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Capital Region and Green workforce boards outline consolidation plan to preserve local services and expand resources
Summary
Leaders from the Capital Region and Green workforce development boards presented a plan to consolidate administrative local workforce areas, saying the change would keep frontline services local while creating administrative efficiency and unlocking additional funds under state formulas.
Amanda Parks, executive director of the Green Workforce Development Board, and Brian Williams, executive director of the Capital Region Workforce Development Board, asked the Greene County Economic Forum & Tourism Committee on Monday to support an administrative consolidation of local workforce areas intended to precede federal reauthorization and streamline services across neighboring counties.
Parks framed the proposal as a locally driven approach to an expected federal change. “The congressional act that funds our system is going through reauthorization,” she said, and local boards are “taking the initiative where we are, and be really the building blocks for that conversation in your state.” She said both workforce boards have voted to move forward and emphasized that “what this will do on…
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