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COUNTY OF HAWAII STATE OF HAWAII RESOLUTION NO. 731 ~-$ A RESOLUTION ENCOURAGING THE ADMINISTRATION TO RESEARCH THE APPLICATION PROCESS TO OBTAIN FUNDING FOR AN ENERGY WORKER- RELATED TRAINING PROGRAM, AS ESTABLISHED THROUGH THE GREEN JOBS ACT 2002 WHEREAS, the Green Jobs Act 2007, was signed into law on December 19, 2007 and codified as part of Public Law 110-140, Title X, Section 1002: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Worker Training Program; and WHEREAS, the Green Jobs Act 2007 provides a funding source "to establish an energy efficiency and renewable energy worker training program"; and WHEREAS, this legislation established up to $125 million in grant funding to initiate national and state job training programs to help address job shortages that are impairing growth in green industries, such as energy efficient buildings and construction, renewable electric power, energy-efficient vehicles, and bio-fuels development; and WHEREAS, on January 31, 2008, Governor Lingle signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the U.S. Department of Energy for the Hawaii-DOE Clean Energy Initiative (HCEI), where the strategic vision to the initiative's implementation recognizes Hawai`i's need to "build the workforce of the future" and "help create educational and employment opportunities necessary to sustain a clean energy economy"; and WHEREAS, unemployment is constantly rising in Hawaii County, increasing in May 2008 to 6.0%, the highest in the state and well above state (3.8%) and national (5.5%) levels; and WHEREAS, this initiative not only assists in building a path towards a strong energy self-sustainable future, but also helps our workforce reply to the increasing demand for "green jobs", opening employment opportunities for "green-collar" jobs, benefiting mainly, but not solely, low-income and working-class constituents, especially in these times of high unemployment; now, therefore, BE TT RESOLVED BY TIIE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII that the administration explore the possibilities of establishing acounty-wide energy efficiency and renewable energy worker training program; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the administration explore how to access federal funding provided by the Green Jobs Act 2007; and ;.