Memorandums of Understanding and Resource Sharing Agreements. Resource Sharing Agreement (RSA), as reflected in the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), document agreements between participating members in a multi-funded program delivery system at the local level and address cost distribution relative to Job Centers. The MOU is more global in scope compared to the RSA and includes agreements reached on governance, program delivery, accounting, reporting, and many other factors relative to each of the Job Center Partners. It can also include a joint program plan and financial budget for delivering services. The form of the agreement will vary by location and type of delivery system, but it will generally include items such as those discussed below. The RSA supports the decisions made about where resources flow from and where benefits flows to, and how the mix of resources coming together provide an appropriate level of benefit and cost to each of the funding sources. The RSA will be a self-contained document that will include the Plan of Service and differs from the Cost Allocation Plan. The development of the RSA encompasses the concept of bottom line benefit. In the RSA, each of the parties will agree to the performance objectives, their share of contributed resources to the project, the costs they will pay for, the measures of benefit used to determine the equitable distribution of costs, the periodic review of results and amendments to the plan and, lastly, the method of resolving variances at period‑end between planned and actual activity. The MOU (and RSA) have two major parts: Agreement on Governance, and Plan of Service. See Workforce Resource partner page on web site (xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx … password is "wfpartner") for specific examples, layout and content. Individual partners are responsible for ongoing maintenance of their information and participate with Steering Committee to maintain these agreements regarding appropriateness and amounts of contribution. The local Steering Committee's key financial partners have final authority regarding reasonableness and adequacy of local job center cost distributions. The following items are documented in the agreement:
