Located in:
- Program-Specific Requirements for Wagner-Peyser Program (Employment Services)
All Program-Specific Requirements provided for the WIOA core programs in this section must be addressed for either a Unified or Combined State Plan.
e. 4. B. Review and Public Comment.
In developing the AOP, the SWA must solicit information and suggestions from NFJP grantees, other appropriate MSFW groups, public agencies, agricultural employer organizations, and other interested organizations. In addition, at least 45 calendar days before submitting its final AOP, the SWA must provide a proposed plan to NFJP grantees, public agencies, agricultural employer organizations, and other organizations expressing an interest and allow at least 30 days for review and comment. The SWA must: 1) Consider any comments received in formulating its final proposed AOP; 2) Inform all commenting parties in writing whether their comments have been incorporated and, if not, the reasons therefore; and 3) Transmit the comments and recommendations received and its responses with the submission of the AOP. The AOP must include a statement confirming NFJP grantees, other appropriate MSFW groups, public agencies, agricultural employer organizations and other interested employer organizations have been given an opportunity to comment on the AOP. Include the list of organizations from which information and suggestions were solicited, any comments received, and responses to those comments.
Current Narrative:
The state solicited information and suggestions from the WIOA 167 National Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP) grantee, other appropriate MSFW groups, public agencies, agricultural employer organizations, and other interested organizations. The State provided a proposed plan to the following entities: the Maine Mi–grant Health Program, the Maine Department of Health & Human Services local offices in agricultural areas, the Refugee and Human Rights Clinic Program, the University of Maine School of Law, the Immigrant and Legal Advocacy Project, Mano en Mano (migrant worker family center), the National Farmworker Jobs Pro–gram 160 grantee – Eastern Maine Development Corporation, the Maine Department of Education – English as Second Language program, the Pesticide Program, the Maine Board of Pesticides Control, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development – Bangor office (migrant housing program), and Pine Tree Legal (Farm worker’s Division). MDOL will execute an MOU with EMDC which is the 167 Grantee for the NFJP. The Memorandum of Understanding between MDOL and Eastern Maine Development Corporation (EMDC), the WIOA 167 National Farmworker Job Program grantee, will facilitate the exchange of data pertaining to services provided to MSFWs.