* This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting. [00:00:04] COUNCIL MEMBER GONZALEZ. COUNCIL MEMBER CAB HRA. COUNCIL MEMBER ELAS. COUNCIL MEMBER COURAGE PRESENT AND CHAIRWOMAN GRO. HERE WE HAVE A QUORUM. EXCELLENT. WELL WELCOME EVERYONE TO THE OFFICIAL KICKOFF OF OUR 20 19 20 21 COUNCIL COMMITTEE, UH, SEASON NOW. UM, WELCOME TO THE ECONOMIC WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE AND, UM, TWO, ALSO WELCOME TO OUR NEWEST MEMBER OF THE COMMITTEE, COUNCIL MEMBER MELISSA CAVEO. HDA. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I'M GLAD TO HAVE YOU HERE. MOST DEFINITELY. THANK YOU. ALSO, UM, WELCOME TO OUR NEW INTERIM DIRECTOR ALEX LOPEZ. VERY HAPPY TO HAVE YOU HERE. UM, ALEX. AND THEN ALSO WELCOME TO ALL OF OUR VIEWING PUBLIC WHO IS HERE. THIS IS, UM, NOW ONE OF THE STEPS THAT COUNCIL AND THE CITY HAS MADE TO MAKE OUR COUNCIL COMMITTEE MEETINGS MORE TRANSPARENT AND MORE ACCESSIBLE TO OUR COMMUNITY. SO OUR COUNCIL COMMITTEES WILL NOW BE STREAMING ONLINE AND, UM, ON T T V S A FOR EVERYONE. SO, UM, WE'RE VERY PROUD OF THAT FACT, AND GLAD TO BE STARTING OFF WITH OUR WONDERFUL, IMPORTANT, IMPORTANT COMMITTEE, ECONOMIC AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT. [1. 19-5911 Approval of the minutes from the Economic and Workforce Development Committee meeting on June 4, 2019.] SO, WITH THAT, WE'RE GOING TO MOVE FOR THE FIRST ITEM ON THE AGENDA IS APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES FROM THE ECONOMIC WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE MEETING ON JUNE 4TH, 2019. THEY WERE IN YOUR PACKETS FOR REVIEW. IF I CAN HAVE A MOTION TO APPROVE, I MOVE TO APPROVE THE MINUTES FROM JUNE 14TH. OKAY. JUNE 4TH. SAME. WE HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES FOR JUNE 4TH, 2019. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. OPPOSED? SAME SIGN. MOTION CARRIES. [2. 19-5649 Briefing and possible action on the renewal of an Interlocal Agreement between the City of San Antonio and the Alamo Colleges District [Carlos J. Contreras III, Assistant City Man] UM, NEXT WE HAVE BRIEFING AND POSSIBLE ACTION ON, UH, THE RENEWAL OF AN INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO AND THE ALAMO COLLEGE'S DISTRICT. ALEX, TO START WITH JUST A LITTLE BIT OF BACKGROUND. IN 2011, CITY COUNCIL AUTHORIZED A 15 YEAR SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT THAT ESTABLISHED AN ESCROW ACCOUNT TO HOLD THE CITY'S 14% SHARE OF C P S REVENUES, UH, FROM ALAMO COLLEGES DISTRICT. SO THIS, UM, THIS FUNDING WAS TO BE USED IN COLLABORATION BETWEEN THE CITY AND ALAMO COLLEGES FOR TRAINING PROGRAMS, INCLUDING CUSTOMIZED ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TRAINING. AND THIS PARTNERSHIP WAS RENEWED IN 2016 FOR AN ADDITIONAL 15 YEARS. AND I'M SORRY, I DIDN'T ACTUALLY INTRODUCE THE ITEM, WHICH IS, UM, CONSIDERATION AND YOUR, YOUR REVIEW AND CONSIDERATION OF A SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT WITH ALAMO COLLEGES, UM, FOR A TRAINING PROGRAM THAT I'M ABOUT TO DESCRIBE. BUT, UM, I JUST WENT AHEAD AND JUMPED INTO THE BACKGROUND THERE. SO DON'T BE NERVOUS. I JUST, I JUST TOOK OFF WITH IT. . AS FAR AS, UM, SINCE ITS ESTABLISHMENT, THIS COLLABORATION HAS YIELDED MANY SUCCESSES. AND OUR PROPOSAL FOR THIS UPCOMING YEAR INCLUDES CONTINUING OUR SUPPORT FOR THESE FOUR PROGRAMS, WHICH ARE THE ALAMO ACADEMIES TRAINING FOR CITY EMPLOYEES COORDINATED THROUGH OUR HR DEPARTMENT, OUR SMALL BUSINESS MENTOR PROTEGE PROGRAM, WHICH IS COORDINATED THROUGH THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT AND THE TRAINING FOR JOB SUCCESS PROGRAM, WHICH IS COORDINATED THROUGH OUR DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES. THE FISCAL YEAR 2020 BUDGET IS ESTIMATED SLIGHTLY OVER A MILLION DOLLARS, AND WE'RE RECOMMENDING THAT 45% OF THAT FUNDING SUPPORT THE ALAMO ACADEMIES AND THAT 40% OF IT SUPPORT OUR TRAINING FOR CITY EMPLOYEES. THE REMAINING AMOUNTS WILL SUPPORT OUR MENTOR PROTEGE PROGRAM AND OUR TRAINING FOR JOB SUCCESS PROGRAMS. NOW I'M GONNA PROVIDE YOU A LITTLE BIT OF DETAIL ABOUT EACH OF THE SPECIFIC PROGRAMS. AND I'LL START WITH ALAMO ACADEMIES. THIS PROGRAM HAS ACTUALLY RECEIVED FUNDING SINCE THE INCEPTION OF THE COLLABORATION IN 2001. AND TO DATE, IT'S GRADUATED OVER 1400 STUDENTS. A TOTAL OF FIVE DISTINCT ACADEMIES PROVIDE TRAINING, COLLEGE CREDIT AND SUMMER INTERNSHIPS TO AREA HIGH SCHOOL JUNIORS AND SENIORS IN TARGETED INDUSTRIES, INCLUDING AEROSPACE, IT ADVANCED MANUFACTURING, HEALTH PROFESSIONS, AND DIESEL TECHNOLOGY. IN 2019, WE ANTICIPATE 104 STUDENTS GRADUATING FROM THE FIVE ACADEMIES. SO THIS COLLABORATION ALSO PROVIDES VALUABLE OPPORTUNITIES, UM, TO MAKE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE FOR CITY EMPLOYEES. OUR HUMAN [00:05:01] RESOURCES DEPARTMENT COORDINATES EMPLOYEE EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES, INCLUDING G E D EXAM, PREPARATION, AND C D L TRAINING. CITY STAFF ALSO HAVE ACCESS TO PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND PROCESS IMPROVEMENT TRAINING, ALONG WITH LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS. IN FISCAL YEAR 18, A TOTAL OF 1,818 EMPLOYEES PARTICIPATED IN 133 DIFFERENT TRAINING CLASSES. THE MENTOR PROTEGE PROGRAM PROVIDES CAPACITY BUILDING EDUCATIONAL COURSES SPECIFIC TO THE NEEDS OF SMALL BUSINESSES. COURSES INCLUDE HOW TO WRITE A BUSINESS PLAN, MANAGING YOUR FINANCIALS, ACCESSING CAPITAL AND MARKETING. THE PROGRAM PROVIDES INDIVIDUALIZED BUSINESS COUNSELING AND FACILITATES MENTOR PROTEGE PARTNERSHIPS, WHICH ALLOW BUSINESSES TO LEARN FROM SUCCESSFUL BUSINESSES. UM, LEARN SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS PRACTICES FROM EXPERT OR INDUSTRY LEADERS. IN 2019, 48 COMPANIES PARTICIPATED AS PROTEGES AND 31 COMPANIES PROVIDED MENTORS. 10 PROTEGE COMPANIES WILL GRADUATE, UM, LATER THIS FALL IN OCTOBER. AND 98% OF THE BUSINESSES THAT PARTICIPATE IN THE PROGRAM REPORT AN INCREASE IN REVENUE. FINALLY, THE JOB TRAIN, THE TRAINING FOR JOB SUCCESS PROGRAM ASSISTS INDIVIDUALS IN MAKING PERMANENT IMPROVEMENTS IN THEIR LIVES TO MOVE TOWARDS SELF-SUFFICIENCY. THIS FUNDING WILL PROVIDE SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITIES FOR 47 CASE MANAGEMENT CLIENTS ENROLLING IN AN ALAMO COLLEGE CERTIFICATE OR DEGREE PROGRAM TO PREPARE FOR EMPLOYMENT IN TARGETED OCCUPATIONS. IN FISCAL YEAR 1837 CLIENTS PARTICIPATED, AND AS YOU CAN SEE, THE IMPACT ON WAGES IS SUBSTANTIAL. THESE WAGE INCREASES HAVE HELPED TRANSITION A TOTAL OF 141 FAMILIES OUT OF POVERTY LAST MONTH, ALAMO COLLEGE'S, UH, BOARD OF TRUSTEES AUTHORIZED EXECUTION OF THIS INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT. AND TODAY WE SEEK YOUR APPROVAL FOR FULL CITY COUNCIL CONSIDERATION OF THE AGREEMENT TO CONTINUE THE FUNDING FOR THE PROPOSED PROGRAMS. REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE VARIOUS PROGRAMS ARE HERE TO ANSWER ANY OF YOUR QUESTIONS, AND I'LL GO AHEAD AND INTRODUCE THEM VERY QUICKLY AS WELL. 'CAUSE WE REALLY APPRECIATE THEIR SUPPORT FROM INTERNALLY WITHIN THE CITY. WE'VE GOT, UM, EDWARD GONZALEZ FROM HUMAN SERVICES. WE'VE GOT JOEL JENKS FROM HR, WE'VE GOT MICHAEL SENDEN AND AL FROM E D D. AND THEN FROM ALAMO ACADEMIES, WE HAVE CATHERINE ROCHA AND THEIR BOARD CHAIR. UH, BECKY HUTCHISON FROM HOLT. THANK YOU ALL OF Y'ALL FOR JOINING US. AND THAT CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION. THANK YOU, ALEX, UM, VERY MUCH FOR THE PRESENTATION AND FOR SHARING INSIGHT ON THIS, UM, IN A LOCAL AGREEMENT. UM, SO THE ACTION YOU ARE REQUESTING TODAY IS YOUR RECOMMENDATION IS THAT WE MOVE FORWARD TO PROCEED TO COUNCIL, UH, FOR APPROVAL TO MOVE TO COUNCIL A SESSION FOR THE RENEWAL OF THIS INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT. THAT'S CORRECT. OKAY. EXCUSE ME, , OH, FORGIVE ME. HELLO. WE'VE BEEN OUT OF PRACTICE FOR A WHILE, SO WE'RE GETTING USED TO IT AGAIN. SO, YES, MA'AM. CHAIR. UM, IT IS THE APPROVAL OF THE INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT. THE SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT WAS APPROVED YEARS AGO, UHHUH AND RENEWED YEARS AGO. SO THIS IS THIS YEAR'S INTERLOCAL WITH ALMA COLLEGES. OKAY. A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS. MY FIRST QUESTION IS ON, UH, THE ALAMO ACADEMIES. DO YOU ALL HAPPEN TO HAVE A SLIDE OR CAN YOU TALK TO, UM, THE PARTNERS, UH, I MEAN, GLAD TO HAVE HOLDS, BUT THE OTHER PARTNERS THAT YOU HAVE, UM, COMPANIES THAT YOU HAVE THAT ARE PARTNERS WITH ALAMO ACADEMIES? SURE. WE HAVE, UH, EVERY SUMMER WE HAVE THE CAN, CAN WE GET YOU, 'CAUSE NOW WE'RE TELEVISED, SO IF YOU CAN JUST STEP TO THE MIC, PLEASE. SURE. MM-HMM. , THANK YOU SO MUCH. SO HOLD ON. 