BOARD COMMITTEES

Key duties of the Executive Committee consist of the following:

• Act, as needed, between Board meetings, on the Board’s behalf
• Make member assignments to committees
• Primarily responsible for the development and review of the CAWDB strategic plan
• Approve committee project budgets
• Serve as Liaison with National and N.C. Association of Workforce Boards and elected officials
• Analyze and make recommendations on state and national legislation
• Provide orientations for new members
• Recruit business leaders to serve on CAWDB

Chair: Brian Holland

Members: Rodney Carson, Tom White and Pat Sturdivant

Staff Support: Crystal Waters

Strategies:

1. Identify marginalized and underserved target populations for support.

2. Identify in-demand careers offering target population job seekers economic mobility by March 2023.

3. Benchmark practices that successfully serve targeted communities by June 2023.

4. Identify and engage receptive employers who will hire qualified (possess competencies/credentialed) target population job seekers.

Chair: Glenda Underwood

Members: Tamika Walker Kelly, Gail McDougal, Jill Straight, Sarah Stone, Patrick Townsend, Ross Yeager

Staff Support: Malinda Todd

Strategies:

1. Convey the impact of workforce development on emerging issues related to talent and the labor market by 2025.
2. Increase word-of-mouth sharing and personalize the work of CAWD and NCWorks by 2025.
3. Utilize community partners as a referral source for information to job seekers or special groups such as  underserved/marginalized by 2025.

Chair: Jerilyn Meckler

Members: Rob Axford, Chanda Armstrong, Rodney Carson, Brian Holland, Harold Keen, Vic McCormick, Courtney Holcomb, Craig Sullivan

Staff Support: Brenda Wilkerson

Strategies:

1. Identify employer needs

2. Activate employer relationships.

3. Address needs with partnership and solutions and sharing best practices.

Chair: Melissa Short

Members: Mark Bertoncino, Michael Haley, Nicole Jarvis Miller, David Palumbo, Jerry Pedley, Danielle Sardo, Tom White

Staff Support: Barbara Brothers