Series 458 - Minutes of the Employment and Training Councils

Established to administer various employment and training programs including the federal Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), the State Comprehensive Employment and Training (SCET) Program, and Title V of the federal Older Americans Act. These programs were planned, developed, implemented and controlled by OMP. In addition, the office provided staff support to the State Manpower Services Council (SMSC), later renamed the State Employment and Training Council (SETC), and local employment and training planning councils in the neighbor counties. The functions of the original agency, OMP, devolved on its successors basically unchanged, just as the purposes of the jobs programs remained unchanged despite changes in the enabling legislation. SCET was created as a part of the State Program for the Unemployed (SPU) by Act 151, SLH, 1975, and was operational by October 1975. It ended June 30, 1981, through failure of the legislature to extend the program into FY-1982. SMSC, its successor SETC, and their county-level counterparts were mandated by CETA and the Emergency Jobs and Unemployment Assistance Act (EJUAA, P.L. 93-567). If a state wished to participate in CETA or EJUAA, i.e., obtain a share of the funding available under either act, that state had to have a SMSC/SETC, with membership as specified in CETA/EJUAA, appointed by the governor, to propose programs for which grant applications would be prepared and submitted. Under the JPTA (Job Training Partnership Act; see below), the SETC was replaced by the Hawaii Job Training Coordinating Council (HJTCC), which is also federally mandated, and which performs the same functions under the JPTA as the SETC did under CETA.

Established to administer various employment and training programs including the federal Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), the State Comprehensive Employment and Training (SCET) Program, and Title V of the federal Older Americans Act. These programs were planned, developed, implemented and controlled by OMP. In addition, the office provided staff support to the State Manpower Services Council (SMSC), later renamed the State Employment and Training Council (SETC), and local employment and training planning councils in the neighbor counties. The functions of the original agency, OMP, devolved on its successors basically unchanged, just as the purposes of the jobs programs remained unchanged despite changes in the enabling legislation. SCET was created as a part of the State Program for the Unemployed (SPU) by Act 151, SLH, 1975, and was operational by October 1975. It ended June 30, 1981, through failure of the legislature to extend the program into FY-1982. SMSC, its successor SETC, and their county-level counterparts were mandated by CETA and the Emergency Jobs and Unemployment Assistance Act (EJUAA, P.L. 93-567). If a state wished to participate in CETA or EJUAA, i.e., obtain a share of the funding available under either act, that state had to have a SMSC/SETC, with membership as specified in CETA/EJUAA, appointed by the governor, to propose programs for which grant applications would be prepared and submitted. Under the JPTA (Job Training Partnership Act; see below), the SETC was replaced by the Hawaii Job Training Coordinating Council (HJTCC), which is also federally mandated, and which performs the same functions under the JPTA as the SETC did under CETA.