New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 11 - LABOR AND WORKERS' COMPENSATION
Chapter 2 - JOB TRAINING
Part 5 - WORKFORCE INNOVATION AND OPPORTUNITY ACT ONE STOP SYSTEM AND PARTNERSHIPS
Section 11.2.5.9 - ONE-STOP PARTNERS AND PARTNER RESPONSIBILITIES
Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 18, September 24, 2024
WIOA establishes goals for the integration of workforce development programs. These goals are intended to maximize the value and benefits to customers of services available to them under federally-funded workforce development programs. Planning and coordinating services among all federally-funded workforce development partners is necessary in order to achieve the level of integrated services delivery required by WIOA. This means that all federally-funded workforce development programs must work in partnership to optimize the quality of services provided. Successful integration is directly related to coordinated and joint use of resources.
A. These required partners are entities responsible for administering the following workforce development programs and activities in the local area:
B. Each required partner must provide its workforce development programs or activities through the one-stop delivery system.
C. Each local board is mandated to establish a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with each of the required one-stop partners in that local area that describes their programmatic and fiscal contributions for infrastructure, and additional costs necessary to support the one-stop delivery system.
D. WIOA and related regulations outline the requirements for federally-funded workforce development partners to contribute to infrastructure funding of the one-stop system in each local area. Partner programs and additional partners that carry out a program in the local area are required to share infrastructure costs and certain additional costs. When two or more grant recipients or contractors of a required partner program carry out a program in a local area, these entities are considered one-stop partners, and they must reach out to the local board to assist in carrying out the roles and responsibilities of the workforce connection centers, including negotiating their share of the infrastructure costs.
E. When one or more required partners is the recipient of multiple federal grant awards, each grant or contract recipient carrying out the workforce development program in that local area must contribute towards the infrastructure costs. Contributions must be based on the proportionate use and relative benefit received by those partners from the workforce connection centers. As required one-stop partners, Native American programs are strongly encouraged to contribute to infrastructure costs, but they are not required to contribute. Any agreement or contribution or non-contribution to infrastructure costs by Native American programs must be documented in the MOU carried out by the US department of housing and urban development;