The Florida Senate

288.9959  Operational Design and Technology Procurement Committee.--

(1)  The chairman of the Workforce Development Board shall appoint an Operational Design and Technology Procurement Committee, which shall assemble representatives from the regional workforce development boards, board staff, and the staff of the WAGES State Board of Directors to design and develop a model operational design and technology procurement strategy for One-Stop Career Centers to ensure that services from region to region are consistent for customers, that customer service technology is compatible, and that procurement expenditures, where possible, are aggregated to obtain economies and efficiencies.

(2)  The committee shall initially focus on designing a uniform intake procedure for all One-Stop Career Centers; on the design and delivery of customer reports on eligible training providers; on the design of Intensive Services Accounts, Individual Training Accounts, and Individual Development Accounts; on enhancing availability of electronic One-Stop Career Center core services; and on the development of One-Stop Career Center model operating procedures.

(3)  To ensure the fulfillment of these requirements, the Workforce Development Board may direct the Department of Labor and Employment Security, the Department of Education, and the Department of Children and Family Services to provide such services and assign such staff to this committee as it deems necessary until June 30, 2000.

History.--s. 60, ch. 99-251.