'CAUSE COUNCIL MEMBER PLI IS NOW, OH, THIS IS HIS CHAIR. . WELL, SINCE IT'S TELEVISED, MAYBE SHE SHOULD COME UP HERE. OH, YEAH. GO UP THERE, PLEASE. OH, OKAY. WE'RE ALL GETTING USED TO EVERYTHING HERE, SO DON'T WORRY ABOUT THIS. YES. OKAY. MUCH. OKAY. THANK YOU FOR, THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO STAND IN FRONT OF YOU. UM, EVERY, EVERY YEAR WE HAVE ABOUT 30 TO 40 INDUSTRY PARTNERS, UM, DIFFERENT INDUSTRY PARTNERS THAT ARE FOUR ACADEMIES THAT REQUIRE THE MANDATORY INTERNSHIP GO-TO. SO THEY INCLUDE, UM, BIGS SIZE COMPANIES LIKE C P S, ENERGY, H E B, TOYOTA, HU, CAT, UM, TWO, EVEN OUR SMALLER SIZE COMPANIES LIKE I T M, UM, HOW ME, UH, HOW MANY PRODUCTS? UH, SO WE, WE AVERAGE ABOUT 30 TO 40 EVERY, EVERY SEMESTER. EVERY SUMMER. SORRY? EVERY SUMMER? YES. YES, MA'AM. OKAY, GREAT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU. UM, ON SLIDE NUMBER SEVEN, ALEX, THE BUSINESS EMPOWERMENT PLAN, THE MENTOR PROTEGE PLAN, CAN YOU, UM, YOU TALKED ABOUT [00:10:01] THE INCREASED ANNUAL REVENUE ON AVERAGE BY 98%. CAN YOU REMIND ME, I KNOW I'VE SEEN THIS NUMBER BEFORE, BUT HOW MANY MAYBE STARTED WITH THE MENTOR PROTEGE PLAN THAT MOVED FROM MAYBE SUB TO THE PRIME, UH, CONTRACTORS? DO WE HAVE THOSE NUMBERS BECAUSE OF THE TRAINING AND EVERYTHING THAT THEY WENT THROUGH THE MENTOR PROTEGE PLAN? DID THEY ACTUALLY SURE. THANKS. GOOD AFTERNOON. SO YEAH, THE PRIMARY PURPOSE OF THIS PROGRAM WAS TO GET FOLKS WHO WEREN'T READY TO DO WORK WITH THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO TO BUILD THEIR CAPACITY TO DO SO. AND WE'RE HAPPY TO SAY THAT OF THE FOLKS WHO'VE GRADUATED, WHICH SEDATE IS ABOUT 63, SINCE THE PROGRAM STARTED IN 2012, 50% OF THEM NOW PARTICIPATE ON CITY CONTRACTS AT VARIOUS DIFFERENT LEVELS. I WOULD HAVE TO GET THE BREAKDOWN FOR YOU FOR PRIME AND SUB, BUT AT LEAST THEY'RE NOW PARTICIPATING, WHICH WAS KIND OF THE GOAL OF THE PROGRAM. RIGHT. THAT, THAT'S WONDERFUL. SO IF YOU COULD GIVE US A BREAKDOWN OF JUST WHAT THE PRIME WAS OF THAT, UH, 50% THAT ARE NOW PARTICIPATING, UH, MAYBE THEY MOVE FROM ONE LEVEL TO ANOTHER, WE'D APPRECIATE IT. FOR SURE. BE GLAD TO. THANK YOU. AND THEN, UM, ON SLIDE NUMBER EIGHT, THE TRAINING FOR JOB SUCCESS IN IT YOU HAVE, UM, ON F Y SO THIS IS F Y 18 IN F Y 18, THEN 141 HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS TRANSITIONED OUT OF POVERTY. THAT WAS JUST AN F Y 2018. THAT'S FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND, THE STATISTIC. YES. EXCELLENT. ALRIGHT. AND WHAT IS THE AVERAGE AGE OF THOSE IN THIS, UM, EMPLOYMENT SKILLS PROGRAM? HI, EDWARD. HI, MADAM CHAIR. THE AGE IS, UH, AROUND 35 YEARS OLD. OKAY. UH, WE DO HAVE, UH, ALL AGE RANGES. SO THERE'S PEOPLE THAT ARE, UH, UH, OUT OF, OUT OUT OF SCHOOL FOR A WHILE COMING BACK TO GET THAT JOB ON, ON THE JOB, UH, TRAINING. EXCELLENT. UH, SEEKING THE EMPLOYMENT. SO WE WORK WITH, UH, WORK SOURCE SOLUTIONS, ALAMO, TO PICK THROUGH THEIR, UH, ON DEMAND TRAINING O OCCUPATIONS LIKE, UH, DENTAL ASSISTANTS, NURSING, AND THEN WE MATCH THOSE THROUGH THE PROGRAM AND THEN THEY FINISH. AND I THINK THE, UH, THE BIG BENEFIT IS THAT WE ARE SEEING A REALLY, UH, EXTENSIVE OR A REALLY HIGH INCREASE IN THEIR PRE, UH, POST OR PRE INCOME TO POST INCOME. SO BEFORE THEY START THE, UM, THE PROGRAM, THEY'RE AVERAGING AROUND A LITTLE LESS THAN $12,000 ANNUALLY. WHEN THEY END THE PROGRAM, THEY'RE RIGHT, RIGHT UNDER $50,000, WHICH IS AMAZING. GREAT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. UM, AND FINALLY, UM, ALEX, SO I'M SORRY, I MAY HAVE MISSED THIS, AND IT'S NOT ON THE LAST ONE. THIS IS FOR THE RENEWAL FOR HOW LONG? IT'S TECHNICALLY FOR TWO YEARS. OKAY. UM, BUT WE WOULD STILL, FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND, WE STILL ADOPT IT ON A, IT'S AN ANNUAL BASIS. OKAY. ALRIGHT. OKAY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THOSE ARE ALL, ALL THE QUESTIONS THAT I HAVE. COUNCIL MEMBER COURAGE. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. I JUST WANNA BE ABLE TO EXPLAIN, UH, THE PROGRAM FUNDING TO PEOPLE IN MY COMMUNITY. AND SO CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, BUT WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT IS REATING BACK TO THE ALAMO COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT, THE 14% IN LIEU OF TAXES THAT THE, THE CITY MIGHT COLLECT ON THEIR ELECTRIC BILL AS, AS WE DO FROM SO MANY OTHER BUSINESSES. SO REALLY WE'RE JUST SAYING WE'RE NOT GONNA KEEP THAT 14%, WE'RE GONNA GIVE IT BACK TO YOU TO RUN THESE PROGRAMS FOR US INVESTED. CORRECT. OKAY. I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE. THANK YOU, . OKAY. COUNCIL MEMBER, CAN I SHARE, UH, CAN I, CAN I JUST ELABORATE ON THAT? SURE. JUST SO THERE'S CLARITY. UH, IT THAT'S, THAT'S PRETTY CLOSE. UH, COUNCILMAN, THE STATE LAW PROVIDES THAT PUBLIC, UH, ISDS ARE NOT REQUIRED TO PAY TAXES TO ANOTHER ENTITY. AND SO YEARS AGO THERE WAS LITIGATION BETWEEN THE ISDS AND THE CITY OVER THE 14% BECAUSE A PORTION OF IT I GOTCHA. INCLUDES A FEE IN LIEU OF TAXES. RIGHT. UH, SO THAT LITIGATION OCCURRED. MEANWHILE, ALMA COLLEGES IS ALSO A PUBLIC ENTITY, FOLLOW A LAWSUIT AGAINST THE CITY CLAIMING THE SAME EXEMPTION. RIGHT. AND RATHER THAN LITIGATE THAT WITH THEM, WE ENTERED INTO A SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT WHERE WE WOULD EXCHANGE SERVICES THEY WOULD PROVIDE TO THE CITY IN EXCHANGE FOR NOT FOR A REBATE OF THAT 14%. RIGHT. I'M JUST LOOKING FOR AN EASY WAY TO EXPLAIN IT TO SOMEBODY WHO ASKS ME ON THE STREET, BUT OKAY. I UNDERSTAND MINE'S PROBABLY MORE COMPLICATED, BUT AS YOU WANTED THAT'S OKAY. AND I WILL BE VERY IMPRESSED WHEN SOMEBODY STOPS YOU ON THE STREET AND ASKS YOU A QUESTION ABOUT THIS TOO. , UM, COUNCIL MEMBER . THANK YOU, CHAIRWOMAN. UM, THIS IS FOR ALAMO ACADEMIES. IF I COULD HAVE, I HAVE A NUMBER OF QUESTIONS FOR THE, IF YOU'LL BEAR WITH ME. CAN YOU, UM, THE, THE, THE GIST OF THIS REALLY IS CAN YOU CAN EXPAND ON COHORT COMPLETION. UM, FOR THE GROUP SPECIFICALLY, HOW MANY CLASSES HAVE YOU GRADUATED? UM, HOW, WHAT KIND OF, AND HOW LONG HAS THE PROGRAM BEEN IN PLACE? SURE. SO OUR PROGRAM IS A DUAL CREDIT PROGRAM FOR JUNIORS AND SENIORS. [00:15:01] SO EACH COHORT WOULD BE STARTING AT THE BEGINNING OF THEIR JUNIOR YEAR, ENDING AT THE AS WHEN THEY GRADUATE FROM HIGH SCHOOL. OKAY. UM, SINCE WE'VE HAD FROM 2001 TO CURRENT ABOUT 18 YEARS, WE'VE BEEN IN EXISTENCE, UM, HELPING THE COMMUNITY AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT IN THE FIVE KEY AREAS SUCH AS AEROSPACE, ADVANCED MANUFACTURING. UM, THOSE WERE THEIR FIRST TWO, AND THEN IT WENT TO IT, UH, AND THEN WE INCLUDED HEALTH PROFESSIONS. AND FINALLY, A COUPLE YEARS AGO, WE INCLUDED DIESEL TECHNOLOGY. OKAY. MM-HMM. . SO, UM, AT THE, THE DESCRIPTION HERE, IT SAYS THAT IT'S GRADUATED 104 STUDENTS. THAT'S IN SINCE 2001. IS THAT CORRECT? OH MY GOODNESS, NO. OKAY. ? NO, NO. I THINK THERE'S A, SO WE'VE HAD OVER 1500 GRADUATES SINCE 2001. EVERY COHORT IT'S ABOUT A HUNDRED, 104, GIVE OR TAKE, JUST DEPENDING, BECAUSE THESE ARE DUAL CREDIT CLASSES. THERE ARE, UM, HIGHER EXPECTATIONS BECAUSE THEY'RE BUSED FROM THE HIGH SCHOOL TO THE COLLEGES FOR TWO AND A HALF HOURS A DAY. THERE'S A DEDICATION FROM THE STUDENTS TO BE AT THE COLLEGE AT THE HIGH SCHOOL, SOMETIMES AS EARLY AS SIX O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING