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Commission warns $6 million workforce-development grant may miss vulnerable residents
Summary
Members raised concerns that a $6 million state grant to refurbish a building and relocate the college’s workforce development office lacks plans to reach low-income residents, address student housing and food insecurity, or coordinate with Micron-related regional efforts.
Commission members reviewed the context and community implications of a recent $6,000,000 grant awarded to refurbish a building and relocate a college-run workforce development office and said the proposal risks benefiting the college more than the county residents it purports to serve.
Lehi, commission member, described how the college president wrote the RFP and secured the $6 million to refurbish a building behind a downtown location; the grant included a plan to move the college’s workforce development staff into that space. “They responded to a grant and got $6,000,000 to refurbish that building,” Lehi said.
Commissioners criticized the region’s…
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