Transcript The Power of QE3 In Palm Beach County, Fla.

The Power of QE3
In Palm Beach County, Fla.
Quality Economic Development
Quality Education
Quality Employment
Palm Beach County Legislative
Delegation
January 31, 2007
Power of QE3
Bringing proactive coordination of economic
development, education and employment to ensure a
high quality workforce in Palm Beach County.
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Integrating collaborative delivery of services;
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Responding to business;
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Resulting in careers, not jobs
Power of QE3
A Blended Strategic Plan of the
Business Development Board (BDB),
Education Commission (EC) and
Workforce Alliance (WA) of Palm
Beach County
Power of QE3
QE3 Cross Functions:
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Economic Development
– BDB conducts aggressive marketing campaign locally
and nationally:
• recruit potential business with emphasis on
aerospace/engineering; agribusiness; bioscience; business
and financial services; communications and information
technology; and tourism, recreation, and entertainment;
• retain and grow local business needs through
communication with membership roster and outreach to
supporting services;
– WA partners with BDB to provide businesses with
employment-related training programs responsive to the
changing business environment.
- EC ensures seamless academic system to meet workforce
needs.
Power of QE3
QE3 Cross Functions:
Education
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EC facilitates the coordination of articulation
agreements among local public and private
education providers.
WA coordinates with EC and BDB to establish
complementary training strategies that match
trends in employment demands.
BDB utilizes EC and PACE Committee as
means to maintain ongoing communication of
needs and assistance.
Education institutions continue interinstitutional
articulation agreements to marshal education
resources that best produce the human capital
needs of business and industry.
Power of QE3
QE3 Cross Functions:
Employment
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WA helps develop the local talent pool and
provides customized employer services to meet
the changing needs of a demand-driven
employment market.
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BDB partners assists to identify sources of
training funds and in developing industry-specific
training programs.
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EC facilitates the data exchange of business and
employment needs with education counseling
and placement programs.
The Official Economic Development Organization for Palm Beach County
Services Provided to Relocating
Companies
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Confidential and comprehensive
Information on available land and existing buildings
Consulting on applicable county and state incentives
Research on communication, utility and transportation
service and rates
Access to labor and training programs
Introductions to local vendors and suppliers
Review of available housing and housing costs
Presentations on quality of life, recreation and cultural
amenities
Introductions to Port and Airport
Guidance on local and state licensing requirements
BDB Impact 2000-2005 – Kelly Smallridge
Jobs
Companies
Dev. Reg.
IRBs
Results
16,551
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16 cos.
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BDB Impact 2000-2005
Average wages
Primary & sec. jobs
Payrolls
Building demand
$47,413 (123% of
county aver.)
31,077
$1.4 billion+
3.9 million square feet
Signature Projects
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Scripps
Office Depot
Applied Card
LRP Publications
NABI
First NLC
Sources of Leads:
Enterprise Florida
State and county primary agency
Local businesses
National and International Ad Campaigns
Trade Shows
Trends and Challenges
Trends:
• Smaller projects, higher salaries
• Downsizing in corporate headquarters,
streamlining
• Outsourcing of jobs
• Call Centers going offshore
Challenges:
• Low inventory of available
commercial/industrial property
• Cost of land has escalated
• Attainable/Workforce Housing
2007 Legislative
Recommendations
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Replenish the $200 Million Innovation Fund
Encourage greater research opportunities for
businesses within Florida by developing a state
matching grant program to provide additional
dollars to businesses who participate in the
Federally funded Small Business Innovation
Research Program (SBIR).
Maintain economic incentives through Enterprise
Florida to match local efforts in attracting and
growing businesses in Florida that fall within
high needs clusters.
Workforce Alliance, Inc. is a private non-profit
organization chartered by the state of Florida to
create and oversee the workforce system in
Palm Beach County.
Our Mission is
…the workforce solution driving economic
growth
WORKFORCE ALLIANCE, INC.
• 2005-2006 served 94,487 persons
• Budget of nearly $19.5 million
• Majority of our dollars are training related:
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Employed Worker Training
Individual Training Programs
Professional Placement Network
Florida ReBuilds
WORKFORCE ALLIANCE, INC
Partnership with Educational Community
• Partner with the educational community to provide training
programs and curriculum to match business needs.
