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MEMORANDUM
To: Mayor, City Council, City Manager
From: Floyd Batiste, CEO
Date: Mazch 2, 2010
Subject: P. R. No. 15771; Council Meeting of Mazch 9, 2010
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` Attached is P. R. No. 15771 authorizing the Ciry of Port Arthur
Section 4A Economic Development Corporation to expend up to $3,000 of its
training budget for stipends to Port Arthur residents completing certain life skills
training and additional entry level training skills programs.
P. R. No. 15771
3/2/2010
RESOLUTION NO.
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING -THE CITY OF PORT ARTHUR
SECTION 4A ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION TO
EXPEND UP TO $3,000 OF ITS TRAINING BUDGET FOR STIPENDS TO
PORT ARTHUR RESIDENTS COMPLETING CERTAIN LIFE SHILLS
TRAINING AND ADDITIONAL ENTRY LEVEL TRAINING SHILLS
PROGRAMS
WHEREAS, the City of Port Arthur Section 4A Economic Development Corporation
(the "PAEDC") has been presented the opportunity through the City of Port Arthur to provide
life skills training programs and additional entry level skills training programs to Port Arthur
residents which residents may then be employed by businesses or industries that may require
additional skills upgrade training of such Port Arthur residents in order to make them ready for
employment in the expansion of local businesses and industry; and
WHEREAS, PAEDC has contracted with certaim subcontractors to provide life skills
training programs and following completion of life skills training programs -has provided for
entry level skills training programs in either construction trades or medical and technical trades
to Port Arthur residents who have qualified for participation in the'life skills training programs;
and
WHEREAS, in order to encourage the most qualified individuals to seek the life skills
training and entry level skills training through the programs contracted by the PAEDC through
its subcontractors, the PAEDC proposes to provide a stipend of $150 for. each Port Arthur
resident that completes the life skills training program offered through the subcontractor to the
PAEDC and additionally a $I50 stipend for each Port Arthur resident that following completion
of the life skills training program also successfully completes the entry level skills training
program offered by subcontractors through the PAEDC; and
WHEREAS, any of the training budget funds which are not expended by the 30`h day of
June, 2010 shall be retained in the training budget for the PAEDC for its current fiscal yeaz.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF PORT ARTHUR:
Section 1. That-the facts and opinions in the preamble are true and correct.
Section 2. That the PAEDC is herein authorized to use $3;000 of,the PAEDC training
budget to fund a stipend to Port Arthur residents as set forth in this Resolution who have
completed the life skills training and entry level skills training programs offered to Port Artliur
residents through subcontractors to the PAEDC.
Section 3. That a copy ~of this Resolution shall be spread upon the Minutes of the City
Council.
READ, ADOPTED AND APPROVED on this _ day of A.D., 2010,
at a Meeting of the City Council of the City of Port Arthur, Texas, by the following vote:
AYES:
Councilmembers
NOES:
DELORIS "BOBBIE" PRINCE, MAYOR
ATTEST:
TERRI HANKS, CITY SECRETARY
APPROVED: - ,
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FLOYD BATISTE, PAEDC CEO ,
APPROVED A O FORM:
GUY N. OODSON, PAEDC ATTORNEY-
.APPROVED AS TO FORM: -
VALE~IA R. TI~NQ CITY~ATTORNEY