| THIRD AMENDMENT TO REVISED JOINT EXERCISE OF POWERS AGREEMENT CREATING A NORTHERN RURAL TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT CONSORTIUM (NoRTEC) |
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| This Third Amendment to Revised Joint Exercise of Powers Agreement ("Third Amendment"), dated December 31, 2007, for reference purposes only, is entered into pursuant to Chapter 5, Division 7, Title I of the Government Code of the State of California, by and among the California Counties of Butte, Del Norte, Lassen, Modoc, Plumas, Shasta, Sierra, Siskiyou, Tehama, and Trinity (collectively, the “Existing Parties") andthe County of Nevada (the "Added Party"), each of which hereby agrees as follows: |
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Previous Agreement |
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The Existing Parties (excepting only the Counties of Shasta and Sierra) previously approved the Revised Joint Exercise of Powers Agreement Creating a Northern Rural Training and Employment Consortium (the "Original Agreement") in compliance with the California Government Code, to jointly implement the provisions of the federal Workforce Investment Act of 1998, 29 U.S.C. 2801Â et seq. ("WIA") and for other purposes described in the Original Agreement. Thereafter, all of the Existing Parties (excepting only the County of Sierra) approved the First Amendment to the Original Agreement, dated May 16, 2000 (the “First Amendment”), to add the County of Shasta as a party thereto; and all of the Existing Parties approved the Second Amendment to the Original Agreement, dated December 31, 2005, to add the County of Sierra as a party thereto. The Original Agreement, the First Amendment and the Second Amendment are collectively referred to herein as the “Agreement,” and each capitalized term below which is not otherwise defined herein shall have the meaning defined in the Agreement. |
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Addition of Sierra County |
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The Added Party is hereby made fully a party to the Agreement to the same degree and extent as each of the Existing Parties. As such, the Added Party fully adopts and approves the Agreement as amended by this Third Amendment; and each of the Existing Parties fully adopts and approves this Third Amendment. Upon approval by each of the Existing Parties and the Added Party, the Governing Board and NoRTEC shall make all reasonable arrangements to integrate the Added Party's Governing Board representative and WIA program administration and operations into NoRTEC's ongoing process of implementing WIA; provided that nothing herein shall require pre-existing policies or procedures of NoRTEC to be revised to accommodate the Added Party; and further provided that the Added Party's Governing Board representative and its WIA program administration and operations shall hereafter fully comply with NoRTEC policies and procedures applicable to the Existing Parties. |
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Governing Board |
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The Governing Board of NoRTEC established by the Agreement shall be comprised of eleven (11) members: the ten (10) members identified in the Agreement, plus one (1) member of the Board of Supervisors of the County of Nevada. Each reference in the Agreement to a particular number of Boards of Supervisors or Governing Board members or counties is hereby amended to eleven (11) of each. |
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Effective Date; No Other Amendment |
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This Third Amendment shall be effective immediately upon its approval by each of the Existing Parties and the Added Party, whereupon they shall collectively be known as "the parties" to the Agreement as amended hereby; provided that the process of integrating the Added Party into NoRTEC and expanding the Governing Board (described in Sections 2 and 3 above) need not be fully implemented until July 1, 2008; and further provided that, notwithstanding any other provision hereof, this Third Amendment shall not be effective to any extent or for any purpose excepting only upon approval by the State of California of the addition of the County of Nevada to NoRTEC for WIA purposes. Except as expressly amended hereby, the Agreement shall remain fully in effect as originally adopted by the Existing Parties. |
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF the ten (10) Existing Parties and the one (1) Added Party have each caused their representatives to affix their signatures to this Third Amendment to Revised Joint Exercise of Powers Agreement, effective as provided in Section 4 hereof. |
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