WIOA State Plan Common Elements

The State Board shall include The Governor (WIOA Sec 102(b)(1)(B). The Alabama State Board includes the Governor, Kay Ivey. The State Board shall include a member of each chamber of the State legislature (to the extent consistent with State law), appointed by the appropriate presiding officers of such chamber; therefore, the Alabama WIOA Board includes Representative Terri Collins of the Alabama House of Representatives and Senator Clay Scofield of the Alabama Senate. The Board must contain a majority of representatives of businesses in the State appointed by the Governor. These members must be owners of businesses, chief executives or operating officers of businesses, or other business executives or employers with optimum policymaking or hiring authority, and who, in addition, may be members of a local board described in section 107(b)(2)(A)(i); must represent businesses (including small businesses), or organizations representing businesses described in this subclause, that provide employment opportunities that, at a minimum, include high-quality, work-relevant training and development in in-demand industry sectors or occupations in the State; and are appointed from among individuals nominated by State business organizations and business trade associations. In accordance with these categories of business leaders, the appointed business representatives of the Alabama WIOA Board are George Clark (President of Manufacture Alabama), Ronnie Boles (President of General & Automotive Machine Shop, Inc.), Joseph Brown (Area Manager of Alabama Power Company), Russell Dubose (Human Resources of Phifer, Inc.), A. J. Cooper, (Attorney of Cooper Law), Bobby Humphrey (VP of Bryant Bank), Jason Long (Human Resources Director of Thompson Tractor Company, Inc.), Mike Reynolds (President of BroadSouth Communications, Inc.), Wayne Silas (President of Silas Electric and Tree Service LLC), Perry Hand, President/CEO of Volker, Inc), Sandra Koblas (Human Resources Director of Austal USA), Patrick Cagle (Executive Director of JobKeeper Alliance), Cleveland Poole (VP of Pioneer Electric Cooperative, Inc.), Kasey Myers, (Manager of CSP Technologies), Jessica Horsley (Director of the Montgomery Area Chamber of Commerce), Sherry Vest (a self-employed executive), Ashley Ramsay-Naile (VP of Crowder Gulf), Bruce Willingham (President of Mach III, Inc.), Ronnelle Stewart (Human Resources Officer of Brookwood Medical Center), Tony Woiciechowski (Human Resources Manager of Hyundai Power Transformers USA), Steve Hildebrant (Manager of Alabama Power Company), Donny Jones (Chief Operating Officer of the Chamber of Commerce of West Alabama), Anne Savage (Controller of American Buildings Company), Jim Searcy (Executive Director of the Economic Development Association of Alabama), and Ken Tucker (Director of The Boeing Company). Not less than 20 percent (20%) of the members of the Board shall be representatives of the workforce within the State who shall include representatives of labor organizations, who have been nominated by State labor federations; shall include a representative, who shall be a member of a labor organization or a training director, from a joint labor-management apprenticeship program, or if no such joint program exists in the State, such a representative of an apprenticeship program in the State; may include representatives of community-based organizations that have demonstrated experience and expertise in addressing the employment, training, or education needs of individuals with barriers to employment, including organizations that serve veterans or that provide or support competitive, integrated employment for individuals with disabilities; and may include representatives of organizations that have demonstrated experience and expertise in addressing the employment, training, or education needs of eligible youth, including representatives of organizations that serve out-of-school youth. Alabama Board members meeting the above-listed criteria include Mike Fields (Director of the Alabama AFL-CIO Executive Board), Bren Riley (President of the Alabama AFL-CIO), Mary Albritten (Project Director of the Alabama AFL-CIO), Donnie Stanley (President of the Alabama State Building and Construction Trades), Frank Coiro (Center Director of Montgomery Job Corps), William Webb (President of Still Serving Veterans), Jason Phelps (Executive Director of Alabama Construction Recruitment Institute, Lynne Stokley (CEO of Easter Seals of Alabama), and Sydney Raine (President of Mobile Works, Inc.)

The balance of the members of the WIOA Board shall include representatives of government who shall include the lead State officials with primary responsibility for the core programs; and shall include chief elected officials (collectively representing both cities and counties, where appropriate); and may include such other representatives and officials as the Governor may designate, such as the State agency officials from agencies that are one-stop partners not specified in subclause (I) (including additional one-stop partners whose programs are covered by the State plan, if any); State agency officials responsible for economic development or juvenile justice programs in the State; individuals who represent an Indian tribe or tribal organization, as such terms are defined in section 166(b); and State agency officials responsible for education programs in the State, including chief executive officers of community colleges and other institutions of higher education. The required WIOA Core Partner Board members for Alabama include Fitzgerald Washington (Secretary of Labor, Alabama Department of Labor, representing Title III), Ed Castile (Deputy Secretary of Commerce for Workforce Development, Alabama Department of Commerce representing Title I), Jane Elizabeth Burdeshaw (Commissioner of the Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Services representing Title IV), Jimmy Baker (Chancellor of the Alabama Community College System representing Title II). The required county elected official on the Board is Merceria Ludgood (Commissioner of Mobile County). The required city elected official is Tony Haygood (Mayor of the City of Tuskegee). Other members of the WIOA Board under this classification include Nancy Buckner (Commissioner of the Alabama Department of Human Resources), Jim Purcell (Executive Director of the Alabama Commission on Higher Education), Josh Laney (Alabama Department of Education, Career Tech), and Alan Baker (Member of the Alabama House of Representatives).