Title
Resolution to Approve the Seventh Amended Charter Agreement of the Hampton Roads Workforce Council
Purpose
PURPOSE/BACKGROUND:
In December 2019, all the Local Elected Officials (LEO’s) who serve on either the Greater Peninsula Workforce Board (Gloucester County, Hampton, James City County, Newport News, Poquoson, Williamsburg, and York County) and Hampton Roads Workforce Council (Chesapeake, Franklin, Isle of Wight County, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Southampton County, Suffolk, and Virginia Beach) were asked to support the reorganization and merger of the two workforce boards so that they could better serve the needs of both employers and job seekers in the greater Hampton Roads area. All fifteen LEO’s approved. Subsequently, the Governor of Virginia officially designated the Hampton Roads Workforce Development Area to include those 15 cities and counties. The purpose of this resolution is to approve the Seventh Amended Charter Agreement of the Hampton Roads Workforce Council, the primary purpose of which is to incorporate those localities formerly comprising the Greater Peninsula Workforce Board into the Hampton Roads Workforce Council.
Discussion:
“Workforce and Talent Development” is the most important issue that employers discuss and that potential employers express interest in before moving into our area. As both the Greater Peninsula Workforce Board and the Hampton Roads Workforce Council have made great strides in partnership opportunities, strategic consolidation that adjusts the focus from what they can do together as allied organizations (negotiating back and forth) to a more structured and coherent single organizational approach that can address workforce development issues across the entire region, was inevitable, and has now come to fruition. The City of Virginia Beach will serve as the grant recipient and the Hampton Roads Workforce Council will serve as the fiscal agent for the new workforce area based upon the consensus achieved among th...
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