Boston's Workforce Investment Board

Mayor Menino appoints the members of the Private Industry Council, which serves as Boston's Workforce Investment Board. The Board is comprised of leaders from business, education, government, labor and the community. It oversees the distribution of public workforce development funds in collaboration with the Mayor’s Office of Jobs and Community Services. The Board charters Boston’s three one-stop career centers and works through them to implement workforce development strategies.

Massachusetts two-year Workforce Development Plan reflects the continuing federal direction toward streamlined service delivery, the provision of youth services geared toward out-of-school youth and increasing local accountability. There is an evolving effort to align workforce investment policies on training more closely with a regional approach to critical, high growth sectors of the economy.

FY09 Annual Plan Notice

In recent years, the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Annual Business Plan process has included requirements for the provision of local area Labor Market Information and responses to a series of Narrative Questions.

For FY2009, the state has anticipated that local regions will be working on a Strategic Plan, aligned with the Governor's priorities, pursuant to its High-Performing Board initiative. In order to eliminate potential redundancy to HPB requirements and to optimize the ability of local directors and planners to focus on increased quality in products and to reduce the administrative burden that would be imposed by competing deadlines for High Performing Boards (HPB) and Annual Business Plan documents a decision has been made to scale back the requirements for the local area annual WIA Plan.

Local Boards are only being asked to submit updated information to reflect FY 2009 funding allocations, including Performance and Participant Planning documents, an Integrated Budget and Budget Narrative, Youth Budget information and a description of any significant changes to the local service delivery model (if applicable). Other than a description of significant changes planned for FY2009 and the Budget Narrative, no extensive narrative responses to questions or Labor Market Information (LMI) will be required. FY 2009 labor market and related information remain consistent with the information in the FY 2008 plan. Therefore, The Boston Workforce Investment Board is not planning any significant changes to the Boston service delivery model for FY 2009.

The FY 2008 Final Plan narrative is available under related resources.