OXNARD : Council to Continue Job-Training Effort

The Oxnard City Council has decided to allocate $16,343 in federal grants to continue job-training programs for migrant and disabled students from Oxnard Union High School.

The council dipped into the federal money to keep the programs going even though the city is slated to close its Job Training Office to save money.

Under an agreement approved by the City Council Tuesday, Oxnard Union High School will pay the salary of up to 20 migrant students to work in the city library. The city and the county’s Private Industry Council will each pay half of the salary of a counselor to supervise them.

Also, the city will continue to pay for the administrative costs of operating the Workability Program, which provides job-training services for at least 28 disabled students. The city will pick up the salaries of the disabled students. For its part, the high school will pay the salary of a counselor for that program.

The agreements over the two programs are an effort to keep the services going until the Private Industry Council, a nonprofit group that assists with minority training programs, can find another way to run the programs without the city’s Job Training Office.