SECTIONS 88510-88515 - California Statutes

EDUCATION CODE

SECTION 88510-88515

88510. (a) The Board of Governors of the California Community
Colleges and the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges may
award grants to districts for leadership in accomplishing the mission
and goals of the economic and workforce development program, as
described in Section 88500.
(b) (1) The board of governors shall establish an advisory
committee for the California Community Colleges Economic and
Workforce Development Program and determine the membership, pursuant
to paragraph (2). The advisory committee shall guide overall program
development, recommend resource development and deployment, and
recommend strategies for implementation and coordination of regional
business resources. Based on new funding and information developed by
the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges pursuant to
subdivision (d) and forwarded to the advisory committee, the advisory
committee shall make recommendations to the chancellor and the board
of governors on whether new initiatives should be undertaken, and
whether existing initiatives should continue to be funded at their
existing levels, their funding increased or decreased, or their
funding terminated.
(2) The membership of the advisory committee shall include
representatives from labor; business; appropriate state agencies; a
faculty representative; a classified employee representative; and one
community college chief executive officer representative from each
of the 10 regions of the California Community Colleges Economic and
Workforce Development Program.
(3) The advisory committee shall be organized so that its work is
workforce and business development driven, each leveraging the other
to achieve economic development.
(c) The decision criteria for allocating funds to colleges shall
take into account all of the following:
(1) Regional workforce and business development needs.
(2) Emerging industries, labor market growth sectors, and gaps in
service provided by the community colleges of a region, as identified
by the current regional business resource, assistance, and
innovation network infrastructure with identified strategic priority
areas.
(3) Performance of the college or district in the administration
and achievement of proposed results of recently awarded economic
development projects.
(4) For service delivery projects, the cost of organizing,
administering, and delivering proposed services relative to the
number of clients to be served and the expected benefits. For
capacity building projects, showing how the capacity of the college
is improved in order to deliver services to employers and students.
(5) Demonstrated benefit to the college and faculty resulting from
the services provided for in subdivisions (a), (b), (c), (h), and
(j) of Section 88531.
(d) The chancellor's office shall provide systemwide oversight and
evaluation of the economic and workforce development program.
(e) The chancellor may establish program requirements and
performance standards in the administration of the economic and
workforce development program and distribute funds as appropriate to
implement the program.
(f) The chancellor may provide technical assistance to community
colleges for the purpose of improving the competitiveness of their
proposals.
(g) Funds shall be awarded for the program on a competitive basis.
(h) The chancellor, in awarding short-term competitive funds,
shall take into account colleges in economically distressed urban and
rural areas, and colleges that have not previously been successful
in the competitive bid process.

88515. This part shall be implemented only during those fiscal
years for which funds are appropriated for the purposes of this part
in the annual Budget Act.