Resolution To Permit The County Board Chair To Travel Out Of State To A National Association Of Counties Event

What: Getting America to Work: Strategies for Investing Federal Funding in Community Workforce Development

When: Saturday, July 23, 10:30AM – 11:45AM

Where: 2022 NACo Annual Conference in Adams County, Colo.

Description: For county leaders in the process of rebuilding and retraining local workforces impacted by COVID-19, the American Rescue Plan’s Recovery Fund provides a key funding source. Other federal programs and provisions in ARPA, however, can be combined with the Recovery Fund to increase the impact of these investments. Learn about these various funding streams and how fellow county leaders are braiding them together to invest in connecting youth to jobs, retraining older workers, partnering with colleges, providing wraparound services through nonprofits and other key aspects of workforce development.

Who (invited speakers):

• TBD, The White House (confirmed)
• Mr. Brent Miller, County Administrator, Sauk County, Wis. (invited)
• Hon. Lee Constantine, Commissioner, Seminole County, Fla. (confirmed)
• Hon. Stan Sallee, Commissioner, Tulsa County, Okla. (confirmed)
• Dr. Rebecca Watts, Regional Vice President – Northeast, Western Governors University (confirmed)
• Mr. Ron Painter, President and CEO, National Association of Workforce Boards (invited)

The Board Chair is seeking permission to accompany the Administrator pursuant to Rule V B. of the Sauk County Rules of the Board which reads (in part) as follows:

“…The convention cannot exceed three (3) days or be farther that three hundred (300) miles.  All other requests require approval by a majority of the Board…”