1998 Minnesota Statutes

     268.665 Workforce development council. 

    Subdivision 1.    Creation.  The governor's workforce 
 development council is created under the authority of the Job 
 Training Partnership Act, United States Code, title 29, section 
 1501, et seq.  Local workforce development councils are 
 authorized under the Job Training Partnership Act, United States 
 Code, title 29, section 1501 and the one stop career center 
 system. 

    Subd. 2.    Membership.  The governor's workforce 
 development council is composed of 33 members appointed by the 
 governor.  The members may be removed pursuant to section 
 15.059.  In selecting the representatives of the council, the 
 governor shall ensure that 50 percent of the members come from 
 nominations provided by local workforce councils.  Local 
 education representatives shall come from nominations provided 
 by local education to employment partnerships.  The 33 members 
 shall represent the following sectors:  

    (a) State agencies:  the following individuals shall serve 
 on the council:  

    (1) commissioner of the Minnesota department of economic 
 security; 

    (2) commissioner of the Minnesota department of children, 
 families, and learning; 

    (3) commissioner of the Minnesota department of human 
 services; and 

    (4) commissioner of the Minnesota department of trade and 
 economic development. 

    (b) Business and industry:  six individuals shall represent 
 the business and industry sectors of Minnesota. 

    (c) Organized labor:  six individuals shall represent labor 
 organizations of Minnesota. 

    (d) Community-based organizations:  four individuals shall 
 represent community-based organizations of Minnesota.  
 Community-based organizations are defined by the Job Training 
 Partnership Act as private nonprofit organizations that are 
 representative of communities or significant segments of 
 communities and that provide job training services, agencies 
 serving youth, agencies serving individuals with disabilities, 
 agencies serving displaced homemakers, union-related 
 organizations, and employer-related nonprofit organizations and 
 organizations serving nonreservation Indians and tribal 
 governments. 

    (e) Education:  six individuals shall represent the 
 education sector of Minnesota as follows:  

    (1) one individual shall represent local public secondary 
 education; 

    (2) one individual shall have expertise in design and 
 implementation of school-based service-learning; 

    (3) one individual shall represent post-secondary 
 education; 

    (4) one individual shall represent secondary/post-secondary 
 vocational institutions; 

    (5) the chancellor of the board of trustees of the 
 Minnesota state colleges and universities; and 

    (6) one individual shall have expertise in agricultural 
 education. 

    (f) Other:  two individuals shall represent other 
 constituencies including: 

    (1) units of local government; and 

    (2) applicable state or local programs. 

    The speaker and the minority leader of the house of 
 representatives shall each appoint a representative to serve as 
 an ex officio member of the council.  The majority and minority 
 leaders of the senate shall each appoint a senator to serve as 
 an ex officio member of the council.  After January 1, 1997, the 
 Minnesota director of the corporation for national service shall 
 also serve as an ex officio member.  

    (g) Appointment:  each member shall be appointed for a term 
 of three years from the first day of January or July immediately 
 following their appointment.  Elected officials shall forfeit 
 their appointment if they cease to serve in elected office.  

    (h) Members of the council are compensated as provided in 
 section 15.059, subdivision 3. 

    Subd. 3.    Purpose; duties.  The governor's workforce 
 development council shall replace the governor's job training 
 council and assume all of its requirements, duties, and 
 responsibilities, under the Job Training Partnership Act, United 
 States Code, title 29, section 1501, et seq.  Additionally, the 
 workforce development council shall assume the following duties 
 and responsibilities:  

    (a) Coordinate the development, implementation, and 
 evaluation of the statewide education and employment transitions 
 system under section 124D.46.  Beginning January 1, 1997, the 
 council shall also coordinate the development, implementation, 
 and evaluation of the Minnesota youth services programs under 
 sections 124D.39 to 124D.44, and the National and Community 
 Services Act of 1993, United States Code, title 42, section 
 12501, et seq.  

    (b) Review the provision of services and the use of funds 
 and resources under applicable federal human resource programs 
 and advise the governor on methods of coordinating the provision 
 of services and the use of funds and resources consistent with 
 the laws and regulations governing the programs.  For purposes 
 of this section, applicable federal and state human resource 
 programs mean the: 

    (1) Job Training Partnership Act, United States Code, title 
 29, section 1501, et seq.; 

    (2) Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology 
 Education Act, United States Code, title 20, section 2301, et 
 seq.; 

    (3) National and Community Service Act of 1993, United 
 States Code, title 42, section 12501, et seq.; 

    (4) Adult Education Act, United States Code, title 20, 
 section 1201, et seq.; 

    (5) Wagner-Peyser Act, United States Code, title 29, 
 section 49; 

    (6) Social Security Act, title IV, part F, (JOBS), United 
 States Code, title 42, section 681, et seq.; 

    (7) Food Stamp Act of 1977, United States Code, title 7, 
 section 6(d)(4), Food Stamp Employment and Training Program, 
 United States Code, title 7, section 2015(d)(4); 

    (8) programs defined in section 268.0111, subdivisions 4 
 and 5; and 

    (9) School to Work Opportunity Act of 1994, Public Law 
 Number 103-239.  

