CEO Report Board Meeting 8-16-2017 BCEO Meeting 8-24-17 Finished Budget after getting final figures in July from the Oklahoma Office of Workforce Development (OOWD) New funding increased $594,462.00 Carry over decreased $267,221.00 Increased Adult client funds $328,229.00 Increased Youth client funds $265,459.00 Must spend 40% of all adult program funds on defined training activities Must spend 20% of youth program funds on work related activities

Memorandums of Understanding Required to have these finished by June 30 State published policy on June 23 State has supplied a consultant to negotiate with some of our required partners in an effort to have all signed Currently lacking 11 out of 30 Must be signed to certify our workforce centers

Workforce Center Certification Required to be completed by June 30 State issued policy on June 23 Can’t work on certifying our own centers Entered into agreement with South Central and Southern to certify each other’s centers All have to be completed by August 31 Bill, Yolanda and I are working on that task

Board Members First and foremost, my thanks to Jeff Cover and Perry Snead who did not miss a meeting last year We will be adding new members this month New members will represent both geographical areas and industry sectors that were under represented. Tara Crowley of Gibson's in Cleveland County was added in June by the Elected Officials Five (5) more business representatives and Warren Griffis of the Oklahoma Department of Veteran Affairs will be placed on the BCEO agenda for appointment next week That will move the Board back to 39 members with room for one more business representative

Strategic Planning Session Joint session with board members, board of chief elected officials (BCEO) and partners participated in a facilitated visioning session on June 27, 2017 Eleven topics were suggested to be considered and eight were finalized We discussed current state, future/goal status, critical success factors, barriers and resources needed Three were considered as immediate and the rest were placed in a pending status

Immediate Topics Lack of Work Habits What Specific Skills Sets Are Missing and How to Remedy Employer Engagement

Pending Topics Hire for Education/Hire for Experience Services Not Aligned Board Member Roles and Responsibilities Align Education with Business Needs for the Emerging Workforce Technology Needed to Improve Services The entire document is on the web site and the business survey conducted to start the conversation

Additional Comments Been approved for three part-time Americorps volunteers, all of whom will work on engaging with additional volunteers for projects, each scheduled for 19 hours weekly Have renewed all of the business insurance coverages for the year. Includes Directors and Officers as well as Professional Grant Writers and added EPLI as well as cyber security Board members will be required to sign a conflict of interest statement

Comments Cont’d We are maintaining our current employee fringe package. Most of the coverages went up a very small amount except for health insurance which increased by 12.86%. Covered in the budget Have completed the laundry list for our auditors Submitted a bid to help the new Western Oklahoma Board hire staff and conduct the process for service provision and one stop operator Hoping that after center certification we can focus on policy development as the state issues their direction on a variety of items

Cont’d With the 40% rule on programmatic expenditures, we will have to monitor that on a monthly basis. Our budget figures have us planning on spending 49% We will have to spend more on administration than previous years because of this rule. What we need to ensure is that we are spending wisely and not just to meet an arbitrary figure. We will focus on quality training at the best price, that leads to good job placement opportunities