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Officials present $34 million federal apprenticeship grant to joint education committees
Summary
Cody Waits of Arkansas Workforce Connections presented to the joint committees on Jan. 6 details of a $34 million federal apprenticeship program grant to Arkansas administered through the Office of Skills Development.
Cody Waits, executive director of Arkansas Workforce Connections in the Arkansas Department of Commerce, presented information on Jan. 6 about a $34 million federal grant awarded to the State of Arkansas to support a National Apprenticeship Program administered through the Office of Skills Development.
Waits described the grant as a federal award to the state; the meeting transcript records the size of the grant ($34 million) and the administering office but does not include a line-item breakdown of how the funds will be allocated, the number of apprentices or employers to be served, or a timeline for implementation. No formal committee vote or action on the grant was recorded in the meeting minutes supplied.
The presentation was delivered as part of the committee’s informational agenda. Committee members did not record motions or follow-up tasks on the record contained in the transcript.
