Workforce Board Meeting Agenda

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	WORKFORCE BOARD RETREAT Longhouse Education and Cultural Center The Evergreen State College 2700 Evergreen Parkway Northwest Olympia, WA 98505 July 28 and 29, 2010
Purpose	Identify our focus for the coming year. A year from now, how would/do we want to answer the question: "How did the workforce development system respond to today's economic challenges and lay the groundwork for preparing our workforce for economic recovery?"

8:30 a.m.	Welcome and Introductions Purpose: Identify our focus for the coming year. (See above). Agenda

8:45 a.m.	Lay Groundwork for our Discussion, the Board and Workforce System What are the board's roles and responsibilities? The Workforce System. Latest system results.	1-2

10:15 a.m.	Break

10:30 a.m.	Lay Groundwork for our Discussion, the Board and Workforce System (Continued) Economic and Revenue Outlook Arun Raha, Executive Director, Washington Economic and Revenue Forecast Council	3

11:30 a.m.	Identify a Focus for the Coming Year

12 p.m.	Lunch

12:45 p.m.	Conclude discussion on our Focus for the Coming Year

1:45 p.m.	Break

2 p.m.	Ideas on what/how the system could marshal or enhance efforts.

4:30 p.m.	Adjourn Day 1


8:30 a.m.	July 29--Welcome, Review Day 1

8:45 a.m.	Agreeing on limited number of strategies to focus on.

10 a.m.	Break

10:15 a.m.	Identify how we move forward on these strategies.

12 p.m.	Lunch

12:45 p.m.	Board will discuss what roles it can/ will play in the coming year to support, facilitate and keep us all focused on this.

3:30 p.m.	Review purpose of the retreat and what we have accomplished.

3:45 p.m.	Next steps.

4 p.m.	Adjourn

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