19F - WIA STRATEGIC PLAN 2013-2017

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STANDARDS: ADMINISTRATION Introduction and Overview The State Standards governing Board Administration require that the WIB: • Membership meets all legal requirements (WIA Section 117(b), SB 293) and is representative of the community Meets other required WIA elements (sections 117(h) and 212(b), SB698) • Continuously reviews performance of its programs and initiatives, and has a strategy for encouraging and ensuring continuous improvement. • Transparently communicates the results of its efforts with the community. Except for verifying past performance, this Section requires relatively little new evidence. It draws on examples from prior sections and in its Appendices provides information to address many of the elements of these requirements. We also provide additional evidence and argument to suggest that the Santa Ana WIB not only meets the required standards, surpasses them in order to create an open, committed, and innovative presence in Santa Ana. The Santa Ana WIB is a local and regional leader in workforce improvement. It encourages the businesses development and business practices that form labor demand matrix. Activities In Support of Excellent WIB Administration The WIB meets all legal WIA requirements as follows: Section 2 and 3 and the By -Laws and WIB materials in the Appendices show that Santa Ana plans its recruitment of new members in a way that responds to perceived needs. • Labor constitutes 17% of the composition of the WIB. We have shown above that the WIB both monitors and is responsive to the needs and opportunities of the One -Stop WORK Center, and that the WIB's committees reflect its activities in general. In specific, the WIB maintains an active Youth Council (its Youth Committee). The WIB's Employer and Customer Services Committee (its Business Services Committee) is tasked with constantly reviewing and updating the Business Service Plan and does so. The WIB also maintains an Oversight and Data Committee that both monitors the WORK Center One -Stop activities, but tracks regional data to determine and understand gaps in the skill base that need addressing. • The transparency of the WIB's activities is shown by its advertised and open regular meetings, and its ability to make its competition fair is shown by its CSUF and Chapman University contract of outside evaluation of the WIA grant programs. That contract(s) were competed through an RFP process that met City, State and Federal procurement standards, with expressed evaluation criteria. 55 19F -64