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CITY COUNCIL AGENDA REPORT
City of Anaheim
HOUSING & COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
DEPARTMENT
DATE: APRIL 18, 2023
FROM: HOUSING & COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT
SUBJECT: WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARD APPOINTMENTS AND
REAPPOINTMENTS
ATTACHMENTS (Y/N): YES ITEM # 06
GOVERNMENT CODE § 84308 APPLIES: NO
RECOMMENDATION:
That the City Council, by Motion, appoint four new members and reappoint one member to the Anaheim Workforce Development Board (WDB) for terms described in the attached schedule: Rhonda Miller (new), representing business; Norma Lopez (new) and Martin Lopez (new) representing labor; Sherri Han-Lam (new), representing the California Department of Rehabilitation, and Gregory Scott (current), representing Community Action Partnership of Orange County.
DISCUSSION:
The City of Anaheim is a designated Local Workforce Development Area under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), receiving federal funds under the WIOA to establish, implement and maintain a local workforce development system and governance structure, including a Workforce Development Board (WDB). WIOA requires that the Anaheim City Council appoint members to the WDB based on criteria established by the Governor and the State Workforce Development Board. The eighteen (18) member WDB is comprised of business representatives and individuals from the public sector. Under WIOA the WDB is responsible for overseeing the management and performance of the workforce system and for conducting strategic planning to ensure the workforce system meets the needs of employers and job seekers. Business representatives must be nominated by a local business organization and shall include owners of businesses, chief executives or operating officers, and other business executives or employees with optimum policymaking or hiring authority. Individuals from the public sector are nominated by their respective representative agencies and are also individuals with optimum policymaking authority within the entities they represent.
The Better Business Bureau serving the Pacific Southwest nominated new business member Ms. Rhonda Miller; term ending June 30, 2025. The Orange County Labor Federation nominated new labor members Ms. Norma Lopez and Mr. Martin Lopez; terms ending June 30, 2024 and June 30, 2025, respectively. Sherri Han-Lam is the Workforce Development Board Appointments and Reappointments April 18, 2023
newly designated representative from the required Department of Rehabilitation partner agency; term ending June 30, 2024.
The term of appointment for newly appointed members is four years.
As provided in the WDB Bylaws, a member whose term expires may be reappointed to another term upon the member’s request. Mr. Gregory Scott currently serves on the WDB and requests reappointment to a new term ending June 30, 2027.
Additionally, WDB Bylaws specify that if a vacancy occurs during a term, a replacement appointee will serve out the remaining term of the original appointment. Four appointments come under this provision as described in the attached WDB Member Term Date Schedule.
Attached for your review are applications and resumes for the five new appointments and renewing members.
IMPACT ON BUDGET:
There is no budgetary impact.
Respectfully submitted,
Grace Ruiz-Stepter
Housing & Community Development Department Director
Attachments:
1. WDB Applications and Resumes
2. WDB Member Term Date Schedule