Tier I Street Resurfacing Project – Willow Street Before Improvements

Tier I Street Resurfacing Project – Willow Street After Improvements

June 6, 2011
The City of San José is moving aggressively to implement projects and programs funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act). As of June 2011, the City expects to receive approximately $108 million in Recovery Act funds through a combination of formula and competitive allocations. In the two years since President Obama signed the Recovery Act into law, the City has expended nearly $60 million on Recovery Act activities, while creating more than 980 direct jobs in the process. This website highlights the many community-serving initiatives that will benefit from these Recovery Act funds, such as job training and counseling services to youths and adults, investments in energy efficiency and renewable energy, as well as improvements to the City’s infrastructure.

Earlier this year, work2future, the Workforce Investment Board for the City of San José and the surrounding region, completed implementation of several programs funded by the Department of Labor through the Recovery Act to support eligible activities under the Workforce Investment Act. Funds were used by work2future to provide a variety of support services, including occupational skills training, job readiness workshops, as well as placement and counseling services to more than 3,200 adult and dislocated workers over the past two years. In addition, Recovery Act funds helped to support summer work experience programs that served over 1,000 eligible youth clients between the ages of 15-24 in 2009 and 2010. Youth participants in the summer programs completed work readiness training designed to enhance their employment skills, while earning more than $3.6 million in wages during the two year period. Read more >>