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COUNTY OF HAWAII RESOLUTION NO. 317 10 STATE OF HAWAII RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE OFFICE OF THE MAYOR TO ENTER INTO AN AGREEMENT WITH THE STATE OF HAWAII DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS, PURSUANT TO HRS 46 -7, FOR FUNDING FOR THE COUNTY OF HAWAI`I'S SENIOR TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM WHEREAS, the Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) is a community service and work based training program for older workers, funded under Title V of the Older Americans Act Amendments; and WHEREAS, the federal funds are channeled to the State of Hawaii Department of Labor and Industrial Relations' Workforce Development Division that annually awards a grant to the Hawaii County Office of Aging, which then contracts out this part-time training program to the Department of Parks and Recreation Elderly Activities Division's Senior Training & Employment Program (STEP); and WHEREAS, special SCSEP federal grant funds received by the State from the U.S. Department of Labor's Appropriation Act of 2009 (Public Law 111 -117, Title VIII) are being provided to the County of Hawaii to enable STEP to continue serving the nine (9) seniors added last year under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) (Public Law 111 -05); and WHEREAS, with these special funds, the nine (9) seniors currently participating in STEP under ARRA will be allowed to remain in their "on the job" training positions until June 30, 2011, otherwise they would have been terminated on May 2010, and WHEREAS, Hawaii Revised Statutes, Section 46 -7, requires that county departments obtain the consent of the council to enter into agreements with the federal or state governments respecting action to be taken pursuant to any of the powers granted by law to furnish, expend, and receive any funds or other assistance in connection with projects being or to be undertaken pursuant to those powers.