Commissioners press for public dashboards as staff say workforce programs boost earnings
Commissioners asked for clearer, public-facing outcome metrics for workforce development; county staff said they measure participant outcomes and aim to make dashboards public eventually while ensuring privacy and data practice compliance.
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Commissioner Edelson and others urged the administration to make workforce and disparity-elimination outcome data publicly accessible in a dashboard that shows baselines, targets and annual progress. Administration staff said workforce programs track experience and earnings at intake and exit, and that outcomes show an average wage increase for participants — roughly a $9 hourly increase in some measures — but that some internal dashboards are not yet public due to data-practice constraints.
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