The following definitions apply to this chapter and the Iowa
Job Training Partnership Act program unless the context otherwise
requires:
"Act" means the Job Training Partnership Act,
PL. 97-300, as amended by PL. 102-367.
"Administrative capacity" means the positions
that have overall administrative responsibility for selection, hiring,
placement, or supervisory responsibilities regarding participants served or
staff hired under a grant agreement.
"Administrative entity" means the
organization, corporation, agency or unit of government designated under an
agreement between a private industry council and representative(s) of the
parties to an Iowa Code chapter 28E agreement to manage and execute a job
training plan in a service delivery area of the state.
"Chief elected official (CEO) " means the
local elected official who is selected from the participating units of
government in the service delivery area (SDA) to act as their authorized
representative. In the case of a service delivery area, this would be the
chairperson of the local elected officials' JTPA board. For the state, the CEO
is the governor.
"Community-based organizations (CBO)" means
private, nonprofit organizations which are representative of communities or
significant segments of communities and which provide job training services.
Examples include United Way of America, neighborhood groups and organizations,
community action agencies, community development corporations, vocational
rehabilitation organizations, rehabilitation facilities (as defined in Section
7(10) of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973), tribal governments, and agencies
serving youth, persons with disabilities, displaced homemakers, or
on-reservation Indians.
"Department" or"DWD" means
the department of workforce development, which has been designated as the state
administrative entity to administer the Job Training Partnership Act on behalf
of the governor.
"Grant recipient" means the organization,
corporation, agency or unit of government designated under an agreement between
a private industry council and representative(s) of the parties to a 28E
agreement to receive Job Training Partnership Act funds on behalf of a service
delivery area of the state.
"Local elected officials (LEO)" means county
supervisors, except with respect to contiguous municipal corporations with a
population of 200,000 or more that serve a substantial part of a labor market,
in which case the mayor of that municipality(ies) is also a "local elected
official." LEOs must approve the local service delivery area's local training
plans and modifications before they are submitted to the governor.
"Local training plan " means a written program
of action approved by the governor which delineates the method of operation and
proposed budget for a JTPA program in a service delivery area. The two types of
local training plans are:
1. The Job
Training Plan (JTP) is the designation given to the plan for the Title IIA and
IIB programs.
2. The Title III
Dislocated Workers Plan is the designation given to the plan which describes
the Dislocated Worker Center program.
"Private industry council (PLC) " means the
group of persons in a service delivery area appointed to oversee (review,
monitor, and evaluate) the programs conducted pursuant to that service delivery
area's local training plans. The PIC must also approve the local service
delivery area's local training plans and modifications before they are
submitted to the governor.
"Service delivery area (SDA) " means those
regions in which the state is divided and through which job training services
are delivered. Each SDA must have a PIC, a LEO 28E agreement, a LEO/PIC
agreement, a job training plan, a grant recipient, an administrative entity,
and service providers.
"Service provider" means any person,
organization, or other entity which receives a contract (financial or
nonfinancial) under JTPA through an SDA grant recipient or JTPA grantees or
contractors to carry out substantive work (e.g., employment, training, support
services, purchases of supplies or equipment).
"Subrecipient" means any person, organization
or other entity which receives financial assistance under JTPA through an SDA
grant recipient. In a service delivery area where the grant recipient and
administrative entity are separate entities, the term "subrecipient" includes
the administrative entity.
"Workforce development board" or
"WDB" means the board appointed by the governor pursuant to
Iowa Code chapter 84A.
