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HomeMy WebLinkAboutR-02-1176RESOLUTION NO. 02-1176 A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION APPROVING THE APPOINTMENT OF FOUR (4) INDIVIDUALS FROM THE MANDATORY CATEGORIES TO THE SOUTH FLORIDA WORKFORCE BOARD AS DETAILED IN SECTION 2 OF THIS RESOLUTION. WHEREAS, as per the formula in the Agreement among the members of the South Florida Employment and Training Consortium, the City of Miami has fifteen (15) appointments on the South Florida Workforce Board; and WHEREAS, the South Florida Workforce Board is comprised of members from the private sector, economic development agencies, organized labor, educational institutions, local elected officials and State agencies; and NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA: SECTION 1. The recitals and findings contained in the preamble to this Resolution are hereby adopted by reference thereto and incorporated herein as if fully set forth in this Section. SECTION 2. The City Commission hereby appoints the following individuals to one (1) year terms on the South Florida Workforce Board: City Commission Meeting of October 29, 2002 Resolution Number 02-1176 Appointment Seat: Public Education Vocational Rehabilitation Workforce Innovation Public Assistance Appointee: Nora Hendrix Cynthia Gaber Darryl Rutz Jennifer Lange PASSED AND ADOPTED this 29th day of October, 2002. THIS ADMINISTRATIVE ACT SHALL BECOME EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY. /22- 1,1111v_,?�PRISCILLA A. THO PSON CITY CLERK1 1 Board appointments are administrative acts which do not require the Mayor's signature nor the City Attorney's review and approval. 02-1176 CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA 145 INTER -OFFICE MEMORANDUM TO: Honorable Mayor and Members City of Miami Commission FROM : Car os A. Gimenez City Manager RECOMMENDATION: DATE: OVT 2 1 2002 FILE: SUBJECT: Appointments to the South Florida Workforce Board REFERENCES: City Commission Agenda ENCLOSURES: October 29, 2002 It is recommended that the City Commission adopt the attached resolution approving the appointment of four (4) members to South Florida Workforce Board from the mandated categories. BACKGROUND: At its last three (3) meetings, the City Commission has expressed its concerns regarding the City's appointments to the restructured organization of the South Florida Workforce Board. The enclosed memorandum and attachment were forwarded to the Administration by the Executive Director of the South Florida Workforce Board regarding the City's appointments. This 45 member Board, which functions as the Region's workforce investment board under the federal Workforce Investment Act (WIA) of 1998, is comprised of members from the private sector, economic development agencies, organized labor, educational institutions, local elected officials and State agencies appointed by the five member jurisdictions in the Consortium (Cities of Miami, Hialeah and Miami Beach and the counties of Miami -Dade and Monroe). Under the formula in the Agreement among the Consortium Members, the City of Miami has fifteen (15) appointments to the South Florida Workforce Board. Each Member is appointed for a two-year term and terms expire on a staggered basis. To implement and maintain the staggered appointment concept, the City has been instructed to divide its original appointments between one-year and two-year terms. As per the -formula in the Agreement the City of Miami must approve the following seats as its appointments to the South Florida Workforce Board: Private Sector Ten (10) Seats Public Education One (1) Seat Labor One (1) Seat Agency for Workforce Innovation One (1) Seat Vocational Rehabilitation One (1) Seat Public Assistance One (1) Seat 02-1176 The Administration has been working with Commissioner Winton's staff to develop a pool of nominees for City Commission consideration. Under the South Florida Workforce representation format, the City of Miami's representatives include five (5) specifically designated category seats. It is recommended that the City Commission approve these seats to the one (1) year terms. The South Florida Workforce Board has forwarded the following nominees for these seats: Public Education Nora Hendrix — This seat is designated to Miami - Dade Community College (MDCC). The President of MDCC nominated Ms. Hendrix to this seat. She is the District Dean for Workforce Development and the South Florida Workforce Board reports that she has been a very strong and active Board member on the committee and Board levels. Labor Bill Riley — This seat for organized labor was previously confirmed by the City Commission. Agency for Workforce Innovation Darryl Rutz — This is a mandated seat for the State Agency for Workforce Innovation, where Mr. Rutz serves as the AWI Liaison for the Region. The South Florida Workforce Board reports that he has been an active participant on Programmatic, Welfare -to -Work, Youth and Finance Committees. Mr. Rutz has also headed two (2) key task forces and attended the Executive Committee meetings. Vocational Rehabilitation Cynthia Gaber - This is also a State mandated seat. Ms. Gaber serves as the District Director for Vocational Rehabilitation. Public Assistance Jennifer Lange — This is another State mandated seat designated for the Department of Children and Families (DCF). The DCF has nominated Ms. Gaber for this seat. The South Florida Workforce Board reports that she has been an active participant at both the Board and Committee levels and is extremely knowledgeable and helpful. The Administration continues to work with Commissioner Winton's staff to identify appropriate candidates to represent the City in the Private Sector seats. Staff is working directly with the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce, Latin Chamber of Commerce and Miami Dade Chamber of Commerce to identify potential candidates to represent the City in the private sector seats. In addition, the Administration will meet with the each of the above recommended category 02-1176 appointees to ensure that these members are versed with the concerns of the City and needs of its residents. As you are aware, each appointee must be approved and nominated by one (1) of the chambers of commerce to be eligible for consideration. It is also possible for the City Commission to identify viable nominees whose names can be forwarded to the chambers for consideration through the standard eligibility process. It is recommended that the City Commission adopt the proposed resolution appointing four (4) members to South Florida Workforce Board from the mandated categories. Attachment 02--1176 u_i_UTI • � TO: Barbara Rodriguez City of Miami Assistant Director, Community Development FROM: Harriet Spivak Executive Director South Florida Workforce Board DATE: October 17, 2002 SUBJECT: Background Information on the Filling of Public Sector Seats on the South Florida Workforce Board As requested, attached is a summary of information that may be helpful to your Commission on the