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City updates recoverysf.org and details $6.1M workforce stimulus spending
Summary
City staff told the Budget & Finance Subcommittee they will post ARRA-tracked contracts and formula allocations on recoverysf.org and move forward with two workforce-related RFPs: a summer youth employment RFP (targeting 16–24-year-olds, ~400 slots, ~$1M) and a larger 'super RFP' to allocate the bulk of workforce stimulus funds (~$6.1M).
City staff on May 6 told the Board of Supervisors’ Budget & Finance Subcommittee they are expanding recoverysf.org to list federal stimulus opportunities and to track formula awards, aiming to make ARRA-funded contract opportunities easier for the public to find.
Carrie McClellan of the Office of Economic and Workforce Development said the site will link to the Office of Contract Administration so users can search and identify ARRA-tagged bids. She cited two live federal stimulus contracts already posted on the OCA site: an airport runway overlay project with about $12.5 million in federal funding (bid due May 21) and a Muni coach rehabilitation contract of roughly $16 million for 40 standard and 20 articulated coaches.
Amy Wallace, workforce development division manager, briefed supervisors on formula allocations that boost the city’s Workforce Investment Act dollars to just over $6 million over two years. Wallace said the Department of Labor’s guidance stresses increasing training and front-loading programmatic spending; the city must spend most funds promptly even though the grant period extends to 2011. “We are looking at a stimulus formula amount of workforce investment act dollars of just over $6,000,000 to be spent over the course of 2 years,” Wallace told the committee.
Wallace described two procurement tracks. The active RFP, released April 20, targets summer youth employment for people aged 16–24, proposes about 400 subsidized slots across nonprofit, private and government worksites, and budgets roughly $1 million in awards with about $750,000 earmarked for wages. She said proposals for that RFP were due the week of the meeting and the office expected to announce proposed funding levels around May 18. A larger “super RFP” or NOFA will follow to distribute the bulk of stimulus workforce dollars; that solicitation is intended to expand high-demand sector academies (construction, health care, green jobs, social services) and to fund satellite One-Stop services in neighborhoods with few workforce resources.
McClellan said recoverysf.org will add a homepage graphic tracking formula awards and a searchable opportunities page that will link directly to OCA contract listings. She told the committee the city will add an “other” category to track stimulus funds that do not come through city government and asked for public and board help in identifying external funding sources. Public meetings and procurement timelines (including a May 26 PUC meeting and community advisory meetings) will be posted to the site.
The subcommittee closed public comment on the item and continued Item 1 to the following week to allow staff to post updates and details.
