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Receive a presentation by the Solano Economic Development Corporation on an application to the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz) for the California Jobs First Initiative grant program
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DEPARTMENTAL RECOMMENDATION:
The County Administrator's Office recommends the Board of Supervisors receive a presentation by the Solano Economic Development Corporation on an application to the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz) for the California Jobs First Initiative grant program.
SUMMARY:
The Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz) is conducting its second round of the California Jobs First Initiative, a strategy designed to foster a bottom-up approach to economic development efforts with focus on regional collaboration and a sustainable future. The second round focuses on the California Jobs First Economic Blueprint, creating good-paying jobs in the manufacturing sector. This second round provides competitive grant opportunities to support economic development efforts which accelerate economic and workforce projects throughout the State.
The Solano Economic Development Corporation has submitted an application for $2.5m to GO-Biz to establish regional coordination for strengthening the Bay Area's fragmented maritime industrial base across Solano, Contra Costa and Alameda counties. Functions include comprehensive asset mapping, unified Maritime Industrial Base Roadmap development, pooled funding of administration and shared data infrastructure. The effort, under the project name the Bay Area Maritime Ecosystem Backbone Organization, will coordinate regional applications for funding with a goal of providing for workforce pipelines and capital deployment across 15 plus shipyards and 200 plus supply-chain firms. The effort aims to attract federal investment in domestic and naval sh...
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