This case study describes the vocational education system and job training programs, especially those funded through the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act, in an unnamed metropolitan area of California. The data were collected as part of another larger national study of state and local response to the Perkins Act. Information was collected during a week of unstructured interviews with individuals in the community involved in some capacity with vocational education. The resulting data provides the basis for the overview of the vocational education system presented in this report. The report is organized into sections dealing with the following areas: (1) labor market composition; (2) state influences on local vocational education activities (covering state administration, education initiatives, economic initiatives); (3) elementary and secondary education jurisdictions (covering student characteristics, course offerings, regional occupational center programs); (4) postsecondary educational institutions; (5) proprietary and trade schools and community-based organizations; (6) employer-based training; (7) data requirements and availability; and (8) the disadvantaged and the employment and training system. (KC)