    Additional federal and state programs and resources can be 
 included within the scope of the council's duties if recommended 
 by the governor after consultation with the council. 

    (c) Review federal, state, and local education, 
 post-secondary, job skills training, and youth employment 
 programs, and make recommendations to the governor and the 
 legislature for establishing an integrated seamless system for 
 providing education, service-learning, and work skills 
 development services to learners and workers of all ages. 

    (d) Advise the governor on the development and 
 implementation of statewide and local performance standards and 
 measures relating to applicable federal human resource programs 
 and the coordination of performance standards and measures among 
 programs.  

    (e) Develop program guidelines and recommend grant approval 
 procedures to the department of children, families, and learning 
 for grants to local education and employment transition 
 partnerships, including implementation grants under section 
 124D.46, grants for youth apprenticeship programs under section 
 124D.47, and youth employer grants; and 

    (1) coordinate implementation of the education and 
 employment transitions system under section 124D.46; 

    (2) promote education and employment transitions programs 
 and knowledge and skills of entrepreneurship among employers, 
 workers, youth, and educators, and encourage employers to 
 provide meaningful work-based learning opportunities; 

    (3) evaluate and identify exemplary education and 
 employment transitions programs and provide technical assistance 
 to local partnerships to replicate the programs throughout the 
 state; 

    (4) establish a performance-based quality assurance system 
 for consistent statewide evaluation of the performance of the 
 education and employment transitions system at both the state 
 and local level; 

    (5) conduct an annual review of each local education and 
 employment transitions partnership to ensure it adequately meets 
 the quality assurance standards established as part of the state 
 quality assurance system; 

    (6) develop the methods to assess local partnership 
 effectiveness; 

    (7) annually publish a report on the findings of the 
 evaluations of each local education transitions partnership; 

    (8) promote knowledge and skills of entrepreneurship among 
 students in kindergarten through grade 12 by sharing information 
 about the ways new business development contributes to a strong 
 economy. 

    (f) Advise the governor on methods to evaluate applicable 
 federal human resource programs.  

    (g) Sponsor appropriate studies to identify human 
 investment needs in Minnesota and recommend to the governor 
 goals and methods for meeting those needs.  

    (h) Recommend to the governor goals and methods for the 
 development and coordination of a human resource system in 
 Minnesota.  

    (i) Examine federal and state laws, rules, and regulations 
 to assess whether they present barriers to achieving the 
 development of a coordinated human resource system. 

    (j) Recommend to the governor and to the federal government 
 changes in state or federal laws, rules, or regulations 
 concerning employment and training programs that present 
 barriers to achieving the development of a coordinated human 
 resource system. 

    (k) Recommend to the governor and to the federal government 
 waivers of laws and regulations to promote coordinated service 
 delivery. 

    (l) Sponsor appropriate studies and prepare and recommend 
 to the governor a strategic plan which details methods for 
 meeting Minnesota's human investment needs and for developing 
 and coordinating a state human resource system.  

    Subd. 4.    Subcommittees.  The governor's workforce 
 development council shall appoint an advisory subcommittee the 
 majority of whose members shall represent business and industry 
 to advise the council on the establishment of the statewide 
 education and employment transitions system.  The chair of the 
 workforce development council may establish subcommittees in 
 order to carry out the duties and responsibilities of the 
 council.  

    Subd. 5.    Staffing.  The department of economic 
 security must provide staff support to the Minnesota workforce 
 development council.  The department of economic security and 
 the department of children, families, and learning shall jointly 
 staff the education and employment transitions subcommittee and 
 its activity with the full council.  The support includes 
 professional, technical, and clerical staff necessary to perform 
 the duties assigned to the workforce development council.  The 
 council may ask for assistance from other units of state 
 government as it requires in order to fulfill its duties and 
 responsibilities.  

    Subd. 6.    Expiration.  The council expires immediately 
 if it is no longer required by federal law as a condition of 
 receiving federal funding, or if there is no federal funding for 
 the human resource programs within the scope of the council's 
 duties. 

    HIST: 1995 c 131 s 1; 1Sp1995 c 3 art 16 s 13; 1996 c 395 s 
 18; 1Sp1997 c 4 art 3 s 19; 1998 c 397 art 11 s 3; 1998 c 398 
 art 3 s 9,10