Current initiatives include:
– Biotech Training Program: $2.3 Million
– Partnering with Florida Atlantic University
– Everglades Restoration Project:
– Partnering with Palm Beach Community College and South Florida
Water Management District
– Florida ReBuilds
– Partnering with Palm Beach County employers in the construction
industry for skills upgrade
– Work Ready
– Trailblazers in the Federal Work Ready Certification Program to prepare
job seekers for employers
Professional and Business Services Gains the Most Jobs in
Palm Beach County
(December 2005-December 2006)
Manufacturing
Information
Total Government
Other Services
Financial Activities
Construction
Trade, Transportation, and Utilities
Education and Health Services
Leisure and Hospitality
Professional and Business Services
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Florida Agency for Workforce Innovation, Labor Market Statistics in cooperation with the
U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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2007 Legislative Recommendations
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Our request: $20 million in general revenue funds
to align targeted training and recruitment support
services for Florida businesses. The general
revenue funds would consist of:
Restoration of the $12 million in general revenue
funds (initially allocated for Florida reBuilds) as a
recurring budget item to support three focused
initiatives
Additional $8 million in non-recurring general
revenue to assist with the initiatives
The training and recruitment support initiatives
include:
Specific sector strategies in targeted industries (as
identified by Enterprise Florida) to assist
businesses with their immediate workforce needs;
2007 Legislative Recommendations
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Expansion of the CHOICE initiative to link Florida’s
schools with specific targeted industry
employment needs and opportunities; and,
Special grants focused on evolving the skills that
Florida businesses and workers need to compete
globally.
All three initiatives will require private sector match
and collaboration with local economic
development organizations and education
partners.
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Additionally, we request that all TANF funds
allocated to the Regional Workforce Boards retain
the same multiyear budget authority as the federal
funding.
Palm Beach County Education
Commission
QE3 the Leadership Equation
Leadership Palm Beach
County
January 31, 2007
Palm Beach County Education Commission
Vision
The Education Commission is comprised of
business leaders, education professionals, and
interested citizens who have ONE goal: raising
student achievement by improving all parts of Palm
Beach County’s educational system and
strengthening collective services from pre-natal
programs through post secondary education and job
preparation activities.
Palm Beach County Education Commission
Seamless Approach
Linking disconnected social agencies,
educational institutions, and job preparation
organizations to each other and the people
they serve to support the success of children
and families in Palm Beach County birth
through work.
Palm Beach County Education Commission
3 Major Goal Areas
 Child Readiness
 Student Achievement and Learning
Environment
 Skilled Work Force
Collaboration
The great secret of successful collaboration is
this: The only agreement you have to have is
on what you are all going to do. That’s it. You
have to agree on actions. You don’t have to
bring the visions and missions of your
organizations into alignment. Usually, you don’t
even have to bring your strategies into
alignment. So long as you can find an
operational overlap, you can forge a successful
Michael Gilbert, April 2005
collaboration.
A Practical Approach to Collaboration
2007 Legislative Recommendations
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A. Career/Vocational Education
Consolidate 28 interinstitutional articulation agreement
process into statewide agreement among school districts,
community colleges and universities for dual enrollment and
early entry; allow local supplemental agreements for
program exceptions that are unique or of high importance to
local areas;
Require update of state course code directory to include
correlation of high rigor career/vocational courses to meet
core content requirements;
Require all community colleges and universities to accept
statewide dual enrollment credits of “C” or higher, regardless
of awarding institution;
change recency of employment from 12-weeks within last 3
years to last 6 years to allow alternative teacher certification
for career education instructors;
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Allow vocational-certified instructors to teach equivalent core
content courses with temporary certification until passage of
content area exam (e.g., Business Ed-language arts);
Restore program cost factor for middle school vocational
education and reinstate higher cost factor for grades 9-12;
Restore state funding for 7th period in order to meet more
rigorous graduation and major/minor counseling
requirements;
Expand worker’s compensation insurance age-waiver for
“Habitat for Humanity” (s.489.103, F.S.) to high school career
education programs as school districts retain liability;
Extend 100% Bright Futures’ funding for Gold Seal
Vocational Scholarships from current 75% level;
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B. Postsecondary Vocational Education
(PBCC – More recommendations under PBCC Presentation)
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Waive out-of-state tuition for
employees of businesses moving into
Florida within a year and who need
updated job training;
Provide scholarship funding on a
financial needs basis for PSAV
programs;
Closing Remarks
Q&A
PBSD – 2007 Legislative Priorities
Top Priority Issues
High School Reform and Career Academies
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Assure implementation of curricular pathways for
career education that provides for core course
crossover credit between academic and career
programs with such credit being recognized by higher
education institutions; establish review of all
secondary curricula for alignment to the 16 national
US Department of Labor occupational clusters;
provide for statewide articulation agreements for
school districts, community colleges and universities
so that dual enrollment credit will transfer to all state
high education institutions;
Streamline state certification requirements to assure
business/industry-based professionals can be
employed as career and technical education
teachers;
PBSD – 2007 Legislative Priorities
– Restore career education funding for middle schools and
restore 1998-99 high school cost factors; reinstate
funding for the 7th period day in order for students to
meet the intent of A++ (HB7087) legislation passed in
2006;
– Eliminate glitch that allows a student to count both a core
content course and its make-up course as two credits,
one core and one elective, but continue previous course
accrual wherein a student may retake a failed or Dgraded core course and get a single credit for the one
with the higher passing grade; and
– Remove worker’s compensation barrier precluding high
school students from interning in certain industries, such
as construction, and allow a school district-based
responsibility, e.g., the current exception for Habitat for
Humanity.
