MassHire Boston Workforce Board meeting

- Approval of April 24, 2019 minutes

-Finance report

Vote: To elect PIC Board of Directors and delegate nonprofit governance authority

Vote: To elect PIC Officers – Chair, President, Treasurer, and Clerk

Vote: To delegate Workforce Development Board authority to the PIC Board of Directors, as necessary between meetings of the full Workforce Board

Vote: To expand Boston priority of service in accord with WIOA sec.134 (c) (3) (E) by lifting the Boston restriction requiring that all priority customers be verified as low-income.

Vote: To establish a local priority (10%) for individual and family income of 257% of Federal Poverty Guidelines and Lower Living Standard Income Levels

-Fiscal agent and board activities

Vote: To set aside 19.5% of the total WIOA FY 2020 allocation for fiscal agent and board activities ($651,022), while maintaining a 70/30 split between the two organizations (OWD and PIC)

-Equalizing low-income adult and dislocated worker program funding

Vote: To transfer $169,631 from adult low-income to dislocated worker funds to achieve a 50/50 split between them

-Dividing adult program funding between training (ITAs) and career center services

Vote: To establish a split of  the low income and dislocated worker funding with 50% allocated for career center services ($742,286), 48.3% for ITAs ($717,286), and 1.7%  ($25,000) for the industry sector and career pathway work as required of workforce board under WIOA)

-Wagner-Peyser funding

Vote: to allocate $225,000 from our Wagner-Peyser funds (1) to continue to level fund the two existing Access Points at $100,000 each and (2) to assign $25,000 for the industry sector and career pathway work

-Dividing WIOA funding between the two career centers

Vote: to establish a 53/47 split between MassHire Downtown Boston Career Center and MassHire Boston Career Center for all core funding

-Youth programs                                                                         

Vote:  To approve the Youth Council’s FY 20 funding recommendations. Specifically to fund nine programs across total eight organizations – four alternative education programs, four employment programs, and one postsecondary job training program.