2.2-2669 - Virginia Workforce Council; purpose; membership; terms; compensation and expenses; staff.
§ 2.2-2669. Virginia Workforce Council; purpose; membership; terms;compensation and expenses; staff.
A. The Virginia Workforce Council (the Council) is established as a policycouncil, within the meaning of § 2.2-2100, in the executive branch of stategovernment. The purpose of the Council shall be to assist the Governor inmeeting workforce training needs in the Commonwealth.
B. The Council shall consist of 29 members as follows:
1. The Council shall include two members of the House of Delegates to beappointed by the Speaker of the House of Delegates; and two members of theSenate to be appointed by the Senate Committee on Rules. Legislative membersshall serve terms coincident with their terms of office and may bereappointed for successive terms.
2. The Governor or his designee; the Secretaries of Commerce and Trade,Education, and Health and Human Resources; the Chancellor of the VirginiaCommunity College System; the Commissioner of the Virginia EmploymentCommission; and the president of the Virginia AFL-CIO shall serve as members.
3. The Governor shall appoint members as follows: one mayor and onechairperson of a county board of supervisors; one representative of labor inaddition to the president of the Virginia AFL-CIO; and 15 nonlegislativecitizen members representing the business community, to include thepresidents of the Virginia Chamber of Commerce and the VirginiaManufacturer's Association, one representative of proprietary employmenttraining schools, one representative of health care employers, and theremaining members who are business owners, chief executive officers, chiefoperating officers, chief financial officers, senior managers or otherbusiness executives or employers with optimum policy-making or hiringauthority and who shall represent diverse regions of the state, to includeurban, suburban, and rural areas, at least two of whom shall be members oflocal workforce investment boards. Nonlegislative citizen members may benonresidents of the Commonwealth.
Members appointed in accordance with this subdivision shall serve four-yearterms, subject to the pleasure of the Governor, and may be reappointed.
C. If one person appointed to fill one of the enumerated positions insubsection B also qualifies to fill any other of the enumerated positions,such person may, at the discretion of the Governor, be deemed to fill any orall of the enumerated positions for which such person qualifies.
D. The Governor shall select a chairman and vice-chairman from among the 15members representing the business community appointed in accordance withsubdivision 3 of subsection B. The Council shall meet upon the call of thechair or the Governor.
E. Compensation and reimbursement of expenses of the members shall be asfollows:
1. Legislative members appointed in accordance with subdivision B 1 shallreceive such compensation and reimbursement of expenses incurred in theperformance of their duties as provided in §§ 2.2-2813, 2.2-2825, and30-19.12.
2. Members of the Council appointed in accordance with subdivision B 2 shallnot receive compensation but shall be reimbursed for all reasonable andnecessary expenses incurred in the performance of their duties as provided in§§ 2.2-2813 and 2.2-2825.
3. Members of the Council appointed in accordance with subdivision B 3 shallnot receive compensation but shall be reimbursed for all reasonable andnecessary expenses incurred in the performance of their duties as provided in§§ 2.2-2813 and 2.2-2825.
Funding for the costs of compensation and expenses of the members shall beprovided from federal funds received under the Workforce Investment Act of1998 (P.L. 105-220, as amended).
F. The Office of the Chancellor of the Virginia Community College Systemshall provide strategic guidance and staff support to the Council.
(1998, cc. 701, 899, § 9-329.1; 1999, cc. 840, 855; 2001, cc. 336, 844; 2003,c. 642; 2004, c. 1000; 2006, cc. 696, 751; 2008, cc. 269, 388.)