Funding Limitations

The eight-member Employment Training Panel is responsible for assessing California's workforce trends and economic development needs. Thus, the Panel establishes funding priorities each Fiscal Year. The following are effective for FY 2012-13.

Lowest Priority

  • For-Profit Training Schools - This includes schools where the cost of training is normally covered in full through student financial aid and ETP funding is for part of a more comprehensive curriculum.
  • New Hire Truck Drivers - This excludes training proposals with formal involvement of trucking company employers and/or unions.
  • New Hire Security Guards
  • Temporary Agency Employees (Retraining)
  • Adult Entertainment Industry - This includes the design, manufacture, distribution, servicing, management or sale of products or services in the adult entertainment and gambling industry.

Moratorium

  • First-time training agencies - This does not include non-profit schools (e.g. Community College Districts).

Other Limitations

  • Support Costs - Multiple Employer Contractors must justify the need for and amount of Support Costs.
  • Employer Demand - Multiple Employer Contractors requesting funds for retraining must demonstrate firm commitment to training by Participating Employers equivalent to at least 80% of the requested amount of funding.

Project Caps


Contract Type		 Non-SET Funding
Project Cap		 SET Funding
Project Cap
Single Employer - Priority Industry $600,000 $450,000
Single Employer - Non-Priority Industry $500,000 $350,000
Job Creation - Retrainee $600,000
(Increase case-by-case)		 $600,000
Combined Single Employer & Job Creation - Retrainee $800,000 $700,000
Critical Proposals $750,000
(Increase case-by-case)		 $750,000
Multiple Employer $850,000 $700,000
Small Business $50,000 $50,000
Fast Track $100,000 $100,000
Annual Employer Limit (all facilities) $1 M $1 M
Apprentice Training $300,000 $300,000
AB118 single Employer - Priority Indusry $650,000
(Increase case-by-case)		 $500,000
AB118 Multiple Employer $850,000
(Increase case-by-case)		 $750,000

Amendments: Requests to increase funding in these areas for existing contracts will be evaluated case-by-case based on performance.

 

See Funding Limitations Table