REPORT TO COUNCIL
SUBJECT
Title
Appoint New Members to the NOVA Workforce Board[YB1]
Report
BACKGROUND
The federal Workforce Investment Act (WIA) of 1998 stipulates the composition, roles and responsibilities of the local workforce board. The chief local elected official appoints the local workforce board; the Sunnyvale City Council serves as the Chief Local Elected Official for the NOVA consortium. The local workforce board determines how many seats are on the board, and is required to have a majority of representatives from business and representation from at least the following stakeholders:
* Business Executives (majority and chair)
* Education providers
* Labor Organizations
* Community-based organizations
* Economic development agencies
* One-Stop partners
The roles and responsibilities of NOVA Workforce Board members include (but are not limited to):
* Take a leadership role in forging a strong and vital partnership between business and the workforce development community, resulting in an entrepreneurial, market-driven, accountable and exceptional workforce investment system;
* Contribute specific expertise from key industries and articulate evolving industries' needs, critical to aligning our workforce with the jobs of the 21st Century;
* Develop and approve policy for workforce initiatives in the NOVA service-delivery area;
* Help create and provide oversight of a strategic plan;
* Evaluate and monitor program performance according to specified outcomes and measures; and,
* Promote the NOVA Workforce Board and workforce through collaboration and relationship building with other businesses, organizations and groups.
EXISTING POLICY
Council Policy 5.1.1 Socio-Economic - Goals and Policies, Goal 5.1F: Provide job training and employment services, within constraints of operative Federal regulations and available Federal funding, to address the locally-determined employment and training needs of economically disadvantaged resi...
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