expenditures for each such program according to said classification schedule; provided further, that each such report shall further establish the indirect and direct administrative costs assessed by said corporation against each such program and a brief description of the purpose and performance objectives of each grant or contract awarded or issued by said corporation to third party vendors, contractors or other entities for each such state-funded program; provided further, that said corporation shall remain a quasi-public corporation; and provided further, that not less than $30,000 shall be expended for a contract with child and family services of Cape Cod, so-called, for a pilot program to provide comprehensive education, training and supportive services for parents and their children

...............................................................$2,022,000

7003-0701

N.B. - The Acting Governor had vetoed this item — and the General Court subsequently overrode the Acting Governor's actions.

For grants and technical assistance administrated by the division of employment and training, pursuant to the provisions of section 2RR of chapter 29 of the General Laws and for the cost of collecting the assessment established in section 14L of chapter 151A of the General Laws; provided that not more than $1,500,000 shall be expended for direct technical assistance pursuant to paragraph (2) of subsection (b) of said section 2RR of said chapter 29

...............................................................$9,000,000

Workforce Training Fund...............................................................100.0%

7003-0801

For the Just-A-Start Corporation to provide training for entry level employment in the biotech and medical fields for 30 unemployed or displaced workers or people on welfare; provided, that funds may be expended from this item for under-employed workers

...............................................................$150,000

7003-0803

For the seven one-stop career centers in existence on May 1, 1997 which are located in the Boston, Hampden county and the Metro North service delivery areas, so-called, and any satellite offices thereof which opened on or before December 1, 1997; provided, that no other career centers shall receive funding from this item

...............................................................$2,750,000

7003-0900

For the tactical training initiative, so-called

...............................................................$524,421

7003-0901

For a summer jobs youth-at-risk program; provided, that no funds appropriated herein shall be allotted or disbursed prior to the receipt of equal matching funds from private sources to any entity or municipality eligible for or requesting funds from this item; provided further, that an allotment and disbursement plan shall be submitted to the house and senate committees on ways and means prior to the expenditure of any funds appropriated herein; and provided further, that funds appropriated herein shall cover expenditures through the extended account payable period of fiscal year 1999, prior appropriation continued

...............................................................$412,500

7003-1000

For the workforce development initiative; provided, that the strategic planning committee of said council shall make recommendations relative to the use of said funds subject to approval by the full MassJobs council; provided further, that the executive committee of the MassJobs council shall approve the use of said funds should the full council be unable to approve the use of said funds in a timely manner; provided further, that each of the 16 regional employment boards shall receive not less than $75,000 in fiscal year 1999; provided further, that no regional employment board shall receive more than $37,500 until the report required by section 362 of this act has been submitted to the house and senate committees on ways and means; provided further, that each regional employment board shall (1) provide training on or before October 1, 1998 to each of its board members concerning the requirements of federal and state law with respect to conditions on the use of job training funds and the board's role in ensuring compliance with such requirements, (2) shall produce a written assessment of the performance of and planned improvements to job training delivery systems, including any existing one-stop career centers, in its region, and (3) shall file a copy of said assessment with the MassJobs council, the joint committee on commerce and labor and the house and senate committees on ways and means; provided further, that no grant made available to a regional employment board shall be used to encourage, induce, require or mandate the establishment of said regional employment board's administrative staff as an entity independent of the administrative entity agreed to under the provisions of the Federal Job Training Partnership Act by the regional employment board and the lead elected official; provided further, that expenditures for programs specified herein shall be subject to the approval of the local regional employment boards; provided further, that no specific program allocations directed herein shall preclude a regional employment board from receiving its equal share of funds to be distributed to regional employment boards by the MassJobs council; provided further, that funds provided to the regional employment boards shall not be subject to any limitations imposed by the MassJobs council; provided further, that the MassJobs council is hereby authorized and directed to expend not less than $150,000 for the consumer provider program operated by CASCAP, Inc. in collaboration with Bunker Hill community college for the training of men and women with psychiatric disabilities to become part-time employees at health and human services agencies within the commonwealth; provided further, that of the amount appropriated herein, not less than $150,000 shall be expended for the western Massachusetts enterprise fund and JVS microenterprise program as the supplemental match to conduct an entrepreneurial training program for income eligible residents; provided further, that not less than $100,000 shall be provided to the Massachusetts maritime academy for a training and work program in maritime trades, including but not limited to sailing, seamanship and nautical training; provided further, that the Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket regional employment board shall oversee and make recommendations regarding said program; provided further, that not less than $155,000 shall be expended to fund a program at the Massachusetts AFL-CIO to support and coordinate labor representation on the regional employment boards in the state's-workforce development system; provided further, that not less than $75,000 shall be expended for the career beginning program, so-called, at Worcester state college in the city of Worcester; provided further, that not less than $100,000 shall be expended for the refugee and immigrant self-sufficiency program, so-called, at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell

...............................................................$1,980,000

7003-2055

For the youth, senior service, and conservation group corps program, including the costs of administration; provided, that not more than $200,000 shall be expended for the administration of the Massachusetts service alliance; and provided further, that not less than $5,000 shall be provided for the Bonnie Brea camp, so-called, in the city of Gardner

...............................................................$1,500,000