(a) Each Native American grantee shall establish a planning process
for the development of its Master Plan and Comprehensive Annual Plan.
This planning process shall involve consideration of the need for job
training and employment services, appropriate means of providing needed
services and methods of monitoring and assessing the services provided.
Recognizing the importance of employer involvement in designing and
implementing programs, each Native American grantee shall involve
employers in program planning.
(b) (1) Each Native American grantee's planning process shall
involve consultation with major employers or organizations representing
employers inside the grantee's designated service or surrounding labor
market area. Such consultation shall include consideration of the
opportunities for placement of program participants and the design of
training activities and related services.
(2) A description of the procedures used for this consultation shall
be included in the grantee's Master Plan. The results of the
consultation shall be described in the grantee's Comprehensive Annual
Plan.
(3) Native American grantees are encouraged to establish or to use
existing formal advisory councils, such as Private Industry Councils, as
vehicles for such consultation. Grantees are also encouraged to use all
appropriate mechanisms, including Tribal Employment Rights Offices
(TEROs), to insure maximum opportunity for the placement of participants
in unsubsidized employment.
(4) A Native American grantee will not be held responsible for the
refusal of any employer or organization representing employers to engage
in the consultation process described in this section.
(c) In addition to the requirement in paragraph (b) of this section,
the planning process shall provide the opportunity for the involvement
of the client community, service providers (such as appropriate
community-based organizations) and educational agencies, tribal agencies
or other Indian and Native American organizations whose programs are
relevant to the provision of job training services within the grantee's
service area.
