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Business and Workforce

Subcommittee

California Jobs First Eastern Sierra

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  • Introductions

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  • Updates from SBC
    • Timeline
    • Regional Summary Part 1 Feedback

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  • Subcommittee Role

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  • Regional Strategy Plan
    • Workforce Development
    • Strategies for increasing economic diversification

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  • Next Steps

Agenda

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  • Unique place in time to provide feedback
  • Meeting guidelines
  • Why are we here today

Meeting Objectives

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  • Reorganization of subcommittees

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  • New strategic planning contractors

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  • We are getting Slack!
    • Slack 101 virtual event will be on February 26th at noon

Project Updates

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California Jobs First Timeline 2024

*timelines and funding may change based on changes in the CA state budget

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March

February

April

June

May

July

August

HRTC meeting

Subcommittee Meetings

- Start Regional Strategy

- Begin Strategic Planning

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*Expecting Implementation SFP*

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- Project ID Process

- Drafting Regional Strategy

- Project ID Process

- Drafting Regional Strategy

- Tahoe Summit

Catalyst Award

Announcement

Regional Strategic Plan: Part 2

Due

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Business and Workforce Subcommittee Role:

  • Assist in inventory of existing businesses in eastern sierra region related to the priority industry sectors and prepare gap analysis of needs for HRJ growth

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  • Identify areas in need of investment to support regional strategic plan and new high road job business development

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  • Identify existing programs to leverage for funding, technical assistance and infrastructure development AND identify needs for new programming or investment to meet needs of high road industry sector businesses.

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Read the report & provide feedback

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View the video summaries

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Deliverable 2.2

Regional Strategy PLAN

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DUE: August 2024:

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  • Vision and goals
  • Strategies for the growth of targeted industries
  • Strategies for:
    • Increasing economic diversification
    • Responding effectively to economic shocks
    • Increasing economic equity
    • Increasing health and environmental equity
    • Aligning with State strategies

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Deliverable 2.2

Regional Strategy PLAN

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Workforce Development

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  • Explain how the industrial strategy plans to match skills to available jobs, address talent and recruitment, and facilitate strategic collaboration among businesses, training and education institutions, labor, etc.

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Breakout Discussion 1:

Workforce Development

  1. What are the barriers to job recruitment?

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  • How can we have better collaboration between businesses and education/training programs?

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Deliverable 2.2

Regional Strategy PLAN

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Increasing economic diversification

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  • Strategies must focus on economic diversification in at-risk locations (i.e., considering the impacts of economic disruptors such as climate change on the local workforce and economy).

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  • Investments must clearly address barriers to attraction and retention of businesses, as well as barriers to quality job access for disinvested communities.

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Breakout Discussion 2:

Increasing

Economic Diversification

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  1. What resources (social infrastructure or financial) do we already have that can we leverage?

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  • What do we need to implement new certification programs?

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  • How can we work towards encouraging entrepreneurship to support the local economic ecosystem?

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Next Steps

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  • HRTC Meeting Moved from Feb 23, 2024 to March 1, 2024 @ Bishop
    • Strategic Planning & Next steps for the year
  • April 25-26 Summit in Lake Tahoe
  • HRTC Reimbursement

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Thank you.

Follow up info:

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Magnolia Barra & Kara Bechtle�Sierra Business Council

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Email: cerf@sierrabusiness.org

Website: https://www.sierrabusiness.org/cerf

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