Executive Committee

Make policy decisions necessary during the interim period between BOARD meetings. Any such decisions made shall be brought before the BOARD membership at its next meeting for ratification.

Finance Committee

Review program budgets and expenditures, review audit reports and financial aspects of program monitoring reports, making recommendations as needed.

System Design Committee

Create a sense of urgency at the regional and local level about the importance of a competitive workforce and assure that the industry clusters, employers and workers know of the available workforce development support service. Align workforce development, economic development and education. Build a demand-driven workforce system which clearly reflects the employment and training needs of industry cluster, knows the status of the available labor/talent pool, and promote strategies to assure a competitive labor force in terms of quality/quantity.

Impact and Measures Committee

Develop systems to measure and report the local and regional impact of a workforce development system. Review performance of contracted service providers to ensure program and contractual requirements are being met.

System Partners Committee

To look for and eliminate barriers which inhibit workers from getting the education/training needed to be employable and upwardly mobile, and employers from getting the quality/quantity of the workforce needed.

Youth Council

A mandated component of the Workforce Investment Board. The Youth Council provides the framework for developing comprehensive and effective strategies that ensure youth acquire the education, skill, work experience and support they will need to reach their full potential and successfully transition to productive adulthood. The mandated partners represented bring together a diverse set of stakeholders and resources to accomplish this mission.

Business Connections

*Sponsored Collaboration

An alliance of private and public sector partners that recognize and have agreed that we must engage the business sector at a greater level, increase the focus on business services, and integrate those services with our specific organizational mission to advance the economic development of Central Oklahoma. The partnership is comprised of educational institutions, economic development entities and organizations that serve a diverse group of targeted populations. The major focus of the group is to share information and knowledge so that each alliance member can become a resource for the workforce system. By empowering our members, we believe they will be seen by employers as their first resource to contact for a workforce and/or economic development need.