5800520 Public Roundtable on Review of the District’s Workforce Development Programs and the Implementation of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act

Council of the District of Columbia

Committee on Business, Consumer, and Regulatory Affairs

Notice of Public Roundtable

 

John A. Wilson Building   1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Suite 119  Washington, DC 20004                                        

 

Councilmember Vincent B. Orange, Sr., Chairperson

Committee on Business, Consumer, and Regulatory Affairs

Announces a Public Roundtable

 

Review of the District’s Workforce Development Programs and the Implementation of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act

 

Wednesday, January 13, 2016, 3:00 p.m.

John A. Wilson Building, Room 500

1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.

Washington, DC 20004

 

Councilmember Vincent B. Orange, Sr. announces the scheduling of a public roundtable by the Committee on Business, Consumer, and Regulatory Affairs to review the District’s workforce development programs and the Implementation of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (“WIOA”). The public roundtable is scheduled for Wednesday, January 13, 2016 at 3:00 p.m. in Room 500 of the John A. Wilson Building, 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20004.

 

The purpose of this public roundtable is to review the District’s workforce development programs. In addition, the roundtable will examine the District government’s implementation of WIOA which became effective on July 1, 2015.

 

Individuals and representatives of organizations who wish to testify at the public roundtable are asked to contact Ms. Faye Caldwell, Special Assistant to the Committee on Business, Consumer, and Regulatory Affairs, at [phone], or via e-mail at [e-mail] and furnish their names, addresses, telephone numbers, and organizational affiliation, if any, by the close of business Monday, January 11, 2016. Each witness is requested to bring 20 copies of his/her written testimony. Representatives of organizations and government agencies will be limited to 5 minutes in order to permit each witness an opportunity to be heard. Individual witnesses will be limited to 3 minutes.

 

If you are unable to testify at the hearing, written statements are encouraged and will be made a part of the official record.  The official record will remain open until close of business Wednesday, January 27, 2016.  Copies of written statements should be submitted to the Committee on Business, Consumer, and Regulatory Affairs, Council of the District of Columbia, Suite 119 of the John A. Wilson Building, 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20004.