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Committee adopts Workforce Development Board annual plan, allocates roughly $110.4M for 2025–26 programs
Summary
The committee adopted the Workforce Development Board’s annual plan for program year 25/26, authorizing roughly $110.4 million in program funding and related controller instructions to implement workforce services across multiple city departments.
The City Administrative Officer and the Economic and Workforce Development Department presented the Workforce Development Board’s annual plan for program year 2025–26. The annual plan allocates approximately $110.4 million to support the city’s workforce development system, including WIOA formula and discretionary grants, California youth-service funding (California for All), Los Angeles County grants, city general fund allocations, and prior-year carryover funds.
Susie Rios Belenot of the CAO and EWDD staff summarized the plan and the required actions to implement service strategies, including controller instructions and procurement authorities. The plan funds program operations across departments and includes partial funding for roughly 120 full-time staff who support workforce programs. Presenters said preliminary state allocations show a roughly $6 million increase for planning purposes but are not final until the state confirms allocations.
Committee members asked for detail about carryover funds and staffing; staff said the annual plan reflects a total carryover of about $17.5 million from multiple funding streams (including approximately $5.2 million in WIOA and $2.3 million in California for All funds). Members also approved a CAO-proposed amendment to controller instructions to establish a new interest-bearing fund to manage a U.S. Department of Labor earmark for a peer homeless system navigation program led by the Youth Development Department (YDD), including transfers and new appropriation accounts to reflect the federal earmark.
The committee approved the annual plan and the related actions, with staff instructing EWDD to report back by Dec. 15, 2025 on carry-in changes and any additional grants received. The committee also approved the CAO’s directive that any additional state allocations be recommended for programs that previously received funding and gave priority to certain programs, with EWDD to return with allocation recommendations if confirmed state funds arrive.