TO TAKE THE BUS TO START CLASSES AT SEVEN 30, EITHER AT THE SOUTHWEST ST. PHILIPS CAMPUS OR SAN ANTONIO COLLEGE CAMPUS. OKAY. SO THAT'S A ACTUALLY A TWO YEAR PROGRAM THEN? IT IS A TWO YEAR PROGRAM. YES, MA'AM. I SEE. AND IS THERE ANYTHING OTHER THAN IN THE INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAM THAT'S INCLUDED IN, IN THIS PROGRAMMING? I THINK I'M HEARING SOME OF IT, YOU KNOW, THE, THE BUSING, UM, BUT IS THERE ANY OTHER KIND OF PROGRAM? SURE. SO, SO THE WAY THE STRUCTURE WORKS IS THAT THE COLLEGE, UH, WILL WAIVE TUITION, UM, AND FEES. THE HIGH SCHOOLS WILL PAY FOR TRANSPORTATION AND BOOKS. OKAY. UM, AND THEN, SO THE INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT PAYS FOR STAFFING. WE ALSO PAY FOR, UM, CERTIFICATIONS, M SS, SS C FOR ADVANCED MANUFACTURING, UM, PROTECH AND, UH, TEST OUT OR COMPTIA FOR OUR IT STUDENTS. OKAY. SO THERE, SOME OF THEM ARE GRADUATING WORK READY, THEN THEY ARE. ABSOLUTELY. THEN THAT'S THE GOAL IS THAT, UH, WITH OUR PROGRAM, THEY HAVE TO EARN INDUSTRY STANDARD CERTIFICATIONS AS WELL AS LEVEL ONE CERTIFICATIONS. THE ONLY ONE THAT DOES NOT IS OUR HEALTH PROFESSIONS. THEY'RE, UM, THE, THE BONUS FOR THEM IS THEY'RE AUTOMATICALLY ACCEPTED INTO THE SANTANA COLLEGE SCHOOL OF NURSING. AND WE'VE HAD, WE'VE SEEN AN INCREASE IN THAT EVERY YEAR. OKAY. FOR THAT RETURN. THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. I DO HAVE, UM, ANOTHER QUESTION FOR, UM, THE SMALL BUSINESS MENTOR PROTEGE PROGRAM. I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT JUST THE, UM, HOW IT'S MARKETED, HOW THIS IS MARKETED TO THE PUBLIC, AND IF THERE'S LIKE ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS AND APPLICATION, THAT SORT OF THING. SURE. SO FOR MARKETING, WE KIND OF LUMP THIS EFFORT IN WITH A VARIETY OF OTHER SMALL BUSINESS PROGRAMS WE HAVE TO OFFER. WE FIRST DO OUTREACH TO THE DIFFERENT TRADE ORGANIZATIONS, CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE AND ADVOCACY ORGANIZATIONS LIKE THE ONES WE HAVE HERE TODAY. WE MAKE SURE WE GO OUT TO THEIR MEMBERSHIPS AND DO PRESENTATIONS FROM TIME TO TIME TO MAKE SURE THEY'RE FULLY AWARE OF EVERYTHING THEY HAVE TO OFFER, UH, THAT WE HAVE TO OFFER. WE ALSO PROVIDE A LOT OF, UH, DIGITAL MARKETING THROUGH NEWSLETTER DISTRIBUTION. THE CITY HAS A CENTRAL VENDOR REGISTRY OF BUSINESSES WHO WANT TO DO WORK WITH US OR ARE INTERESTED. OKAY. UM, AND SO WE MAKE SURE WE BLAST THAT INFORMATION CONSISTENTLY THROUGH THAT CHANNEL, UH, IN ADDITION SOCIAL MEDIA AND A VARIETY OF OTHER, UH, MECHANISMS. OKAY. AND, UH, WHAT MAKES A BUSINESS ELIGIBLE TO PARTICIPATE? YOU HAVE TO BE CERTIFIED, SO WE WANNA MAKE SURE WE'RE HELPING OUR LOCAL SMALL, MINORITY WOMEN-OWNED BUSINESSES. AND YOU HAVE TO BE, UM, LIKE I SAID, LOCAL IS THE OTHER COMPONENT TO THAT AS WELL. OKAY. UM, IS MARKETING INTEGRATED INTO THE BUDGET THAT WE HAVE HERE INTO THE AMOUNT THAT WE'RE, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT? OR? SO MARKETING'S S A SEPARATE INITIATIVE THROUGH MY OFFICE, WHICH I DO FOR ALL OF THE FIVE PROGRAMS THAT I MANAGE. OKAY. OKAY. THANK YOU. THANKS. COUNCILMAN. YES. MICHAEL, EXPLAIN, UH, HOW ONE GETS CERTIFIED. SURE. COUNCILMAN, UNDERSTAND THAT. SO, THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO HAS A PARTNERSHIP WITH THE SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS REGIONAL CERTIFICATION AGENCY. AND THERE ARE A LOT OF DIFFERENT GROUPS THAT, UM, PARTICIPATE WITH THAT ORGANIZATION. BEYOND THE CITY, YOU HAVE BEXAR COUNTY SAWS AND A VARIETY OF OTHERS, AND THEY'RE THE ONES THAT PROVIDE CERTIFICATIONS TO SMALL BUSINESSES, UM, BASED ON S B A SCI STANDARDS. AND THEN FOR GENDER ETHNICITY STATUS, IT'S BASED ON WHO CONTROLS THE COMPANY. MM-HMM. , THANKS. OKAY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. COUNCIL MEMBER. ANY OTHER, ANYONE ELSE? SO, YES, COUNCIL MEMBER, UH, I WOULD MOVE THAT, UH, WE ENDORSE THIS TO THE CITY COUNCIL FOR THEIR ACTION. SECOND. ALL RIGHT. SO I HAVE A MOTION TO APPROVE, TO PROCEED TO COUNCIL A SESSION, THE CONSIDERATION OF THE RENEWAL OF INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT. UM, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. A AYE. UM, OPPOSE, SAME SIGN. MOTION CARRIES. THANK [00:20:01] YOU ALL VERY MUCH. [3. 19-5695 Briefing on the Alamo Colleges regional education and training centers [Carlos J. Contreras III, Assistant City Manager; Alejandra Lopez, Interim Director]] OUR NEXT ITEM ON OUR WONDERFUL AGENDA IS A BRIEFING ON THE ALAMO COLLEGE'S REGIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING CENTERS. SO I'LL PASS IT TO CARLOS OR ALEX TO KICK IT OFF. OKAY. I'LL JUST INTRODUCE BOB VERY, VERY BRIEFLY. ALTHOUGH MOST OF US PROBABLY LEAD ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, THE ECONOMIC AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES AT ALAMO COLLEGES, WHICH IS THE LARGEST SOURCE OF SAN ANTONIO'S WORKFORCE TALENT, CONFERRING 11,000 DEGREES IN CERTIFICATES OF 2018, THAT ALIGNED WITH HIGH DEMAND OCCUPATIONS IN OUR COMMUNITY. BOB PREVIOUSLY LED THE OF ECONOMIC AT UTS AND SERVED AS CONSULTANT. TODAY, BOB IS GONNA PROVIDE A BRIEFING ON AMO COLLEGE'S STRATEGY IN RELATION TO REGIONAL TRAINING CENTERS. THANK YOU, BOB. WELCOME BOB. GLAD TO HAVE YOU HERE. THANK YOU. GLAD TO BE HERE. CHAIR VRAN AND ALL THE MEMBERS. UH, ALEX CARLOS, THANK YOU FOR, UH, INVITING THIS, UH, PRESENTATION. UH, AS I CAME FROM THE BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT SIDE, THAT U T S A INTO THE WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT SIDE, UH, DISCOVERED THAT THERE'S A LOT OF OVERLAP. AND THOSE TWO WORLDS PROBABLY NEED TO BE CONNECTED A LITTLE BIT BETTER. AND LOOKING AT THE ROLE OF ALAMO COLLEGES IS MAINLY ON THE LABOR SUPPLY DEVELOPMENT, UH, VERSUS THE LABOR DEMAND STIMULATION, WHICH WE DO THROUGH BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT AND, UH, OBSERVING. WE HAVE A LOT OF DATA ON THE DEMAND PATTERN. WE GET REFRESHED BY SAN ANTONIO WORKS, T W C, OTHERS DO FORECAST OF WHAT THAT LABOR DEMAND, BUT THE LABOR SUPPLY, WHEN I LOOK TO TRY AND MAP THE ECOSYSTEM, WHAT'S OUT THERE, IT'S NOT FULLY COHERENT OF WHO ALL THE PLAYERS ARE. AND IF YOU CONSIDER OF A PRODUCTION LINE, WHAT ARE ALL OUR ASSETS, ALAMO COLLEGES, ALL THE WORKFORCE, DIFFERENT PROGRAMS, DELEGATE AGENCIES, WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS, ALAMOS, AND, UH, PART OF MY FIRST FLUSH OF IDEAS OR OF, UH, OBSERVATIONS IS THAT THAT'S AN AREA OF WORK THAT WE CAN WORK ON TOGETHER TO TRY AND GET THAT BETTER ALIGNMENT, MORE AS A REGIONAL INTEGRATED TALENT SUPPLY CHAIN. AND IF YOU APPLY THAT MANUFACTURING ANALOGY, ANALOGY AGAIN, HOW, HOW DO YOU BUILD THAT, UH, IN THAT LIGHT? UH, OUR MISSION OF ALAMO COLLEGES IS VERY MUCH ALIGNED WITH THE CITY'S MISSION AND THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. WE KNOW E D F IS GOING THROUGH THE NEW STRATEGIC PLAN CYCLE, WHICH IS GOING ON RIGHT NOW, UH, WHICH SHOULD CULMINATE AT THE END OF THIS YEAR WITH A REFRESH IN TERMS OF TARGET INDUSTRIES AND THE STRATEGY WE GO FOR. AT THE SAME TIME, WE'RE LOOKING INWARD IN OUR DIVISION OF ECONOMIC WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT. AND I DO HAVE SOME COLLEAGUES HERE HAVE LINDA RIVAS, WHO RUNS OUR, UH, CONTINUING EDUCATION. COLIN NICHOLS IS OVER HERE, OUR CORPORATE COLLEGE. AND OF COURSE, YOU HEARD FROM, UH, ALAMO ACADEMIES HERE ALREADY. UH, WE HAVE A TREMENDOUS ASSET, AND SOME OF YOU ARE FAMILIAR WITH THE EDUCATION TRAINING CENTERS. MOST OF, UH, HAVE KNOWN THE WEST SIDE EDUCATION TRAINING CENTER. THE WET C IS COMMONLY KNOWN, THE EAST SIDE EDUCATION TRAINING CENTER, UH, ON THE EAST SIDE. AND, UH, WE ARE INVESTING AND GROWING THOSE AS PLATFORMS FOR BOTH WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT AND AS AN ONBOARDING MECHANISM TO COMMUNITY COLLEGE. UM, SO I'D LIKE TO SHARE A LITTLE BIT OF THIS INFORMATION. UH, GREETINGS ALSO FROM OUR CHANCELLOR, UH, MIKE FLORES, AND MANY OF YOU HAVE VISITED WITH HIM AND UNDERSTAND