LaWana Mayfield
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first heard Oct 2023
last heard 11 May
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As we get into the gap analysis, there was a couple of things that I wanted to lift up um as well and hope that it will be included in the consultants report out.
Um
Where you get here to the Office of Workforce Development and you're talking about businesses ensuring workforce needs are identified, um
There is a little bit of a chicken and an egg dynamic, as you all are aware.
Um
when it comes to securing contracts and then going to get the workforce to deliver on the contracts.
You've got to have contracts in order to get funding to go get resources.
How are we thinking about how to cl how to close that gap?
Yeah, to some degree.
I think what I'm trying to highlight here is the gap between not only the workforce existing but the funding to hire the workforce on some level so that they can be in position so you can compete on the formal projects.
Thank you for that.
And then just as a follow-up to that, as we move further down this pipeline here on the gap analysis, when it comes to like winning the contract, the dis the time between the award and contracting and then delivering and then payout is oftentimes months.
Um and so when you again when you think about those businesses that have to go get that workforce to demonstrate competitiveness and then
needing work for that workforce to do as they wait for this contract to actually start.
If the I would love to see us exper um innovate around shortening those timelines so that people can really be agile and responsive to those bids.
Does that make sense?
Absolutely, and not just the quick pay from where I've submitted my my um
my pay out, but we're gonna do this work.
We've awarded it.
the time that it's gonna take to then come to whatever governing board, in our case city council, to approve that work and then contract and start and those kinds of things.
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