making of public sector appointments to the South Florida Workforce Board. Please feel free to contact me if there you need additional information or clarification. Attachment 2-1176 THE FILLING OF SEATS ON THE SOUTH FLORIDA WORKFORCE BOARD Regional Workforce Development Boards, also referred to as Workforce Investment Boards, are established and regulated by federal and State legislation. The legislative mandates include the following: The Boards must have a majority of members that represent the business community, and the Board Chair must be a private sector member. Private sector members are to be business owners, CEOs, or other executives with optimum policymaking or hiring authority, and must be nominated by business or trade organizations. The private sector membership is to reflect businesses with employment opportunities that reflect the employment opportunities of the local area. Boards must also include public sector representation from the following mandated categories: -Economic development -Public Education -Private Education (State legislation specifies types of private proprietary entities to be included) -Organized Labor (State legislation specifies 3 seats per Board for Labor) -Community Based Organizations (CBOs) including CBOs that serve the disabled and veterans -Other Mandated One -Stop Partners, including state agencies (the Florida Department of Children and Families, the Agency for Workforce Innovation, the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation, the public housing authorities, senior community service employment program providers, providers of federally funded employment and training programs for migrants and seasonal farmworkers, providers of federally funded employment and training programs for native Americans, entities that administer community service funding, and Job Corps) Nominations: The legislation specifies, for certain categories of representation such as private sector seats, labor seats, and education seats, who may nominate individuals for consideration for appointment as Board Members. Appointments: Appointments to the Board are to be made by the "chief local elected official" of each Region designated as a service area. The Governor designated Miami -Dade and Monroe Counties as one of Florida's 24 Regions. The Miami- Dade/Monroe Region has had a consortium of governments in place since approximately 1978, the South Florida Employment and Training Consortium (SFETC), to administer employment and training funding. SFETC is made up of Miami -Dade and Monroe Counties and the Cities of Miami, Hialeah, and Miami Beach. The Consortium has remained in place as the entity that represents the "Local Elected Officials" of this Region for purposes of relating to the workforce system and has been designated by the workforce board as the administrative entity and fiscal agent for the South Florida Workforce Board. How the five governments relate to each other for purposes of performing their functions as the "Local Elected Officials" and as the administrative entity/fiscal agent for the workforce system are governed by: (a) the Consortium Agreement executed by the five governments, and (b) clarifying memoranda that elaborate specifics of such functions as making appointments to the South Florida Workforce Board. By agreement among the five governments, the appointments to be made to the Board are divided among the five governments. When the Board was made up of 64 seats, the 64 seats were divided among the 62--11'6 five members as per agreement of their representatives to the SFETC Board, roughly in proportion to the amount of liability each government accepted in the Consortium Agreement. Now that the Board has been reduced to a 45 -member Board, the seats have been redistributed proportionally, again by agreement among the representatives to the SFETC Board. The City of Miami, which has accepted 33.3 % of the system's liability, has been apportioned 33.3 % of the appointments to the Board, i.e., 15 of the 45 seats. The City of Miami has been apportioned a disproportionally high percentage of the Board's private sector seats (10 out of the 24 private sector seats, or 41.67% of the private sector seats). The City of Miami has been apportioned five public sector seats which include four appointments for which there are not alternative choices provided for the City's selection process. These public sector seats include the following: The Public Assistance seat, which the Board's by-laws indicate is to be held by a nominee of the Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF) who has substantial decisionmaking authority at DCF locally. DCF has nominated Jennifer Lange who oversees the units at DCF that administer the welfare transition, food stamp, and medicaid programs. The Vocational Rehabilitation seat, which the Board's by-laws indicate is to be held by the CEO or other nominee of the Florida Department of Education/Vocational Rehabilitation Services (VR) who has substantial decisionmaking authority at VR locally. VR has nominated Cynthia Gaber, the District Director. The Public Employment Service seat, which the Board's by-laws indicate is to be held by a nominee of the Florida Agency for Workforce Innovation (AWI) who can represent the agency locally. The Agency for Workforce Innovation has nominated Darryl Rutz who is the agency's Regional Liaison, overseeing all matters that relate to Agency funding. A Public Education seat representing the Region's community colleges, which the Board's by-laws indicate is to be held by a ' community college nominee who has substantial decisionmaking authority and can represent the local community colleges. By agreement among the Consortium representatives, the Region's two community colleges are to be represented by Miami -Dade Community College (MDCC), and MDCC has nominated Nora Hemandez-Hendrix, the MDCC District Dean for Workforce Development. The fifth public sector seat that has been assigned to the City of Miami is one of three Organized Labor seats on the Board and the City may select from among Labor nominees submitted by the AFLrCIO in Miami -Dade County. (The Carpenter's Union has submitted a nominee who has been appointed by Monroe County to fill its Labor seat.) A question has been raised -at the Commission as to why the mandated public sector representatives must be appointed by the jurisdictions. The answer is that the legislation requires that individuals nominated to the Board must be appointed by the "Chief Local Elected Official'. In most Regions, this is a single 02-IJ�6 official who would make appointments to fill all of the Board's seats. In our Region the seats have been apportioned among the five appointing jurisdictions. Of the 21 public sector appointments to the Board (which tend to involve few if any alternative selections for appointments), only 5 (23.801c) have been assigned to the City. Which public sector appointments would be made by each of the jurisdictions was agreed to by their representatives to the Consortium Board. 02.1176