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Community Development Agency <br />www.santa-ana.org/community-development <br />Item # 8 <br />City of Santa Ana <br />20 Civic Center Plaza, Santa Ana, CA 92701 <br /> Staff Report <br />February 18, 2025 <br />TOPIC: Workforce Development Board Bylaws <br />AGENDA TITLE <br />Workforce Development Board Bylaws <br />RECOMMENDED ACTION <br />Receive and file. <br />GOVERNMENT CODE §84308 APPLIES: No <br />DISCUSSION <br />At its regularly scheduled meeting held on January 16, 2025, the Workforce <br />Development Board (WDB) approved revisions to its bylaws by a vote of 13:0:7 (Araujo, <br />Hernandez, Lopez, Milatovich, Miller, Perez, Sams absent). <br />The City’s Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act grant undergoes an annual <br />compliance review conducted by the Employment Development Department, <br />Compliance Review Office (CRO). On January 11, 2024, the CRO issued a Corrective <br />Action citing the WDB bylaws were not consistent with recently updated federal <br />guidance. The CRO requested the bylaws be amended to include the following: <br />•Process to notify the chief elected official of a WDB member vacancy to ensure a <br />prompt nominee. <br />•The proxy and alternative designee process followed when a WDB member is <br />unable to attend a meeting and assigns a designee. <br />•The use of technology, such as phone and Web-based meetings, used to <br />promote WDB member participation. <br />•The process to ensure WDB members actively participate in convening the <br />workforce development system’s stakeholders. <br />Should this not be addressed, the state Workforce Development Board could <br />recommend the Governor withdraw the City’s designation as a WDB and funding. Staff <br />worked with the City Attorney’s office to draft revisions to the bylaws, which were <br />approved by the WDB at their January 16, 2025 meeting (Exhibit 1). <br />