Agenda - Economic Development Authority - 02/10/2022

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Manufacturing Cohort recap 2020/2021: ■ Conduct hosted events adjusted to current environment around in person meetings ■ Delivery on Workforce Training Grant. • Continue to Deliver on Administrative function of Workforce Training Grant. ■ Delivery on outreach to manufacturing with tours and interviewing. • Support efforts in support of Manufacturing needs. Lead and continue to support Manufacturing Workforce Acquisition - Alternative workforce groups. • Respond/facilitated outreach to manufacturing on "Financing Captions" in a time of opportunity. • Respond/facilitated outreach to manufacturing on "Safety Training" in a time of challenges in finding support resources to meet OSHA requirements, • Support of the Toys for Joy annual event by arranging for CoHort Manufacture member, 5teinwall Inc., act as the hosting site for the event distribution. • Serving on the planning board for the annual Minnesota Manufactured Technical Educators Conference. • Serving on the New Program Task Force for the Anoka Technical College. Investigate and vet new education programs that can support the needs of Manufacturing. • Serving on the Anoka Hennepin Dist. 11 STEAM Advisory Board. Aligning education curriculum with needs of Advanced Manufacturing locally. Status on Workforce Training Grant and implementation: 2021 was the first year that the Manufacture CoHort focused on application to win a MN Dual Training Pipeline grant. Competitive grant writing process began in February. The CoHort was awarded access to a $120,000 grant to be used with incumbent workers in the Advanced Manufacture industry segment. June—August commitment of outreach and alignment of students in manufacturing community. Collaboration with Anoka Technical college, MN Dpt of Labor, MN Office of Higher Ed, Employers with education on curriculum and early understanding on what On the Job Training will look like. September: Arrive at goal of 20 participants to utilize the entire grant award. Also, September is the beginning of"in class" aspect of the grant deployment. Classroom aspect to continue until May of 2022. October continued the administration of the grant. On the Job Training will be finalized and deployment and tracking/reporting on OTJ will continue to the end of the classroom in May.