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Iowa
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The Iowa Workforce Development Board
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Board Announcements
The State Workforce
Development Board will be conducting a conference call on Thursday,
September 25, at 10:30 a.m. to discuss IWD's proposed budget and
legislative proposals. The call should last about an hour.
Call - In Instructions:
1. The dial in number is 1-866-685-1580
2. The conference code is 7366713599
3. At the time of the call, dial the 1-866-685-1580 number. When
prompted, dial the conference code followed by the pound symbol (#).
The next Board meeting will be on Friday, December 5, from around
9:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. at the Des Moines Workforce Center, 430 E.
Grand Avenue.
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PowerPoint Presentation of Joint
IDED/IWD Board Meeting (306 KB PDF)
Iowa Fringe Benefit Profile
(Requires Adobe Reader)
Iowa Workforce Development and its Board of
Directors worked in partnership with the Employers’ Council of Iowa to
contact a random sample of local employers across all industrial
classifications and employment ranges to provide information on the
benefit packages offered by businesses in the State of Iowa. The
information gathered provides a detailed analysis of employer-provided
benefits. Consequently, this information will assist businesses,
community leaders, and workers to make better informed decisions on
expansion initiatives, community development projects, and job
offerings. |
Legislation was passed in May 1996 to create a new
state department, Iowa Workforce Development, to streamline employment
and training programs. The Iowa Workforce Development Board was
created in the legislation. In 1999 the Board assumed the
responsibilities of the State Workforce Investment Board under the
federal Workforce Investment Act (WIA) signed into law in August 1998.
Governor Thomas J. Vilsack stated, "With a
sense of hope and excitement we enter a new century with the development
of a new economy not built solely on the strength of our bodies, but more
on the power of our intellect. Iowa is poised to take real
advantage of that new economy and to offer businesses and industries
that locate here the promise of long-term profitability built on the
quality of our workers and our long-term investment in their continued
education."
The duties of the Iowa Workforce Development Board
include, but are not limited to, the following activities: the
development and implementation of a twenty-year comprehensive workforce
development plan; the preparation of a five-year strategic plan; the
development of evaluation methods; the establishment of guidelines for
the awarding of grants; the review of grants awarded by Iowa Workforce
Development; the recommendation of departmental usage of federal
funding; and the adoption of administrative
rules recommended by the director of Iowa Workforce Development.
The Board members consists
of nine voting members. The voting members represent employers,
employees and a nonprofit workforce development organization. The
current board chair is Ken Sagar and the vice-chair is Norma Schmoker.
The list of Iowa Workforce Development Board
voting members include:
Employer Representatives:
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Kimberline Ingram, Wells
Fargo Bank, Des Moines
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Norma Schmoker, Founder and former owner of
Quality Plus/Essar, Inc., Fort Dodge
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Kenneth Anderson,
Marshalltown Area Chamber of Commerce
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Karen Vanderhoef, Iowa
City
Employee Representatives:
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Ken Sagar, Iowa Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO, Des Moines (Statewide labor organization
representative)
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Roger Grobstich -
Hiawatha, Retail, Wholesale & Department Store Union-United Food &
Commercial Union RWDSU-UFCW
(Statewide labor organization representative)
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David Owen, Plumbers and
Steamfitters, Local #33, JATC
(Worker Training Program Representative)
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Jerome Amos, Jr., John
Deere Waterloo Works and the United Auto Workers Union (UAW),
(Labor Management Council Representative)
Non-Profit Workforce Development Organization
Representative
Ex-officio Non-voting Members:
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Nancy Williams, American
Institute of Business, Des Moines
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Christy Twait -
University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls
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Greg Lewis,
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Des
Moines
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Steve Ovel, Kirkwood Community College, Cedar
Rapids
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Senator William Dotzler, Waterloo
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Representative David
Jacoby, Coralville
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Representative Tami J.
Wiencek, Waterloo
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Senator Petricia Ward,
West Des Moines
Iowa Workforce Development
(IWD) and the State Workforce Development Board co-sponsored a one-day
training session on August 17 on the roles and responsibilities for
those who oversee the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) services and
programs in Iowa. Over 90 participants attended the training session
representing Regional Workforce Investment Board (RWIB) members, local
elected officials and employment and training staff.
Featured
speakers at the training included Stacy O’Keefe, U.S. Department of
Labor Regional Office in Chicago, Tony Dietsch and Kelly Taylor, IWD,
Gary Dickey Jr., general counsel with the Governor’s Office. Information
discussed at the training included federal and Iowa workforce
legislation, Iowa laws that govern all boards and commission such as
open meetings, conflict of interest, open records requests, attendance,
etc. and financial oversight as required by the Regional Workforce
Investment Boards (RWIBs) and local elected officials in the
administration of the WIA program.
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