Employment Committee Meeting AGENDA

Employment Committee Meeting
date Wednesday, April 13, 2016
time 9:00 am
place Workforce Solutions Borderplex, Inc., Norman Haley Employment Center,
300 East Main, First Floor, Yost Room, El Paso, Texas 79901
AGENDA
I.
CALL TO ORDER AND NOTE OF ATTENDANCE
Item 1.1: Approval of the February 10, 2016 Employment Committee Meeting Minutes
(Yvette Delgado, Employment Committee Chair)
II.
ITEMS FOR DISCUSSION AND ACTION
Item 2.1: Discussion and action on the adoption of the updated Targeted Occupations
and Demand Occupations Lists (Karina Castillo, Research Specialist)
Item 2.2: Discussion and action regarding strategic plan goal to create three in-demand
certifications for trade/blue collar positions (Lucio Glenn, Program Specialist)
III.
ADMINISTRATIVE REPORTS
Item 3.1: Presentation on Project Higher (Rick Razo, Project Manager, Project Higher,
El Paso Community College)
Item 3.2: Disability Subcommittee report from April 7, 2016 meeting (Bobby Alcala,
Disability Sub-committee Co-chair)
Item 3.3: Discussion and status update regarding the 2016 Industry Driven Job Fairs
(Lucio Glenn, Program Specialist)
Item 3.4: Discussion and information on the TWC Employment related Contracted
Performance Measures (Karina Castillo, Research Specialist)
IV.
CONTRACTOR REPORTS
Item 4.1: Discussion and information on Manpower Group quarterly business relations,
activities, placements and rural outreach efforts (Rafael Ramos, Business Services
Manager)
Item 4.2 Report from Career Center Contractor (Laura Wyche, Project Director and
Terri Leisten, President, Dynamic Workforce Solutions)
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V.
ADJOURN
Item 5.1: Discussion on items of interest for next agenda – June 8, 2016