- (a) Recipients of Office of Skills Development grant funds shall cooperate with, as appropriate, the office or other Governor’s Workforce Cabinet members to survey, identify, quantify, and prioritize workforce education and training needs and solutions.
(b)
- (1) Final decisions regarding all aspects of the office grants program are subject to the Governor’s Workforce Cabinet.
- (2) More particularly, the office and the Governor’s Workforce Cabinet have sole authority and discretion to determine whether a specific use of office grants is reasonable and allowable.
- (c) The proposed training provider, its credentials and rates and references, and its relationship or relationships to other parties involved in the proposal must be provided by the applicant or applicants.
(d)
- (1) Training programs created with funding contributed by office grants must be fully disclosed to the Division of Career and Technical Education and are eligible to be replicated and reused at no additional cost by Arkansas state government agencies to support the noncommercial, not-for-profit purposes described herein.
- (2) This subsection strictly prohibits sharing or using confidential or proprietary information other than for carrying out the narrow purposes specifically identified.
- (e) All records related to office grants, financial and otherwise, shall be retained by funding recipients for a minimum of five (5) years and shall be made available for inspection and audit at the expense of the State of Arkansas, upon reasonable request.
(f) No person shall be excluded from receiving the benefits of office grants on the basis of:
- (1) Gender;
- (2) Race;
- (3) Color;
- (4) National origin;
- (5) Age;
- (6) Religion;
- (7) Marital status;
- (8) Sex or sexual orientation; or
- (9) Disability.
(g) The following, at the sole discretion of the office and the Governor’s Workforce Cabinet, may be cause for denial of a proposal for funding or termination, cancellation, or postponement of funding and support under the office grants program:
- (1) Noncompliance with this part or the spirit or purpose of the office grants program;
- (2) Labor dispute or strike that impacts the ability to accomplish the purposes described herein;
- (3) An event or events not within the control of the applicants, the office, or the Governor’s Workforce Cabinet that make performance hereunder impracticable; and
- (4) Unavailability of funds.