2003 Adopted Resolutions
71st Annual Meeting
Denver

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COMMON PERFORMANCE MEASURES

WHEREAS, the United States Department of Labor's (DOL)proposed performance measures for the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) do not capture what the workforce system actually does, nor do the measures make sense to the business community; and

WHEREAS, no other federal program reporting requirements are as complicated or focused on each individual served as the DOL reporting system; and

WHEREAS, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has developed a set of common measures with common definitions for all job training programs across the Departments of Labor, Education, Health and Human Services, Veterans Affairs, Interior, and Housing an Urban Development; and

WHEREAS, the number of measures being proposed would be eight - four for the adult programs and four for the youth programs, in place of the seventeen performance measures in current law; and

WHEREAS, if all of these measures are mandated to be reported by DOL, the new eight plus seventeen measures in current law, The U.S. Conference of Mayors believes that this would be inefficient, costly and over burdensome; and

WHEREAS, The U.S. Conference of Mayors does not believe that the efficiency measure as currently proposed will be fair to disparate regions in states and across the country,

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that any common measures must be applied to all job training programs across all Departments; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the concerns about the efficiency measure as currently proposed be addressed; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that flexibility must be given to states and localities if additional measures are to be reported; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, if DOL mandates the reporting of the new eight plus the seventeen current performance measures, regulatory relief should be sought to relieve the reporting on the seventeen measures in current law; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED with the significant focus of business as a primary customer within the workforce system, there must be a business measure and this measure should be developed in the near future through local pilot testing.