PBSD – 2007 Legislative Priorities
School Construction Costs
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Continue the increase in the current per pupil station
caps for school construction costs to reflect real
market cost increases in steel and labor;
Revise the state’s “Classrooms First” formula to
become FTE-based so that constitutional class size
space requirements can be met in all school districts;
Fund costs for constructing or retrofitting schools as
hurricane shelters which require portable power,
potable water and increased protection against higher
windspeeds; and
Restore use of local two-mill capital funds for district
vehicles, operating system computer software
purchases and leases, and property/casualty
insurance.
PBSD – 2007 Legislative Priorities
Florida Education Finance Program (FEFP)
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Fully fund fifth year of Class Size Reduction (CSR) in
addition to new funds to meet student enrollment
growth, fixed and inflationary cost increases, and
flexibility to meet local needs including salary
increases;
Revise the Florida Price Level Index ratio to reflect
the higher cost of living, particularly housing,
insurance and transportation costs in Palm Beach
County, South Florida and the Treasure Coast into an
equitable formula based on a fully independent study
of the Florida Price Level Index and a look at moving
toward regional cost differentials;
Oppose any further use of state funds to equalize
local discretionary millage for operating or school
construction until there is taxpayer equity among
counties, i.e., local taxpayers are assessed similar
dollars per FTE among the 67 counties;
PBSD – 2007 Legislative Priorities
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Combine local discretionary millages back
into a single .75-mill rate, capped at whatever
district raises the most funds per FTE plus
5%;
Modify Exceptional Student Education
Guarantee into a five-level cost-factored
program in lieu of a block grant so that ESE
services receive the same cost increases as
the basic student;
Double state funding for safe schools to meet
security and prevention mandates ($7 million
increase for PBSD);
Maintain and fully fund Transportation and
Instructional Materials as categorical
programs;
PBSD – 2007 Legislative Priorities
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Calculate district CSR progress based on
third (October) and fourth (February) FTE to
give a better comparison of actual students
and to give districts adequate time to make
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Abolish the 1998 block grant for adult basic
and GED education and reinstate funding on
an FTE-generated formula tied to the Base
Student Allocation.
PBSD – 2007 Legislative Priorities
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HB1877, Background Checks
Refile and pass HB7117 (2006) that
clarified the conditions and procedures
associated with the 2005 Jessica
Lunsford Act (HB1877) that better
defined school grounds and focused on
those contracted individuals who are
both on school grounds and have direct
contact with students during school
hours.
PBSD – 2007 Legislative Priorities
Unfunded Mandates
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New Mandates: Oppose any unfunded mandates or
mandates where money would be taken from other
existing programs;
Existing Mandates: Provide full funding for existing
mandates such as:
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the cost of building or modifying public schools as
emergency shelters when designated by the state;
The cost of implementing curriculum and monitoring
student progress In programs such as Just Read
Florida!, African and African-American studies and the
Holocaust;
The cost of student transportation, especially to meet
legislative intent for school choice; and
Instances when state and federal funds do not cover
mandated services for exceptional student education
(ESE) pupils and local revenues must be used to make
up the difference.