Three-county workforce board elects new chair

The Workforce Investment Board of Butler, Clermont and Warren Counties elected at its September meeting a new chair and two vice chairs to lead the 19-member board, according to administrator Adam Jones.

The board is a three-county government agency that decides employment program priorities, the amount of training dollars residents are eligible for and requests contract proposals for carrying out services such as operating OhioMeansJobs centers, according to Ohio Department of Job and Family Services. It is one of 20 workforce investment boards statewide funded by the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2014, according to Ohio Job and Family Services, which allocates the federal dollars.

Board members represent business, government and education sectors. The act provides funding for dislocated worker training, youth job training and low-income or underemployed adults who are searching for new jobs, state officials have said.

John McMahan, director of human resources for DRS Technologies Inc. of Clermont County, is now the board chair. Kenny Craig, president and chief executive officer of Greater Hamilton Chamber of Commerce, was named one of two vice chairs; and Richard Jones, vice president of business development of Peoples Bank, was also named vice chair; according to Adam Jones.

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