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Riverbank council moves to place termination of Opportunity Stanislaus MOU on next agenda after members criticize outreach
Summary
Councilors questioned local visibility and Riverbank-specific outcomes from a $25,000-per-year MOU with Opportunity Stanislaus. After a lengthy exchange and a presentation of activity metrics by the agency's CEO, council voted 4-0-1 to place a termination item on the next meeting agenda; the mayor abstained.
Riverbank City Councilors voted to place consideration of terminating the city's memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Opportunity Stanislaus on the council's next meeting agenda after several members said the countywide economic-development nonprofit's work has not shown clear, Riverbank-specific returns.
At the meeting, Dave White, chief executive officer of Opportunity Stanislaus, reviewed services the organization provides to the city and to local businesses. White described workforce and business-support activities and presented itemized measures of activity and estimated value to Riverbank over the past year: he said Opportunity Stanislaus' talent-development team recorded 106 hours of direct work for Riverbank employers with an estimated return-on-investment (ROI) of about $11,900 for recruitment,…
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