WHEN HE CAME INTO THE ROLE. THERE'S REALLY THREE MANDATES IN HIS VISION THAT HE CAME UP WITH. ONE WE'RE QUITE AWARE OF IS THE TEXAS 60 BY 30, UH, POLICY, WHICH IS MEANS TO CLOSE EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT GAPS. SO WHERE WE HAVE A LOW LOWER ATTAINMENT AT ALL LEVELS FROM, UH, UH, PUBLIC SCHOOL AND, UH, UH, COMMUNITY COLLEGES AND, UH, TO FOUR YEAR BACCALAUREATE DEGREES, ET CETERA. WE WANT TO CLOSE THOSE GAPS. AND WE KNOW THAT, UH, YOUNG ADULTS, WE NEED 60% TO HAVE A POST-SECONDARY CREDENTIAL BY 2030. THAT'S THE OVERALL WRITING GAP. AND WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON CLOSING THOSE GAPS FOR MANY, MANY YEARS. INSTITUTIONALLY, AND I'LL, I'LL SHARE WITH YOU, OUR BOARD WATCHES THAT VERY CLOSELY, AND ALAMO COLLEGES IS TRACKING ON OUR SHARE OF CLOSING THAT GAP. BUT HERE'S THE OTHER PIVOT THAT CHANCELLOR FLOSS MADE THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT, GERMANE TO THE WORKFORCE. UH, HE CHALLENGED US TO NOT JUST CLOSE EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT GAPS, BUT ALSO LABOR DEMAND SUPPLY GAPS. AND THAT GETS INTO THE GRANULARITY OF WHAT IS THE, WHAT IS THE EMERGING LABOR DEMAND PATTERN, AND THEN WHAT ARE WE PRODUCING ALAMO COLLEGES, BUT COLLECTIVELY. AND THEN HE THREW A THIRD CHALLENGE OUT IN OUR VISION, WHICH IS VERY, VERY AMBITION, WHICH IS TO END GENERATIONAL POVERTY BY EDUCATION. AND I HAVE SOME SLIDES, I'LL TALK ABOUT THAT. BUT THAT IS REALLY ALAMO PROMISE, NOT THE TOPIC OF THIS, BUT IT'S RELATED, UH, IN A DEGREE BECAUSE, UH, HOW CAN WE IN THIS TIME, AND WE'RE AT A BIT OF A CONVERGENCE HERE, WHERE WE'VE ALWAYS HAD THE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT ARGUMENT THAT NONE OF US PICK OUR PARENTAGE OR OUR ZIP CODES YET. THAT IS THE BIGGEST DETERMINANT AS TO WHAT OUR OPPORTUNITIES ARE IN LIFE. AND WE CAN BE LEFT ON THE SIDELINES, UH, OF THE ECONOMY OF SOCIETY. UH, BUT THEN WHAT IS THE BIGGEST, [00:25:01] UH, OPPORTUNITY TO CHANGE THAT AND MOVE UP SOCIOECONOMICALLY? AND IT'S CLEARLY EDUCATION. SO THAT'S BEEN THE HUMANISTIC, UH, ARGUMENT, HUMAN DEVELOPMENT ARGUMENT. AT THE SAME TIME, WE HIT HISTORIC LOWS OF UNEMPLOYMENT, 2.8% IN JUNE FOR SAN ANTONIO, THE LOWEST IN RECORDED HISTORY THAT HAS NEVER BEEN HIT, AND WE'RE SO TIGHT. IF YOU LOOK AT THE PROJECTIONS AND THE DATA FROM THE DALLAS FED, UH, BLAKE HASTINGS AND HIS TEAM, UH, ARE THAT WE DID NOT GROW AS MUCH AS WE COULD HAVE SHOULD HAVE LAST YEAR IN SAN ANTONIO'S ECONOMY, FOR LACK OF SUFFICIENT QUALIFIED LABOR. SO THERE'S TWO THOSE TWO STREAMS OF THOUGHT IN TERMS OF WE HAVE HUMAN CAPITAL, OUR CONSTITUENTS AND CITIZENS ON THE SIDELINE THAT HAVE NOT BEEN TRAINED UP. AND THEN WE HAVE THIS DEARTH OF SUFFICIENT QUALIFIED LABOR. UH, WHAT YOU HEAR FROM YOUR CONSTITUENTS, FROM YOUR, UH, BUSINESS CONSTITUENTS IS HOW HARD IT IS TO FIND LABOR. AND THEY'RE GOING FAR AND PAYING PREMIUMS TO BRING BEGS THE QUESTION, WHY NOT TRAIN UP OUR OWN? AND TO THE DEGREE WE CAN FOCUS ON THAT, I THINK WE'LL BE ALL, I'LL BE AHEAD. SO I WANTED TO KIND OF SET THAT UP IN TERMS OF THE CONTENT. IF IT'S THERE. AS WE KNOW, UH, I THINK IT WAS LAST WEEK, THERE WAS ANOTHER HEADLINE IN THE EXPRESS NEWS, WHICH WAS ONE MORE SCOLD TO ALL OF US ABOUT OUR ECONOMIC SEGREGATION AND WHERE WE HAVE BEEN AND HOW WE NEED TO CONTINUE TO BREAK OUT OF THAT. AND CERTAINLY AS A COMMUNITY, WE'VE MADE A LOT OF PROGRESS, BUT NOT EVERYBODY IN THE COMMUNITY. SO THAT'S A GIVEN. WE KNOW THAT, UH, THESE ARE SOME DATA POINTS. UH, WE HEARD WHEN WE HAD THE RECEPTION WITH THE HISPANIC CHAMBER, AND THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL, UH, MAYOR BERG SHARED, UH, CERTAINLY WE'RE THE SEVENTH LARGEST CITY, BUT WE'RE THE CITY, BUT WE'RE THE 24TH LARGEST METRO AS AN M S A, WE'RE THE 34TH LARGEST METRO G D P. SO THAT MEANS WE ARE NOT, UH, YOU KNOW, PUNCHING AT OUR FIGHTING WEIGHT IN TERMS OF WHAT, WHERE WE SHOULD BE ECONOMICALLY AND OF GREATER CONCERN IS OUR PER CAPITA IN INCOME 160 SIXTH IN THE AREA OF METROS. SO AGAIN, THAT MEANS THAT THERE'S OPPORTUNITY TO BRING UP THE PRODUCTIVITY, UH, HIGH DEMAND, HIGH WAGE, UH, BETTER LIVING CONDITIONS FOR OUR CITIZENS. SO AGAIN, IT BEGS THAT QUESTION, HOW CAN WE BE A FIRST CLASS ECONOMY, BUT INVOLVE ALL COMPONENTS OF OUR, OUR COMMUNITY AS WELL, UH, IN THAT PRESENTATION? AND, UH, Y'ALL ARE MORE AWARE THAN US, UH, THAT THE SIGNALING WAS THAT THERE WERE FOUR MAJOR PRIORITIES GOING FORWARD FOR MAYOR AND COUNCIL IN THESE BROAD CATEGORIES. AND I JUST WANNA EMPHASIZE THAT ALAMO PROMISE AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT, OF COURSE, IS ONE OF THOSE. AS WE LOOK AT THE RESULTS OF THE E D F STRATEGIC PLAN COMING BACK IN OUR TOOLKIT, WE HAVE MANY TOOLS FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. BUT WITHIN OUR TOOLKIT, BECAUSE OF THAT TIGHT LABOR MARKET, I THINK THE IMPORTANCE OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT AS PART OF THAT TOOLKIT WILL JUST GET STRONGER AND STRONGER. UH, THIS IS THE HEAT MAP IN TERMS OF COLLEGE, UH, UH, ONGOING RATES. AND, UH, AGAIN, WE ARE WAY BEHIND, IF YOU CONSIDER THAT 60 BY 32 THIRDS OF OUR, UH, YOUNG ADULTS NEED TO HAVE A POST-SECONDARY DEGREE. WE RANGE FROM ABOUT 35% IN EDGE WORD TO 55% IN ALAMO HEIGHTS. THE OVERALL AVERAGE IS ABOUT 45% OF OUR HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES GO ON TO EVEN ATTEMPT A POST, UH, SECONDARY DEGREE. AND THE, UH, YOU'LL HEAR MORE FROM CHANCELLOR FLORES AS YOU GET INTO THE PROMISE DISCUSSION. UH, THE OBJECTIVE IS TO MOVE UP TO 70% COLLEGE GOING WEIGHT E EITHER COLLEGE OR A WORKFORCE CERTIFICATE. AND IT CAN BE DONE. THE STATE OF TENNESSEE, WHICH IS A MODEL OF THIS PROGRAM HAS MOVED UP. THEY LEAD THE NATION IN THAT. SO THAT IS THE RAW MATERIAL THAT GOES AND FUELS OUR WORKFORCE, UH, IN TERMS OF HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES AND EMPLOYMENT. AND YOU CAN SEE THE, UH, INCOME ON AVERAGE FROM WORKERS WHO JUST GET A HIGH SCHOOL DEGREE AND REALLY DON'T MAKE BARELY ENOUGH TO LIVE ON. UH, WE'VE ALSO LOOKED AT THE DIFFERENTIAL OF GETTING AN ASSOCIATE'S DEGREE, AND THAT EQUATES TO ABOUT 9,400 A YEAR. AND IF YOU EXTRAPOLATE BY THEIR, UH, WORKING LIVES, THAT'S GETTING UP IN THE, UH, CLOSE TO HALF A MILLION DOLLARS ADDITIONAL INCOME, THAT'S A HUGE DIFFERENCE IN TERMS OF RENTING VERSUS OWNING VERSUS HAVING YOUR CAR HAVE, TAKING CARE OF YOUR FAMILY, UH, BEING TAX BAKERS, UH, PAYERS BEING, UH, CITIZEN PARTICIPATION. SO THIS IS A DIFFERENCE MAKER OPPORTUNITY, UH, TO BUILD THEIR PARTICIPATION, UH, IN OUR ECONOMY. THIS IS ANOTHER SLIDE, WHICH CONTRAST THE PUBLIC SERVED AS AN OPEN ENROLLMENT INSTITUTION, MEANING ANYBODY CAN GET INTO ALAMO COLLEGES AND WE'RE THERE TO GIVE THOSE OPPORTUNITIES. UH, IT'S A BIT HARDER SLOG TO REALLY HELP THEM THROUGH THE DIFFERENT ISSUES. AND I'LL, I'LL, I'LL BREAK THEM DOWN. THE REAL BARRIERS SUCCESS ARE FINANCES, UH, THE, THE COST OF COLLEGE, BUT ALSO ACCESS, UH, AND HAVING IT READILY AVAILABLE, UH, AT THE DIFFERENT MODALITIES THAT THEY NEED AT DIFFERENT TIMES IN THEIR LIFE. THIS IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ALAMO COLLEGES, [00:30:01] UH, THE U T S A AND UT AUSTIN. AND THE TOP GREEN, UH, BOX IS REALLY THE TOP QUINTILE OF, UH, UH, ECONOMIC STRATA. AND YOU WILL SEE ALAMO COLLEGES IS MORE EVENLY DISTRIBUTED. IN OTHER WORDS, WE EVENLY SERVE ALL FIVE QUINTILES OF THE SOCIOECONOMIC DISTRIBUTION. AND YOU'LL SEE HIGHER EDUCATION IS BECOMING A BIT MORE BECAUSE OF THE COST, MORE ELITE IN TERMS OF ACCESS, WHERE THE AFFLUENT HAVE MUCH MORE ACCESS TO THIS. AND THOSE WHO ARE NOT AFFLUENT HAVE MUCH, MUCH LESS, WE KNOW THAT INTUITIVELY. BUT IT'S SOMETHING WHEN YOU LOOK AT IT, UH, IT'S, IT'S, IT HAS SYSTEMIC, UH, IMPLICATIONS. WHERE'S THAT MAP? SO, UH, ACCESS IS IMPORTANT AND I WANTED TO SHARE, WE'LL TALK ABOUT OUR TRAINING CENTERS, BUT THIS IS THE OVERALL FOOTPRINT, UH, FOR ALAMO COLLEGES. SO YOU'RE ALL AWARE OF OUR FIVE COLLEGES, BUT IN ADDITION, WE HAVE SEVEN EDUCATION AND TRAINING