MassHire Boston Workforce Board meeting
There will be a MassHire Boston Workforce Board Meeting on November 17 at 8:30 a.m.
Discussion Topics
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Introductions and updates (10 minutes)
- Approval of June 24 minutes: Ken Montgomery
- Finance report: Darren Donovan
- PIC strategic planning process: Neil Sullivan
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Governance (15 minutes)
- Mayoral transition, PIC Council/ MassHire Workforce Board appointments
- Annual PIC Board of Directors and Officers election: Ken Montgomery
Vote: To elect PIC Board of Directors and delegate nonprofit governance authority
Vote: To elect PIC Officers – Chair, President, Treasurer, and Clerk
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Economic Conditions in Massachusetts and Boston (20 min. presentation, 10 min. discussion)
Mary A. Burke, Senior Economist and Policy Advisor
New England Public Policy Center
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
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Workforce Development (25 minutes)
- Mass Advantage:: Jim Whelan
- Healthcare Careers Consortium: MJ Ryan
- Career Center: Access Points and additional funding: Harneen Chernow
- Vote: To approve the Charlestown Adult Education Program as a career center Access Point in partnership with the MassHire Boston Career Center at Morgan Memorial Goodwill and to allocate $50,000 for this purpose and to distribute additional state line item funding, as recommended by the PIC Workforce Development Committee (see memo).
- FY 2023 WIOA Youth Principles Michael O’Neill
- Vote: To approve new policy principles for the distribution of WIOA Youth program funding to be incorporated into a new RFP for FY 2023 to be released in January as recommended by the PIC Youth Council (see memo).
Regional planning and ARPA funding: Angela McCabe, Neil Sullivan
- 2021 summer jobs recap and video (10 minutes) Joe McLaughlin, 2022 Mayor’s Summer Jobs Campaign