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House Journal: Page 1887: Tuesday, April 21, 1998

	 $	    857,844
	 FTEs	      12.80
Sec. 14.  WORKFORCE RECRUITMENT INITIATIVE.
1.  FINDINGS.  The general assembly finds that growing levels of
employment coupled with historically low levels of unemployment
are evidence of increasing scarcity of skilled workers.  Limited
access to a skilled workforce is preventing Iowa companies from
increasing employment and production, and is a barrier to
sustained and stable economic growth.
Further, the general assembly finds that in order to increase
the size of the workforce, a partnership of private sector
employers, communities and public sector organizations should be
formed to develop and implement a workforce recruitment
initiative.  The initiative is intended to include strategies
for recruiting new workers that will meet the workforce needs of
Iowa employers who are unable to fill high quality jobs.
2.  ESTABLISHMENT.  The general assembly finds an immediate need
for the establishment of a workforce recruitment initiative with
projects intended to retain and recruit new skilled and
unskilled employees to fill the needs of both communities and
businesses.  The department of economic development and the
department of workforce development shall enter into a
cooperative memorandum of understanding to accomplish purposes
of this initiative.  The memorandum shall include, but not be
limited to, provisions for the sharing and utilization of job
matching databases and technology to accomplish the purposes of
the initiative and for an allocation out of moneys appropriated
to the department of economic development for purposes of the
workforce recruitment initiative for payment of employee
salaries related to the workforce recruitment initiative.
3.  STATE AGENCY COOPERATION.  The department of economic
development and the department of workforce development shall
seek and obtain the cooperation of any state agency and local
economic development organization actively involved in workforce
development initiatives which could provide employee recruitment
and marketing assistance to accomplish the workforce recruitment
initiative.
4.  FTEs.  For purposes of the workforce recruitment initiative,
the department of workforce development shall increase the
number of full-time equivalent positions authorized for the
department during the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1998, by
2.00 FTEs through moneys authorized for expenditure in this Act
and allocated pursuant to the cooperative memorandum of
understanding entered into with the department of economic
development as provided in section 2.
5.  APPROPRIATION.  There is appropriated from the general fund
of the state to the department of economic development for the
fiscal year beginning July 1, 1998, and ending June 30, 1999,
the following amount, or so much thereof as is necessary, to be
used for the purposes designated:
For workforce recruitment initiative purposes including
technical support and maintenance of databases and an internet
web site, for a joint proposal of the department of economic
development and the department of workforce development relating
to the workforce recruitment initiative which shall include
provisions for private sector contributions, and including
salaries, support, maintenance, miscellaneous purposes, and for
not more than the following full-time equivalent positions:  

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