CENTERS, UH, THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNITY. I'M GONNA HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THOSE. AND THESE WERE STARTED, THE, THE EARLIEST ONE WAS THE WEST SIDE EDUCATION TRAINING CENTER IN THE OLD LINCOLN SCHOOL OUT ON OLD HIGHWAY 90 BY 1 51. AND THE, UH, IDEA WAS TO GET INTO THE COMMUNITY WHERE, UH, WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT NEEDS TO BE BROUGHT AND MADE ACCESSIBLE. AND THERE'S A COHORT OF PROGRAMS WHICH ARE BOTH EDUCATIONAL AND WORKFORCE ORIENTED, BUT ALSO THE WRAPAROUND SERVICES, SOME WHICH WE PROVIDE, AND SOME WHICH MANY OF YOUR DELEGATE AGENCIES AND OTHER SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCIES IN THE COMMUNITY. UH, WE DELIVER THOSE IN, IN CONCERT TOGETHER, UH, TO RESPOND TO WHAT THE NEED PATTERN, UH, IS. UH, THESE CENTERS, UH, NOT THE CAMPUSES, BUT OUR CAMPUS, OF COURSE, SERVE A HUNDRED THOUSAND STUDENTS. UH, THE CENTERS, UH, SERVED, UH, 7,000 STUDENTS, UH, LAST YEAR, PLUS 30,000 COMMUNITY MEMBERS PARTICIPATED IN DIFFERENT PUBLIC EVENTS, FOOD DRIVES, UH, UH, JOB FAIRS, COLLEGE ORIENTATION AND THAT TYPE OF THING. UH, WE DO WORK THROUGH A NETWORK OF PARTNERS, CERTAINLY FOREMOST AS A CITY OF SAN ANTONIO. UH, BUT OUR UPSTREAM PARTNERS IN TERMS OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS, AND THEN OUR DOWNSTREAM PARTNERS IN TERMS OF, UH, FOUR YEAR AND HIGHER EDUCATION. UH, BUT ALL THESE AGENCIES HERE PROVIDE HELP EITHER IN G E D E S L, WE OPERATE. ONE OF THEM IS A DREAMER CENTER AT THE BRACKET RIDGE EDUCATION TRAINING CENTER. SO WE IDENTIFY THE DIFFERENT SEGMENTS THAT NEED TO ACCESS EDUCATION AND WORKFORCE TRAINING, AND THEN WE PROVIDE MORE HOLISTIC SERVICES THROUGH THEM. I WANT TO EMPHASIZE THE, UH, ALAMO COLLEGE'S BOARD HAS MADE A MAJOR INVESTMENT IN OUR MOST RECENT BOND PROGRAM. UH, CERTAINLY ARE SEEING, UH, FACILITIES ON ALL FIVE COLLEGES, BUT WE ARE ALSO INVESTING IN THESE EDUCATION AND TRAINING CENTERS. $23 MILLION EACH ONE IS A REPLACEMENT FOR THE WEST SIDE EDUCATION TRAINING CENTER, AND TWO ARE BRAND NEW, ONE ON THE SOUTH SIDE AND ONE ON THE NORTH, UH, WEST SIDE. UH, THESE ARE JUST SOME BUILDING ELEVATIONS. WE ARE AT FINISHING SCHEMATIC DESIGN AND HOPE TO GO TO BID THIS FALL. AND SO THE FIRST ONE THAT WILL COME OUT IS THE WEST SIDE EDUCATION AND TRAINING CENTER. THERE'S A VERY ACTIVE COMMUNITY ADVISORY GROUP AND HAS DESIGNED THAT TO HAVE A MIX OF SERVICES. ONE OF YOUR DELEGATE AGENCIES, WEST SIDE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, WILL BE HOUSED WITHIN THERE AS WELL. AND, UH, THE OTHER ONE, THIS IS A GREEN GRASS LOCATION, WHICH IS WAY OUT ON THE NORTHWEST SIDE OF THE, UH, COUNTY ON SIBO CREEK AND INTERSTATE 10. AND THEN ON THE SOUTH SIDE, WE JUST HAD A TOWN HALL COMMUNITY LISTING CENTER ON THE PROGRAMMING OF THAT. UH, JUST A COUPLE WEEKS AGO. HAD A NICE OP-ED IN THE EXPRESS NEWS IN SUPPORT. SO DEVELOPING JOB TRAINING CAPACITY ON THE SOUTH SIDE, ON THE EAST SIDE. WE ARE AT A FORMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, WHICH S A I S D, UH, PROVIDES TO US FOR $1 A YEAR. THEN WE GET TO MAINTAIN IT . SO IN TERMS OF THAT CHALLENGE, WE ARE TRYING TO UPGRADE IT. WE WERE SUCCESSFUL IN GETTING A ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION FEDERAL GRANT, $1.5 MILLION. SO WE HAVE GARZA BAMBERGER WORKING ON DOING THOSE IMPROVEMENTS. SO THAT CAN BE A MORE VIABLE PLATFORM FOR THE SERVICES WE RUN THERE. DID ALICIA HERRERA AS THE DIRECTOR OF THAT, THAT CENTER. UH, SOMETHING I'D LIKE TO EMPHASIZE AND OUR CHANCELLOR EMPHASIZE IS SMART GROWTH STRATEGY. IF YOU LOOK AT JOB CREATION IN SAN ANTONIO, WHICH THIS COMMITTEE IS ALL ABOUT, UH, AND GO BACK 10 YEARS, WE HAVE A 1.1 MILLION ACTIVE WORKFORCE IN THE M S A. AND WE GROW ON AVERAGE 2% A YEAR, WHICH IS 20,000 JOBS. SOME YEARS, A LITTLE MORE, SOME YEARS A LITTLE LESS. SO 10 YEARS TAKES US BACK TO THE OH 8, 0 9 RECESSION. SO WE'VE BEEN RUNNING BASICALLY 20,000 JOBS PER YEAR. THE DEGREES AND COMPLETIONS, 13,000 IS THE OUTPUT OF ALAMO COLLEGES. SO WE ARE THE LARGEST SINGLE INJECTOR OF TALENT INTO THE ECONOMY. SOME OF OUR STUDENTS GO ON TO FOUR YEAR TRANSFER, AND THEY DO VERY WELL. THEY GO PRIMARILY TO U T S A AND TEXAS A AND M. AND WHEN THEY TRANSFER THERE, THEY HAVE A 65% GRADUATION RATE, [00:35:01] IN ESSENCE, ENRICHING THE MIX , BECAUSE THEY'VE PROVEN THEMSELVES IN THE FIRST TWO YEARS, GO IN WITHOUT AS MUCH OF A DEBT LOAD AND, AND DO VERY WELL. UH, THEN THE BALANCE OF THOSE ARE GOING RIGHT INTO THE WORKFORCE. SO, UH, OUR CHALLENGE TO OURSELVES IS BACK TO THE CHALLENGE THAT, UH, CHANCELLOR FLORES PUT OUT. WHAT ARE OUR PRODUCTION LINES OF JOBS IN SO THAT OUR OUTPUT, HOW DOES THAT MATCH, UH, THE LABOR DEMAND PATTERN? UH, FROM, UH, SA WORKS, WHICH IS ALSO A DELEGATE AGENCY. WE KNOW WE ARE IMPORTING TEACHERS, WE ARE IMPORTING HEALTHCARE WORKERS, WE ARE IMPORTING MANUFACTURING WORKERS, AND IT WORKERS A LOT. AND YOU TALK TO YOUR BUSINESSES, THE PAIN POINTS ARE THEY HAVE TO GO FAR AND PAY A PREMIUM FOR THOSE JOBS. SO AGAIN, WE MUST ASK OURSELVES, HOW CAN WE MOBILIZE TO, UH, RESPOND TO THAT AND TRAIN UP OUR, OUR OWN, OUR OWN FOLKS HERE IN SAN ANTONIO. SO THIS, THE STRATEGY WE'RE FOLLOWING IS, OF COURSE, BEING MARKET DRIVEN, A POLL SYSTEM, UH, REALLY KEEPING REFRESHED ON WHAT THE LABOR DEMAND IS, AND THEN REALLY LOOKING CRITICALLY AT OURSELVES AND THE ECOSYSTEM IN TERMS OF THE LABOR SUPPLY PRODUCTION. WHAT ARE WE OUTPUTTING AND WHERE ARE WE OVER UNDER OR MISSING THE BOAT OR NEED TO STOP TRAINING? UH, WE ACTUALLY HAVE, UH, AND SOME OF YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF THE ALAMO COLLEGES. WE GOT THE MALCOLM BALDRIGE AWARD. WE'RE ONE OF THE TOP PERFORMING WHEN WE COMPARE OURSELVES AGAINST THE COMMUNITY COLLEGES. WE ARE IN A GROUP THAT ASPEN FOUNDATION IS THE TOP 150 COMMUNITY COLLEGES IN THE COUNTRY. THEY'RE COMING IN HERE EARLY SEPTEMBER. AND WE WILL HAVE A, A, A FOCUS ON THAT POINT NUMBER TWO, WHICH WE CRITICALLY LOOK AT OURSELVES AND OUR PROGRAMS AND FIND OUT WHERE WE ARE OVER UNDER-PRODUCING, THEN GO BACK AND MAKE ADJUSTMENTS. AND THAT'S 0.3 IS REALLY THE RESPONSE. SO WE HAVE OUR ASSOCIATE'S DEGREES, THEN WE HAVE OUR CONTINUING EDUCATION, AND WE HAVE ABOUT 21 AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS OF FEDERAL AND STATE WORKFORCE GRANTS THAT ARE UNDERWAY RIGHT NOW, SERVING ABOUT 4,500 FOLKS IN HIGH DEMAND, HIGH WAGE JOBS FOR EITHER NEW JOBS OR UPSKILLING OR RESKILLING. AND THE OTHER POINT IS SOCIAL EQUITY. AGAIN, UH, ASKING OURSELVES WHO SITS IN THOSE SEATS AND WHO GETS THOSE OPPORTUNITIES. UH, AGAIN, OUR STUDENT BODY IS VERY REFLECTIVE OF THE DEMOGRAPHICS, UH, IN THIS COMMUNITY AND FROM ALL PARTS OF OUR COMMUNITY. UH, WE LOOK AT, UH, A VERY KEY POINT THAT I'D LIKE TO SHARE, AND I SHARED WITH RENEE DOMINGUEZ A LOT WHEN HE WAS HERE, IS OPPORTUNITY COST. UH, THE GROWTH IN SAN ANTONIO LAST YEAR WAS MUCH LESS THAN IT COULD HAVE, SHOULD HAVE BEEN. TEXAS GREW AT 2.4%. G D P SAN ANTONIO AT 1.4. THAT'S A FULL POINT LESS. AND IT WAS BECAUSE OF LACK OF EFFICIENT LABOR. BUT WHAT WAS THE OPPORTUNITY COST? OUR G D P IN SAN ANTONIO IS $130 BILLION. SO ONE PER 1% LESS MEANS WE LOST 1.3 BILLION IN BUSINESS IN OUR COMMUNITY BECAUSE WE CANNOT FILL THE SEATS WITH QUALIFIED LABOR. THAT IS THE, THE OPPORTUNITY COST. AND THAT HAS A, A, A, A VIRTUOUS CYCLE EFFECT IN TERMS OF WHAT THE TAX BASE IS, WHAT THE JOB OPPORTUNITIES, ET CETERA. SO COMPARE THAT VERSUS THE INVESTMENTS IN WORKFORCE. AND IT'S CLEARLY AN AREA WHERE WE NEED TO RATCHET IT UP AND, UH, SEE WHAT WE CAN DO TO PROVIDE THAT. SO AGAIN, THE BEST ALTERNATIVE IS TO GROW OUR OWN VERSUS IMPORTING SO MUCH. UM, BACK TO, UH, THE MAIN BARRIERS, AND THIS IS KIND OF OUR ONE TWO PUNCH IN TERMS OF THE EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT THAT IS REQUIRED FOR THE WORKFORCE. YOU'LL HEAR MORE ABOUT ALAMO PROMISE, WHICH REALLY GOES TO THE HEART OF THE FINANCIAL IMPEDIMENT TO EDUCATIONAL, UH, ADVANCEMENT. AND THEN ACCESS, WHICH IS HAVING OUR SEVEN EDUCATIONAL TRAINING CENTERS, PLUS