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Minutes
Kansas Workforce Investment
Partnership Council
Leadership Team
August 2 and 3, 2001
Minutes
Members in attendance
in Salina for this meeting were Rick Beyer, Val DeFever, Jerry Hiatt,
Marie Mareda, Dwayne Peaslee, and Vice-Chair Gerald Cook. Staff Barb Reavis
was present.
Guests in attendance
August 2 were Pat Altwegg, KS Restaurant & Hospitality; Dale Barnum,
SRS; David Brennan, Heartland Works; Bob Courtney, Lcoal Area IV; Doug
Ewing, KDHR; Glenn Fondoble, Westco; Sarah Gilbert, City of Wichita; Linda
Gonzalez, KDHR; Nancy Guthrie, Westco; Steve Jack, KDHR; Kris Kitchen,
Heartland Works; Keith Lawing, LWIA IV; Robert Lininger, SWKAAA; George
McAtee, KDHR; Dave McEachern, KDHR; John McLoughlin, KDHR; Mike O'Hara,
KDHR; Paul Osborn, KBOR; Deidra Powell-Franklin, KS. Hauge Alternative
Center; Vicky Romig, KDHR; Sheree Rueb, Senior Work Experience Program;
; Rebecca Scott, Cowley County WDC; Linda Sorrell, SRS; Linda Sours, Ft.
Scott CC; Jim Stowell, KDHR; Terry Young, KDHR
Guests in attendance
August 3 were Dale Barnum, SRS; Doug Ewing, KDHR; Randy Fisher, KCDC;
Linda Gonzalez, KDHR; Audra Powell-Frankl; Mike O'Hara, KDHR; Linda Sorrell,
Workforce Alliance; Jim Stowell, Local Area V
August 2
Cook called the meeting to order at 1:05 p.m. Self-introductions
were offered. Cook gave a brief background on KWIP and State Set Aside
funds and explained the process that would be followed for the next two
half-days. Presenters, the entity they represented, and the focus of the
presentation follows:
|
Time
|
Name
|
Representing
|
Stated
Concern
|
|
8/2/01
1:05
|
Gerald
Cook |
Call
to order |
|
|
1:10
|
Bob
Courtney |
Local
Area IV |
Local
Areas are best suited to allocate funds and implement systems; need
additional money for system design; empowering one stops |
|
1:25
|
Paul
Osborn |
General
Education Diploma Program |
GED
testing costs $57/person; funds are needed to subsidize |
|
1:30
|
Steve
Jack |
KDHR
suggestions |
One-stop
delivery system; marketing; competitive grants for older workers;
youth, displaced homemakers |
|
1:50
|
Doug
Ewing |
Local
Area V |
Pilot
project for incumbent workers to help them get GEDs |
|
2:00
|
Break |
|
|
|
2:10
|
Pat
Altwegg |
KS
Restaurant & Hospitality Assn. |
Build
careers through a statewide food sanitation program in the foodservice
industry |
|
3:00
|
Jack
Wempe |
Board
of Regents |
FYI0Regents
activity; trying to raise visibility of technical schools; will hold
hearing in September and October to learn about workforce problems |
|
3:20
|
Robert
Lininger |
Southwest
KS Area Agency on Aging |
Home
Health Aide Retention Program trust fund for trainees to encourage
employee retention |
|
3:35
|
Dwayne
Peaslee |
Kansas
Apprenticeship Council |
Employment
Consultant to promote and develop registered apprenticeships for females
in non-traditional employment |
|
3:40
|
Margie
Phelps |
Dept.
of Corrections |
Position
to develop a program to address job preparedness of offenders |
|
3:55
|
Glenn
Fondoble |
Local
Area I |
Capacity
building, sustainability and continuous imprevement in one-stops through
local boards |
|
4:15
|
Gerald
Cook |
Adjourn |
|
|
8/3/01
8:35
|
Gerald
Cook |
Call to order
Self introductions of Leadership Team
Define the day
|
|
|
8:40
|
Randy
Fisher |
KS
Commission on Disability Concerns |
Incentive
Funds for one-stops to increase architectural and program accessibility |
|
8:50
|
Julie
Govert-Walter |
Flint
Hills Area Agency on Aging |
Services
to older workers; partnerships with one-stops; senior mentors |
|
9:20
|
Sally
Luallen |
Senior
Employment Program |
Funds
for five older worker programs in Kansas |
|
9:45
|
Bonnie
Duden |
Early
Childhood Apprenticeship |
Funds
to expand and continue the early childhood apprenticeship program |
|
10:05
|
Linda
Sorrell |
Local
Area IV |
Reiterated
Local Board responsibility and function |
|
10:15
|
Barb
Reavis |
Brief
description of written submissions |
- Kris Kitchen,
Local Area II submitted a form marked Capacity Building. Since
Kitchen was present, members asked her to speak. Kitchen stated
that Local Areas are best suited to determine the needs but if
the money were divided to Local Areas, a plan would be in order
- Jack Strukel,
KWIP member, had offered written support to assist older worker
programs
- Reavis offered
a suggestion that skills of front line workers in one-stops should
be assessed and training offered for building successful competencies.
|
Cook led a discussion
among members about the State Set Aside, KWIP's role in distribution,
centralization and decentralized services, and insuring all the money
doesn't go to administration only. Reavis is to meet with Armand Corpolongo
about the proposals and the allowable expenses under WIA regulations.
She will forward something to Leadership Team members prior to the meeting
in Emporia on Friday, August 10.
Because a question
was raised during a presentation about $400,000 in State Set Aside from
Welfare to Work, Linda Ramirez Gonzalez agreed to present at the September
28 KWIP meeting on the program, including local area status.
Cook adjourned
the meeting at 10:55 a.m.
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