14010-14015
UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE CODE
SECTION 14010-14015
14010. The California Workforce Investment Board is the body responsible for assisting the Governor in the development, oversight, and continuous improvement of California's workforce investment system. 14011. The board shall report, through its executive director, to the Secretary of the Labor and Workforce Development Agency. 14012. The board shall be appointed by the Governor to assist in the development of the State Workforce Investment Plan and to carry out other functions, as described in Section 14103. The board shall be comprised of the Governor and representatives from the following categories: (a) Two members of each house of the Legislature, appointed by the appropriate presiding officer of each house. (b) (1) A majority of board members shall be representatives of business who: (A) Are owners of small and large businesses, chief executives or operating officers of small and large businesses, and other small and large business executives or employers with optimum policymaking or hiring authority, including members of local workforce investment boards. (B) Represent businesses with employment opportunities that reflect the employment opportunities of the state. (C) Are appointed from a group of individuals nominated by state business organizations and business trade associations. (2) At least one representative shall be a private sector member of the California Economic Strategy Panel, created pursuant to Section 15570 of the Government Code. (c) Chief elected officials representing both cities and counties, where appropriate. (d) Representatives of labor organizations that are appointed to the board by the Governor shall have been nominated by state labor federations. At least 15 percent of board members shall be representatives of labor organizations. (e) Representatives of individuals and organizations that have experience with regard to youth activities. (f) Representatives of individuals and organizations that have experience and expertise in the delivery of workforce investment activities, including the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, representatives of school districts, and representatives of community-based organizations within the state. (g) The lead state agency officials with responsibility for the programs, services, or activities that are mandatory participants in the one-stop system, or, where there are no lead state agency officials responsible for those programs, services, or activities, a representative with expertise relating to those programs, services, or activities. (h) Any other representatives and state agency officials as the Governor may designate, such as the state agency officials responsible for economic development and juvenile justice programs in the state. (i) Members of the board that represent organizations, agencies, or other entities shall be individuals with optimum policymaking authority within those organizations, agencies, or entities. (j) In making appointments to the board, the Governor shall consider the ethnic, race, gender, and geographic distribution of the state's population, and members of the board shall represent diverse regions of the state, including urban, rural, and suburban areas. (k) The Governor may appoint a single member to the board to represent multiple constituencies on the board. (l) The Governor shall select a chairperson for the board from the business representatives. 14013. The board shall assist the Governor in the following: (a) Promoting the development of a well-educated and highly skilled workforce. (b) Developing the State Workforce Investment Plan. (c) Developing guidelines for the continuous improvement and operation of the workforce investment system, including: (1) Developing policies to guide the one-stop system. (2) Providing technical assistance for the continuous improvement of the one-stop system. (3) Recommending state investments in the one-stop system. (4) Targeting resources to high-wage industry sectors that are either high-growth sectors or critical to California's economy, or both. (d) Developing and continuously improving the statewide workforce investment system as delivered via the one-stop delivery system, including: (1) Developing linkages in order to assure coordination and nonduplication among workforce programs and activities. (2) Reviewing local workforce investment plans. (3) Providing guidance to ensure services reflect the needs of high-wage industry sectors. (e) Commenting, at least once annually, on the measures taken pursuant to the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act Amendments of 1990 ( Public Law 101-392; 20 U.S.C. Sec. 2301 et seq.). (f) Designating local workforce investment areas within the state based on information derived from all of the following: (1) Consultations with the Governor. (2) Consultations with the chief local elected officials. (3) Consideration of comments received through the public comment process, as described in Section 112(b)(9) of the federal Workforce Investment Act of 1998. (g) Developing and modifying allocation formulas, as necessary, for the distribution of funds for adult employment and training activities, for youth activities to local workforce investment areas, and dislocated worker employment and training activities, as permitted by federal law. (h) Coordinating the development and continuous improvement of comprehensive state performance measures, including state adjusted levels of performance, to assess the effectiveness of the workforce investment activities in the state. (i) Preparing the annual report to the United States Secretary of Labor. (j) Recommending policy for the development of the statewide employment statistics system, including workforce and economic data, as described in Section 15 of Title 29 of the United States Code, and using, to the fullest extent possible, the Employment Development Department's existing labor market information systems. (k) Recommending strategies to the Governor for strategic training investments of the Governor's 15-percent discretionary funds. (l) Developing and recommending waivers, in conjunction with local workforce investment boards, to the Governor as provided for in the federal Workforce Investment Act of 1998. (m) Recommending policy to the Governor for the use of the 25-percent rapid response funds, as authorized under the federal Workforce Investment Act of 1998. (n) Developing an application to the United States Department of Labor for an incentive grant under Section 9273 of Title 20 of the United States Code. 14015. Members of the board may receive up to one hundred dollars ($100) for each day's actual attendance at meetings and other official business of the board, not to exceed three hundred dollars ($300) per month, and shall receive their necessary and actual expenses incurred in the performance of their official duties.