OUR, UH, FIVE CAMPUSES AND WITH OUR HIGH SCHOOL PARTNERS, WHICH ARE EARLY COLLEGE, HIGH SCHOOL, AND DUE CREDIT, THAT'S OVER 50 ACCESS POINTS FOR EDUCATIONAL SERVICES ACROSS THIS COMMUNITY OVERALL. SO THAT MAKES IT ACCESSIBLE. WE HAVE VIA BUS PASSES FOR ALL OUR STUDENTS, ANYBODY THAT NEEDS IT. WE ARE STANDING UP STUDENT ADVOCACY CENTERS, WHICH ADDRESS FOOD INSECURITY, CLOTHING INSECURITY. WE HAVE HOMELESS STUDENTS LIVING IN THEIR CARS ON OUR PARKING LOTS. UH, WE HAVE, UH, UH, STUDENTS WHO HAVE COME OUT OF THE FOSTER CARE SYSTEM AND THEY GET FREE TUITION BUT DON'T HAVE HOUSING, THOSE TYPES OF THINGS. SO WE, WE HAVE TO BE MARKET DRIVEN AND UNDERSTAND THESE TYPES OF ISSUES THAT ARE SHOW UP IN THE HIGH SCHOOL WITH FREE LUNCH PROGRAMS, ET CETERA. THEY DON'T STOP JUST BECAUSE THEY GO TO 13TH GRADE. RIGHT? SO, UH, WE'RE, WE'RE WORKING ON THAT. OBVIOUSLY WE'VE ALL TALKED ABOUT THE LONG-TERM GROWTH OF GETTING 1.1 MILLION ADDITIONAL RESIDENTS, AND THAT MEANS A HALF MILLION JOBS. AND REALLY WHAT'S COMING ON HERE, AND WE ARE IN A GOOD ECONOMY. SOME OF US JUST CAME FROM THE SAM A LUNCH WHERE BLAKE HASTINGS LAID OUT. WE'RE DOING WELL. BUT, UH, PUT UP HERE A LITTLE WARNING. OH, OH, , WE HAVE TO WATCH OUT. WE ARE MONTH 120 OF ECONOMIC EXPANSION. THAT IS A MODERN HISTORY RECORD AS WELL. [00:40:01] MOST ECONOMIC EXPANSIONS GO 59 MONTHS. WE ARE WAY PAST THAT. THERE WILL BE A CORRECTION OR A RECESSION AT SOME POINT. UH, WE KNOW IN OUR BUSINESS, IN, UM, UH, EDUCATION AND WORKFORCE, WE ARE MOSTLY COUNTERCYCLICAL. IN OTHER WORDS, WHEN THE ECONOMY GOES DOWN, THE DEMAND GOES UP. WHEN THE ECONOMY'S GREAT, EVERYBODY CAN HAVE AT LEAST SOME KIND OF JOB. SO THOSE ARE THINGS ON OUR, ON THE HORIZON. UH, I'M SURE YOU'RE WATCHING THE, UH, DIGITAL ECONOMY AND THE AUTOMATION COMING UP. UH, A LOT OF THE PROGNOSTICATIONS, UH, UH, REALLY LOOK AT LARGE BUSINESSES ARE GONNA BE SOME OF THE BIGGEST JOB DESTROYERS AROUND AS AUTOMATION OCCURS. AND CERTAINLY WE'RE LOOKING AT, YOU KNOW, DRIVERS AND THOSE TYPES OF THINGS. SO THOSE WILL PLACE DEMANDS ON US, AND IT'S OUR, OUR POSITION TO BE PREPARED TO WORK ON THE UPSKILLING AND THE INCLUSION OF, UH, THE, OUR, OUR, OUR WORKERS IN, IN THE MODERN ECONOMY RIGHT NOW. SO WITH THAT, THAT'S JUST AN OVERVIEW. I WANTED TO SHARE WITH YOU THOSE ASSETS. UH, WE DO HAVE A VERY GOOD RELATIONSHIP WITH THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT AND, UH, THE ECONOMIC S A E D F, BUT ALSO THE WORKFORCE COMMUNITY. UH, THE OBSERVATIONS ARE REALLY, I THINK, WHERE WE CAN, UH, TIGHTEN UP AND IMPROVE HOW WE'RE DOING SERVICE DELIVERY GOING FORWARD. AND I SEE A CONFLUENCE EMISSIONS OF WHAT THE CITY WANTS TO DO IN TERMS OF ECONOMIC WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT, WHERE ALAMO COLLEGES IS GOING. SO TO THE DEGREE THAT WE CAN LEVERAGE OFF OF EACH OTHER AND HELP EACH OTHER OUT, THAT'S WHAT WE'RE HERE TO DO. SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR TIME AND ATTENTION. ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS? THANK YOU, BOB, UH, VERY MUCH FOR THE PRESENTATION AND JUST, UM, I'M GLAD THAT YOU'RE THERE, UH, TO, TO HELP WITH US AS WE'RE, WE'RE GOING THROUGH THIS AND ALIGNING ALL OF OUR STRATEGIES TOGETHER, WHICH I THINK IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT. UM, ONE THING I WANTED TO ASK, UM, WELL QUICKLY IS WHAT IS YOUR, DO YOU KNOW THE AVERAGE AGE OF THOSE WHO ARE GOING INTO YOUR, UM, EDUCATION AND TRAINING CENTERS? IT'S ABOUT 27. OKAY. YEAH. AND YOU TALKED ABOUT, YOU SAID 7,000 ARE ACCESSING THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING CENTERS. CORRECT. IS THAT IN TOTAL OR AT THAT'S LAST YEAR IN 18. THOSE ARE ENROLLED STUDENTS, TO CLARIFY. SO THOSE ARE ENROLLED STUDENTS TAKING EITHER WORKFORCE OR, UH, ACADEMIC CREDITS THROUGH THE CENTERS. BUT IN ADDITION, THERE ARE 30,000, UH, PUBLIC. WE, WE KEEP, YOU KNOW, THE, THE TRAFFIC TICKER, SO TO SPEAK. UH, BUT WE HAVE A MONTHLY, WE HAVE THE, WE WORK WITH THE FOOD BANK, WE DO FOOD DISTRIBUTION. UH, WE PROVIDE A LOT OF, UH, FEDERAL FINANCIAL AID APPLICATIONS AND THE, THE TEXAS SUCCESS INITIATIVE, WHICH IS THE COLLEGE ENROLLMENT. SO WE DO A LOT OF HANDS-ON, UH, ASSISTANCE TO FOLKS THAT, UH, DO NOT HAVE THE, THEIR, UH, THE EXAMPLE OF THEIR PARENTS, REALLY. THEY'RE THE FIRST GENERATION STUDENTS AND THEY NEED A LOT OF HANDHOLDING. ANOTHER AREA, FRANKLY, ADDRESSES THE DIGITAL DIVIDE. WE HAVE COMPUTER LABS THAT ARE OPEN MM-HMM. . AND WE WILL GO INTO THE EVENING, GO INTO SATURDAY. THERE ARE MANY CITIZENS IN OUR COMMUNITY THAT COME BACK AND THEY, THEY HAVE EITHER NO ACCESS OR VERY LIMITED COMMUTER COMPUTER SKILLS. SO THEY COME IN AND YET THEY USE OUR COMPUTERS. UH, THEY COME HOME FROM THE DOCTOR AND SAID, THE DOCTOR TOLD ME I HAVE TO BE ON A PORTAL TO GET MY, MY, MY X-RAYS AND I DON'T KNOW HOW TO DO IT. AND, BUT THAT LEADS TO A NUMBER, ACCESS TO PUBLIC SERVICES AND EVEN PRIVATE SECTORS MORE AND MORE IS DEPENDENT. AND SO, UH, THERE'S A RANGE OF SERVICES THAT ARE PROVIDED THROUGH THE CENTERS. AND WHAT WE TRY TO MEET, WHAT WE SAY MEET, MEET OUR, OUR, UH, PUBLIC AND OUR STUDENTS WHERE THEY'RE AT MM-HMM. DEVELOPMENTALLY, AND THEN HAVE SOME SOLUTIONS THERE FOR THEM. AND SO FOR THE SOUTH SIDE EDUCATION AND TRAINING CENTER, YOU, YOU HAD A TOWN HALL MEETING TO GET INPUT ABOUT WHAT SERVICES WOULD BE NEEDED IN THE COMMUNITY, CORRECT? CORRECT. CORRECT. AND WHAT IS THE, AND SORRY, I APOLOGIZE TO MY COUNCIL COLLEAGUES 'CAUSE I'M GONNA START ASKING JUST ABOUT THE SOUTH SIDE ONE THAT, THAT'S GREAT. UM, NO, UH, WHAT IS YOUR TIMELINE THAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT WITH THE SOUTH SIDE EDUCATION AND TRAINING CENTER? WE HOPE TO BREAK GROUND ON THAT IN Q ONE OF NEXT YEAR. OKAY. AND IT'LL TAKE ABOUT 15 MONTHS TO BUILD MM-HMM. AND THEN OPEN AFTER THAT. AND, UH, YOU MIGHT RECALL WE HAD A MORNING SESSION WITH BUSINESS EMPLOYERS IN AFTERNOON WITH FAMILIES, UH, AND STUDENTS AND DIFFERENT, AS YOU CAN IMAGINE. AND THE EMPLOYERS, UH, TALKED ABOUT WHAT THEY NEEDED AND MOSTLY THE SERVICE ECONOMY, BUT TRY AND DIVERSIFY. YOU HAVE THE TJ MAXX, THE LOGISTICS MM-HMM. THAT GOES ALONG WITH THAT. OF COURSE, TOYOTA'S RIGHT THERE. SO THE, UH, TECHNICIAN ROLES, UH, THE STUDENTS THAT REALLY GOT MY ATTENTION WERE SOME SENIORS THAT SAID, BROADBAND IS HORRIBLE THERE. WE COME INTO THE, IN, IN THE WHOLE AREA AND THEY CONGREGATE. THEY COME INTO THE CENTER TO HAVE ACCESS TO THAT, AND THEN THEY GET INTO THEIR INTEREST, AND THAT'S WHERE WE CAN CATCH 'EM AND TALK ABOUT CAREERS. MM-HMM. UM, SO JUST TO ADD MY VOICE TO SOME OF THE SERVICES AS WE LOOK AT THIS, UH, SOUTH SIDE EDUCATION CENTER, BECAUSE IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE CONTINUE TO ALWAYS HEAR IS, UM, PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION [00:45:02] VIA DOESN'T GO THAT FAR OUT TO, UM, THAT AREA. SO WE NEED TO HAVE THAT ACCESS, UM, IF WE'RE GOING TO TAKE AWAY THOSE BARRIERS THAT DO EXIST, UM, FOR MM-HMM. FOR SOME OF THE, UH, MEMBERS IN HERE. AND I HAVE TO AGREE, ONE OF THE ISSUES THAT WE ARE SEEING IS, UM, THE MAKING SURE THAT THE, THE HIGH PAY, UM, THAT WE'RE STARTING TO INCREASE, HOW MUCH WE ARE GETTING PAID HERE IN OUR COMMUNITY, AND HOW MUCH OUR MEMBERS ARE, OUR RESIDENTS ARE GETTING PAID IN THIS COMMUNITY TOO. THAT'S ALL OF THE QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS I HAVE AT THIS TIME. UM, COUNCIL, COLLEAGUES, ANYBODY, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER. GABRIELLE. HELLO, BOB. THANK YOU FOR THE WORK YOU'RE DOING SPECIFICALLY AT THE WEST SIDE EDUCATIONAL TRAINING CENTER. MM-HMM. , MM-HMM. , THE WET SEA HAS PLAYED A STRONG ROLE IN UPLIFTING THE, THE EDGEWOOD NEIGHBORHOOD, SO I'M GRATEFUL FOR, FOR THEIR PRESENCE THERE. MM-HMM. . UM, I, I, THERE WAS A, A STATISTIC THAT YOU NOTED IN, IN EDGEWOOD. THERE'S, I THINK IT WAS IT 35%, UM, ENROLLMENT IN COLLEGE, AND OF COURSE THAT'S THE NUMBER THAT YOU'RE WORKING ON. RIGHT. BUT I WANT TO, AND I DO LOOK FORWARD TO THE COMPLETION OF THE NEW BUILDING. I THINK