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they can utilize WIA funds to provide support to economic development in their jurisdictions. This is <br />where RR funding can play a role. Properly deployed, RR assistance and subsequent DW services can <br />help mitigate the adverse economic impacts of business closures and job losses while enhancing the <br />business attraction and retention features of an area by helping displaced workers regain the types of <br />marketable skills that employers demand. <br />Because the 123 separate layoff events covered by this project are disbursed across multiple local <br />labor markets in 19 different NAICS industries, a single, top -down economic development approach to <br />all layoffs simultaneously is not practical. Rather, established relationships and program linkages <br />between the participating WIBs and their local economic development counterparts are the most <br />appropriate mechanisms through which RR, DW services, and NEG assistance should be channeled. In <br />Orange County, for example, local economic development entities and programs available to receive <br />and provide assistance under this project include: the City of Santa Ana and City of Anaheim Enterprise <br />Zone programs, the Irvine Chamber of Commerce Entrepreneur Program, the Orange County Business <br />Council, and Orange County's "Project Success," a program for small business retention and growth. <br />Five of the participating WIBs are housed in the economic development agencies of their <br />municipalities; these WIBs include those serving Orange County, San Bernardino County, San Joaquin <br />County, Stanislaus County, and the City of Santa Ana. The remaining local WIBs are nested within city <br />and county municipal structures and are thereby closely linked with the economic development systems <br />in their regions (e.g., city and county economic development agencies and bureaus, chambers of <br />commerce, local economic development corporations, etc.). Because municipal economic development <br />policies often promote job creation, local WIBs typically ensure that workforce development policies <br />and actions are in agreement so that local talent development needs can be met in coordination. <br />State and Federal Economic Development Resources Including Those Provided by the U.S. <br />Department of Commerce <br />Economic development usually occurs at the local level and many state and federal resources <br />are available to assist. For example, the Governor's Office of Economic Development (GoED) was <br />created in April 2010 as a one -stop shop to help the state's businesses acquire the direction, <br />information, and resources they need to invest, succeed, and expand in California. The GoED is the <br />state's lead entity for economic development coordination with all public and private entities and <br />was established using resources and staff from agencies and departments whose functions relate to <br />economic development; they include the California: Business, Transportation and Housing Agency, <br />Environmental Protection Agency, Natural Resources Agency, State and Consumer Services Agency, <br />27 <br />