Alameda County Training and Employment Board v. U.S. Department of Labor Roderick A. Dearment, Acting Secretary of Labor

Alameda County Training and Employment Board petitions for review of then Secretary of Labor Dole’s decision affirming then California Governor Deukmejian’s disapproval of the Board’s job training plan. We deny the petition.

BACKGROUND

The stated purpose of the Job Training Partnership Act (the Act), 29 U.S.C. § 1501 et seq., is “to establish programs to prepare youth and unskilled adults for entry into the labor force and to afford job training to those economically disadvantaged individuals and other individuals facing serious barriers to employment, who are in special need of such training to obtain productive employment.” 29 U.S.C. § 1501 (1988). To effectuate this goal, the federal government appropriates money to local administrative units known as “service delivery areas.” Each state’s governor is responsible for designating that state’s service delivery areas according to criteria spelled out in the Act. See 29 U.S.C. § 1511 (1988).

The instant case centers around one of California’s service delivery areas, the Alameda County Service Delivery Area, which consisted of fourteen units of local government: Alameda County, and the cities of Alameda, Albany, Berkeley, Dublin,…