IT'S GONNA BE, I'VE OFTEN SAID THAT THE WET SEA IS ALREADY, I'M GONNA TAKE MY TIME AND DO THE WEST SIDE NOW. UM, GREAT. UM, THE, UM, IT'S BEEN A JEWEL THERE, BUT THE NEW FACILITY IS GONNA BE ABSOLUTELY SHINING JEWEL, AND I'M EXCITED FOR THE RESIDENTS OF THAT, OF THAT AREA. BUT, UH, I WANNA JUST POINT OUT, YOU'RE NOT LIMITED TO TRAINING PAST HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION. UM, THERE ARE PROGRAMS THERE THAT, THAT CURRENTLY EXIST THAT GET YOU AT LEAST TO A HIGH SCHOOL EQUIVALENCY. RIGHT. CAN YOU SPEAK TO SOME OF THOSE PROGRAMS? YES. AND WE HAVE OUR IBES PROGRAMS, BASIC EDUCATION, AND THESE ARE FOR MOSTLY ADULTS BACK IN THAT 27, 30, EVEN 35 RANGE, THAT TEST AT MATH AND ENGLISH IN THE NINTH GRADE OR LOWER. SO WE REALLY HAVE TO HAVE INTENSIVE, UM, UH, COACHING AND MENTORING AND OR OUR GOAL THERE IS TO TRY THEM, BRING THEM UP SO THEY CAN BE THEN ENTERED INTO A WORKFORCE PROGRAM OR TO COMMUNITY COLLEGE. AND, UH, WE HAVE VERY INTENSIVE RATIO OF ADVISORS. WE CALL THEM CAREER NAVIGATORS. SO IT'S REALLY HELPING THEM UNDERSTAND WHERE THEY ARE IN LIFE. AND MOST OF THEM ARE STUCK IN THOSE, YOU KNOW, MAKING NINE, 10, $12,000 A YEAR. AND THEY WORK REALLY HARD AND MANY OF THEM HAVE FAMILIES, ET CETERA. THEY WORK REALLY HARD AND THEY'RE STUCK AND, UH, FOR WHATEVER REASON THEY'VE BEEN FAILED IN THEIR EDUCATIONAL ADVANCEMENT. SO THAT'S A REAL KEY AREA THAT WE FOCUS ON IN, IN BRINGING THOSE IN THE, UH, G E D AND E S L. UH, AND ACTUALLY WE HAVE SOME DUAL GENERATION PROGRAMS. SO WHERE WE HAVE STUDENTS THAT MIGHT BE FIRST TIME IN COLLEGE AND WE'RE HELPING THEM APPLY TO COLLEGE, THEIR PARENTS COME WITH THEM AND SAY, OH, YOU CAN TRAIN ME TOO, SO MY, MY, MY CHILD CAN GET TRAINING AND, AND GET INTO COLLEGE AND THEN I CAN GET WORKFORCE TRAINING. SO WE HAVE THOSE TYPES OF, UH, EFFORTS AS WELL AS WELL, FAMILY SERVICES ASSOCIATION ASSOCIATES, UH, HELP US WITH, UH, FINANCIAL LITERACY. AND THAT'S A BIG ISSUE. 'CAUSE WHEN YOU HAVE LITTLE RESOURCES, MAKING THE MOST OF THEM AND UNDERSTANDING HOW YOU CAN HAVE OR GET OR REPAIR CREDIT, UH, AND THOSE TYPES OF THINGS. SO THERE, THERE'S A WHOLE RANGE OF SERVICES THAT, AGAIN, RESPOND TO WHAT THOSE, THOSE NEEDS ARE. BUT ULTIMATELY THE GOAL IS TO BE AN ON-RAMP FOR EITHER A WORKFORCE CERTIFICATE OR GETTING INTO AN ASSOCIATE'S OR, OR HIGHER. SO THERE'S A LOT OF, PART OF WHAT WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON IN ALAMO COLLEGES IS HELPING THE DISCERNMENT OF WHAT DEGREE TO GO INTO, AND I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, BUT MANY OF US, YOU KNOW, AS TEENAGERS, SOMETIMES YOU DON'T HAVE A CLEAR PATH AND YOU WANDER A LITTLE BIT. UH, WE'VE APPLIED WHAT WE CALL THE ALAMO INSTITUTES, WHICH ARE, UH, SEVEN AREAS THAT BASICALLY MATCH THE TARGET INDUSTRIES. AND TO ENROLL IN ALAMO COLLEGES, YOU NEED TO PICK ONE OF THOSE INSTITUTES, YOU KNOW, HEALTHCARE, MANUFACTURING, IT, ET CETERA. AND AS YOU GO THROUGH YOUR CAREER, YOU, YOU GET, GET NARROWED INTO THAT. SO THERE'S A LOT OF ADVISING. THE OTHER WE ARE WORKING ON REALLY HARD IS GETTING RID OF EXTRANEOUS CREDITS AND CREDITS THAT DO NOT TRANSFER UP TO FOUR YEAR OUR AVERAGE CREDITS FOR, UH, ASSOCIATES OR YOUR GRADUATE AS, AS I UNDER, I'M NEW THERE, BUT I UNDERSTAND ABOUT FIVE YEARS AGO WAS UP IN THE EIGHTIES. NOW WE'VE GOT IT DOWN TO 67 AND A HALF. SO THE, OF COURSE ASSOCIATE'S DEGREE IS 60. SO WE'RE CUTTING OUT AND SQUEEZING OUT EXTRANEOUS CREDITS AND COST BY, UH, A LOT MORE HANDHOLDING AND ADVISING SO THEY CAN GO THROUGH THEIR SELF DISCERNMENT. YOU CAN'T TELL ANY STUDENT, YOU MUST BE IT, YOU MUST BE MANUFACTURING. YOU HAVE TO FIND OUT WHAT THEIR APTITUDES ARE AND THEN WHAT THEIR, THEIR PASSION ARE IS, AND THEN HELP CHANNEL THAT THROUGH A FORMATION PROCESS THAT THEY, THEY CAN BE REALIZED IN THEIR, IN THEIR CAPACITIES, BUT ALSO IN THE MARKETPLACE. MM-HMM. , THANK YOU. YOU, UH, COUNCILWOMAN COUNCIL [00:50:01] MEMBER COURAGE. THANK YOU, MA'AM. UH, YOU HAD SAID THAT YOU CAME FROM A BACKGROUND OF, UM, DEVELOPING BUSINESS. CORRECT. AND NOW WE'RE LOOKING, YOU'RE LOOKING AT DEVELOPING WORKFORCE, SO TO SPEAK. YEAH. AND YOU SAID THERE, THERE DIDN'T SEEM TO BE A GOOD MESH BETWEEN THOSE. HOW DO YOU, HOW DO YOU SEE US COLLECTIVELY AS A COMMUNITY TRYING TO MESH THOSE TOGETHER MORE? WELL, FIRST OF ALL, IN ONE OF OUR VALUES AT ALAMO COLLEGES IS BEING DATA DRIVEN. SO THAT'S WHY WE'RE DOING THIS EXERCISE WITH ASPEN. SO WE'RE REALLY GOING TO LOOK AT THOSE OUTPUTS FOR VERSUS DEMAND. I THINK WE HAVE SOME GOOD INTEL BETWEEN, UH, SA WORKS AND T W C ON THE LABOR DEMAND PROJECTIONS, UH, WHERE THAT THE, THE CRYSTAL BALL COMES IN ON THE AUTOMATION. UH, AND WE UNDERSTAND IN TERMS OF BUSINESS, SOME OF THE STUDIES SAY IF A ROBOT CAN DO A PERSON'S JOB, UH, THE EMPLOYER WILL PAY ABOUT A 15% PREMIUM. AND THEN WHEN IT STARTS GETTING ABOUT 16 AND 18, 20% MORE EFFICIENT TO GO TO AUTOMATION, THEY'LL DO THAT. UH, A LOT OF THE IMMIGRATION DEBATE IS THAT, YOU KNOW, MANUFACTURING IS GOBS HAVE GONE OVER OVERSEAS. THAT'S A COMPLETE FALSITY. IT'S REALLY AUTOMATION, REALLY AUTOMATION THAT'S SQUEEZING JOBS OUT. SO, UH, UNDERSTANDING THAT DYNAMIC AND HOW THAT WILL PLAY YOU, YOU HAVE TO LOOK AT THE COMPOSITION OF THE SAN ANTONIO ECONOMY. AND THERE'S SOME INDUSTRIES THAT LEND THEMSELVES TO BEING AUTOMATED AND OTHER ONES THAT DO NOT. I KNOW MY DAUGHTER'S A NURSE IN HEALTHCARE AND SHE'S GONNA HAVE PLENTY OF US , SHE WENT TO SAC AND ST. PHILLIPS. SHE'S GONNA HAVE PLENTY OF US TO TAKE CARE OF. SO THERE'S RESILIENCE IN THAT. SO THERE'S THE AUTOMATION PIECE. THE OTHER ONE IS THE SILVER TSUNAMI, WHICH IS THE RETIRING BABY BOOMERS. AND IT'S COMPLETELY PREDICTABLE. DEMOGRAPHERS KNOW EXACTLY HOW MANY BABY BOOMERS ARE OUT THERE, BUT IT'S AMAZING HOW SLOW AND WITH BLINDERS ON THAT, A LOT OF, UH, EMPLOYERS ARE NOT LOOKING AT THAT. SO, YOU KNOW, THAT, THAT, THAT'S ANOTHER VARIABLE. AND THE THIRD VARIABLE BEYOND STRAIGHT LINE PROJECTIONS IS INTENTIONALITY. AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE DOING WITH S A E D F AND OUR TARGETED INDUSTRIES. 'CAUSE WHEN WE PICK TARGET INDUSTRIES AND WE'RE SUCCESSFUL BRINGING 'EM IN, WE'RE BASICALLY ENRICHING THE MIX OF JOBS HERE WITH MORE, UH, HIGH WAGE, HIGH PRODUCTIVITY JOBS. AND SO THAT'S THE OTHER PART WE NEED TO PREPARE FOR. UH, SO TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION IN TERMS THAT'S THE DEMAND PATTERN, BUT AGAIN, YOU KNOW, WE NEED TO GO BACK AND LOOK, LOOK, LOOK AT THE SUPPLY. AND WE'VE TALKED A LOT WITH, UH, ADRIAN AND ALEX AND THE E D D TEAM. I THINK THAT'S WHERE YOU'RE AT AS WELL. WELL, YOU, UH, MENTIONED ON SLIDE, UH, 14, YOU INDICATED THERE WERE ABOUT 20,000 JOBS THAT ARE CREATED IN THE METRO AREA, CORRECT? ANNUALLY. CORRECT. AND, UH, A C D UH, HAD 13,000 DEGREES OR CERTIFICATES. HOW MANY OF THOSE 13,000 DEGREES AND CERTIFICATES FIT INTO WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THAT 20,000 JOB OPENINGS ARE, ARE YOU HITTING 50%, 60%, 40%? THEY ALL, THEY ALL, THEY ALL GET ABSORBED INTO THE ECONOMY. WE'RE NOT QUITE SURE IF THEY'RE IN THEIR FIELD. LIKE, YOU KNOW, IF, IF YOU STUDY TO BE A, A MACHINE OPERATOR AND IF WE'RE OUTPUTTING 500 MACHINE OPERATORS, BUT THERE'S ONLY 300 MACHINE OPERATOR OPENINGS, THEN YOU HAVE A SURPLUS OF 200. RIGHT. SO WE HAVE TO GET MORE GRANULAR AND GO ACROSS THAT TO, TO FIND OUT WHAT THAT IS. YEAH, I THINK THAT WOULD BE USEFUL. BUT THEY ALL GET ABSORBED IN SOME JOB, BUT, UH, YOU'LL END UP WITH UNDEREMPLOYMENT. SO THOSE 200 MACHINE OPERATORS MIGHT BE DRIVING A TAXI OR WORKING AT A RESTAURANT OR IN RIGHT. AT A HOTEL. AND, UH, SO, BUT THEY INVESTED IN THEIR EDUCATION TO BECOME MACHINE OPERATORS . RIGHT. AND SO HOW CAN WE CALIBRATE THAT SO WE GET A LITTLE MORE, IT'LL NEVER BE PERFECT, BUT HOW CAN WE DO A BETTER ALIGNMENT? ARE WE KIND OF, ARE, ARE YOU GOING TO BE FOLLOWING THAT TO SEE, UH, ARE THE DEGREES AND THE CERTIFICATE CERTIFICATES ARE GETTING BLENDING INTO THE WORKFORCE NEEDS? OR ARE THEY BECOMING TAXI CAB DRIVERS OR, YOU KNOW, WAITERS IN A RESTAURANT BECAUSE THEIR DEGREE ISN'T FITTING INTO WHAT WE'VE GOT OUT THERE? RIGHT. YES. THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT WE WANNA LOOK AT. AND WE HAVE, I WOULD SAY WE HAVE PARTIAL DATA ON THAT NOW. MM-HMM. OF THE FEDERAL AND STATE GRANTS. WE HAVE, WE HAVE PRETTY TIGHT MONITORING OF THOSE. BUT THE GENERAL EDUCATION NOT AS MUCH. UH, DATA FOLLOWING IS DIFFICULT. WE HAVE A LOT OF TRANSFERS THAT GO ON TO U T S A AND YOU KNOW, A AND M. THEN T S U, AUSTIN AND COLLEGE STATION ARE THE FIVE WHERE WE SEND MOST OF OUR STUDENTS, SOMETIMES THEY TRANSFER AND THEY NEVER REALLY BOTHER TO CROSS THE STAGE WITH AN ASSOCIATE. SO IT LOOKS LIKE AN INCOMPLETE, YET THEY HAVE ENOUGH CREDITS AND WENT ON TO DO THAT. PART OF WHAT IN THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT WORKFORCE INDUSTRY WE'RE TRYING TO GET TO IS LONGITUDINAL FOLLOWING. RIGHT. SO GETTING INTO THE T WC DATABASES AND HAVING INDIVIDUAL IDENTIFIERS, BUT STILL PROTECTING THEIR IDENTITY SO WE CAN SEE IF THEY ARE GAINFULLY EMPLOYED AND THEN IF THEY'RE GAINFULLY EMPLOYED IN THEIR FIELD OF STUDY. SO I THINK THAT'S THE NEXT HORIZON THAT'S COMING UP. IS THAT A FAIR STATEMENT? YES. I GOT SOME OF MY EXPERTS OVER HERE. , YOU MENTIONED THIR, YOU HAVE 13,000 INDICATED [00:55:01] HERE. BUT THEN, UM, ON, LET'S SEE, SLIDE EIGHT, YOU SHOW YOUR PARTNERS. SO HOW MANY OF THESE 13,000 WERE EXCLUSIVELY A C D? UH, DO YOU KNOW IF, IF YOU'RE ONLY TALKING ABOUT A C D FOR THOSE 13, HOW MANY OF THE REST OF THESE PARTNERS ALSO PRODUCED, UH, PEOPLE WITH CERTIFICATES OR COMPLETIONS TO MOVE ON TO SOMETHING ELSE? THE 13,000 ARE ALL A C D. OKAY. THEY ALL WALK THE STAGE. SO YOU DON'T KNOW HOW MANY OTHERS THESE PARTNERS MAY HAVE PRODUCED. CORRECT. THAT'S THE SENSE MAKING THAT WE'RE AT RIGHT NOW, IS TRYING TO MAP THAT ECOSYSTEM, SEE WHAT THE THROUGHPUTS ARE. UH, FIRST I THINK WE'LL GET RAW NUMBERS AND THEN WE'LL GET MORE QUALITATIVE ABOUT IT. OKAY. ALRIGHT. THANK YOU. MADAM CHAIR. YES. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER GONZALEZ. THANK YOU. UH, THANKS FOR THE PRESENTATION. I JUST, YOU, WHEN YOU STARTED YOUR REMARKS MM-HMM. , YOU SAID THAT THE CHANCELLOR HAD GIVEN THREE GOALS. CORRECT. AND YOU SAID AT ALAMO 60 30, SO THAT'S 60% OF OUR POPULATION HAS A CERTIFICATE BY 2030. CORRECT? THAT'S, UH, FOR THE ADULT. I THINK IT'S FROM 18 TO 30 YEARS OLD OR SO. AND WHERE ARE WE NOW? I'D HAVE TO GO BACK AND GET THAT. I KNOW. UH, THAT COMES FROM THE TEXAS HIGHER ED COORDINATING BOARD. SO IT FLOWS OUT TO ALL THE HIGHER ED IN INSTITUTIONS AND THEN WE'RE ALLOCATED OUR PROPORTIONATE SHARE. UH, I KNOW WE, WE FOLLOW THAT VERY CLOSELY. SO, UH, BASICALLY WE WE'RE, WE'RE RUNNING AHEAD OF PACE AND I'LL GET YOU THAT DATA POINT, BUT ALAMO COLLEGE IS RUNNING AHEAD AND THEN, UM, UH, UH, RAYMOND ES, THE HIGHER ED COMMISSIONER PUTS THAT OUT ON ANNUAL, SO WE CAN GET YOU THE STATEWIDE DATA AS WELL. I FEEL LIKE SOMEBODY IN THIS ROOM PROBABLY KNOWS, BUT UM, IF, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN JUST SHOUT IT OUT, YOU KNOW. UH, OKAY. UM, BECAUSE IT'S, UM, IT'S FAST RIGHT. YOU KNOW, 10 YEARS IS NO TIME. SO, UM, AND THEN, AND THEN, UH, THE LAST ONE YOU MENTIONED IS ABOUT ENDING GENERATIONAL POVERTY BY EDUCATION, BUT WHAT WAS NUMBER TWO? UM, CLOSING THE LABOR DEMAND AND SUPPLY GAPS. SO WHAT WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT IN TERMS, AND IT'S AN ORIENTATION, UH, OF BEING MARKET DRIVEN. SO AGAIN, LABOR DEMAND PATTERN, WHAT ARE THE JOB OPENINGS TODAY AND TOMORROW? AND THEN, UH, WORKFORCE AND EDUCATION OUTPUTS AND HOW THOSE TWO, UH, FIT. SO THIS IS A BIT OF A MANUFACTURING ANALOGY, BUT BACK TO THAT TERMINOLOGY OF BEING A REGIONAL INTEGRATED SUPPLY CHAIN. AND IF YOU THINK OF, YOU'VE ALL BEEN TO TOYOTA AND YOU KNOW, TRUCKS COME OUT ONE A MINUTE, AND THEN THERE'S THIS WHOLE SUPPLY CHAIN AND IT'S COMES FROM ALL OVER THE PLACE AND IT SHOWS UP IN TRACTOR TRAILERS, AND THEN IT GOES IN THE VARIOUS SUPPLIERS, AND THEN IT GOES THAT IT'S ASSEMBLED AND IT COMES OUT. SO THERE IS A LOGISTICAL INTELLIGENCE, LET'S SAY, HERE'S OUR BEST GUESS OF HOW MANY TUNDRAS AND TACOS WILL BE BOUGHT. AND AS A CONSEQUENCE, YOU REVERSE ENGINEER AND SAY, HERE'S ALL THE COMPONENTS THAT WILL NEED TO GO INTO PRODUCING THAT. SO THAT'S THE MANUFACTURING ANALOGY OF WHAT IS THE DEMAND PATTERN HERE, AND THEN HOW CAN WE ALIGN TO THAT. AND AGAIN, IT WILL NEVER BE PERFECT. THERE'S A BIG HUMAN FACTOR HERE, . AND WE HAVE SOME BIG, UH, CHALLENGES TO OVERCOME. UH, HOWEVER, IF WE, PART OF THE LESSON IS TRYING TO BE MARKET DRIVEN. SO THERE'S A GOOD CHANCE OF GETTING A, A GOOD JOB WHENEVER YOU FINISH YOUR WORKFORCE OR EDUCATION. OKAY. THANK YOU. I THINK THAT WAS ALL THE QUESTIONS I HAD. AND THEN, YOU KNOW, ABOUT RE ABOUT ENDING THE GENERATIONAL PROPERTY BY EDUCATION, THAT WOULD BE THROUGH THE ALAMO PROMISE. YES. AND UM, SOME OF YOU MAY HAVE HEARD CHANCELLOR FLORES AND, UH, HE COMES AT IT FROM A COUPLE ANGLES. UH, ONE IS HIS OWN PERSONAL HISTORY AND THAT MIRRORS A LOT OF PEOPLE IN SAN ANTONIO'S HISTORY WHERE, UH, A MODEST MEANS AND THEN HIS PARENTS GETTING EDUCATION AND, UH, GOING ON. THEN HIM ABLE TO GO ACTUALLY BEING IN TOW WITH HIS MOM WHEN SHE WENT TO SCHOOL. UH, BUT IN, IN ADDITION TO THAT, THERE'S RIGOROUS, UH, UH, SOCIAL STUDIES IN EFFECT OF, THERE'S A LOT OF FACTORS THAT THEY, THEY STUDY THE QUINTILES OF SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS OR INCOME AND THE ABILITY TO, TO JUMP ONE OR TWO QUINTILES AND ALL THE DIFFERENT FACTORS THAT MAY MAKE THAT POSSIBLE. AND THE, THE, THE STRONGEST FACTOR, UH, BY FAR IS HIGHER EDUCATION. SO THAT'S WHERE HE'S COMING FROM IN TERMS OF, UH, UH, DOING THAT. UH, THE OTHER, UH, BOARD OF TRUSTEES DIRECTION IS, UH, WE'RE NOT REALLY GONNA DO PILOT AND BOUTIQUE PROGRAMS. IF WE WANT TO MOVE THE NEEDLE, WE HAVE TO DO IT AT SCALE. AND SO THAT'S WHAT WE ARE REALLY COMMITTED TO. 'CAUSE WE HAVE THE THROUGHPUT OF THE STUDENTS AND WE HAVE THE ASSETS, WHICH ARE THE FACILITIES I WAS TELLING YOU ABOUT, AND WE HAVE THE PARTNERSHIPS, UH, TO REALLY ENGAGE ON THIS. SO THOSE, THOSE AGAIN, ARE THE THREE CLOSING EDUCATIONAL GAPS, LABOR DEMAND, SUPPLY GAPS, AND THEN [01:00:01] SOCIAL EQUITY AND WRAPPING THAT TOGETHER IN, IN AN INTENTIONAL APPROACH. OKAY. GREAT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. OKAY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? ALL RIGHT. WELL WONDERFUL. THANK YOU FOR THE BRIEF. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. AND I APPRECIATE, LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU ALL. APPRECIATE ALL OF THE WORK THAT YOU ALL ARE DOING, ESPECIALLY THAT WE START MOVING IN THE SAME DIRECTION AS A CITY, AS OUR, UH, NONPROFITS, AS OUR PUBLIC ENTITIES AS WELL. MO LOOKING TO MOVE THAT NEEDLE. GLAD TO SEE THAT WE'RE AT THE MOST HISTORIC, UM, NUMBERS OF UNEMPLOYMENT, BUT WE ALSO NEED TO KNOW THAT WE'RE GETTING THE RIGHT SKILLS FOR OUR FUTURE AS WELL AS, UM, ADDRESSING THE ISSUES OF, UM, UNDEREMPLOYMENT, UH, FOR OUR RESIDENTS TOO. SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH, BOB. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. UM, ONE THING I DIDN'T GET TO SAY, IT WASN'T ON THIS AGENDA, BUT ONE THING, UM, WERE THERE ANY CITIZENS TO BE HEARD THAT SIGNED UP? NO. OKAY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. WELL, UM, LASTLY, I WANTED TO LET MY COLLEAGUES KNOW THAT IF YOU HAVEN'T HAD A, A MEETING YET WITH, UM, CARLOS AND, AND OR ALEX, UM, JUST TO TALK ABOUT WHAT WE'RE GOING TO BE VISIONING FOR THE NEXT TERM AND THE NEXT COUPLE OF MONTHS FOR THIS COMMITTEE. WE'LL BE DOING THAT. I'LL BE MEETING WITH YOU ALL TOO TO SEE WHERE WE GOING AND WHAT ARE WE GONNA BE LOOKING AT, AT, FOR THIS, UM, ECONOMIC WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL COMMITTEE SO WE CAN START LOOKING AT THINGS THAT WE NEED TO PUT ON THE AGENDA AND HAVE DISCUSSION ON. SO WITH THAT, THANK YOU. AND WE STAND ADJOURNED. GOOD JOB. WELL DONE. * This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting.