(a) The City hereby establishes a Committee on City Workforce Alignment (“Alignment Committee”) comprised of City employees and community representatives as provided below. The Alignment Committee shall coordinate Workforce Development Services across City departments in order to increase their effectiveness through methods such as program evaluation and deduplication of client data. The Alignment Committee also shall establish a definition of the term “workforce development” that shall be uniformly adopted across City departments, as well as a shared approach to Workforce Development Services that leads to measurable system success.
(b) The Alignment Committee shall be comprised of 17 members:
(1) Seat 1 shall be held by a member of the Board of Supervisors or a City employee designated by the Board (with the department head’s approval);
(2) Seat 2 shall be held by the Director of the Office of Economic and Workforce Development, or the Director’s designee;
(3) Seat 3 shall be held by the Executive Director of the Human Rights Commission, or the Executive Director’s designee;
(4) Seat 4 shall be held by the Executive Director of the Human Services Agency, or the Executive Director’s designee;
(5) Seat 5 shall be held by the Director of the Department of Children, Youth and Their Families, or the Director’s designee;
(6) Seat 6 shall be held by the General Manager of the Public Utilities Commission, or the General Manager’s designee;
(7) Seat 7 shall be held by the Director of the Department of Human Resources, or the Director’s designee;
(8) Seat 8 shall be held by the Director of the Department of Public Health, or the Director’s designee;
(9) Seat 9 shall be held by the Director of Public Works, or the Director’s designee;
(10) Seat 10 shall be held by the Director of the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, or the Director’s designee;
(11) Seat 11 shall be held by the Chief Adult Probation Officer, or the Chief Adult Probation Officer’s designee;
(12) Seats 12 and 13 shall be held by public representatives who, at the time of their appointments, are employed by Nonprofit Corporations that provide Workforce Development Services to low-income San Francisco residents and those with barriers to employment, appointed by the Mayor to serve for a three-year term;
(13) Seat 14 shall be held by a public representative who is affiliated with a labor organization and has leadership experience and demonstrated expertise in workforce development systems, policies, and programs, including registered apprenticeship programs, appointed by the Mayor to serve a three-year term;
(14) Seats 15 and 16 shall be held by public representatives who, at the time of their appointments, are employed by Nonprofit Corporations that provide Workforce Development Services to low-income San Francisco residents and those with barriers to employment, appointed by the Board of Supervisors to serve for a three-year term;
(15) Seat 17 shall be held by a public representative who is affiliated with a labor organization and has leadership experience and demonstrated expertise in workforce development systems, policies, and programs, including registered apprenticeship programs, appointed by the Board of Supervisors to serve a three-year term.
(c) The appointment of public representatives is intended to ensure adequate representation of the priority sectors of the local economy as designated in the Local Plan, and of persons with expertise in racial equity and in serving transitional age youth, homeless individuals, and re-entry populations.
(d) The Director of Workforce Development shall convene and chair the Alignment Committee. The Mayor may annually appoint one or more members of the Alignment Committee to serve as co-chairs with the Director of Workforce Development. The Mayor or Director of Workforce Development may invite additional City departments that administer Workforce Development programs to present to the Alignment Committee as needed for short-term City strategic planning needs.
(e) The Alignment Committee shall establish an appropriate organizational structure and resourcing mechanisms to advance its work, including staffing and funding for special projects as recommended by the Economic Recovery Task Force.
(f) To the extent allowable by the Charter, local, state, and federal law:
(1) The Alignment Committee, by March 15, 2024, and every five years thereafter, shall submit to the WISF for its review and comment a Citywide Workforce Development Plan, which shall include an assessment of existing workforce development services, the City’s anticipated workforce development needs from the Office of Economic Analysis, benchmarks for system efficacy, documentation of partnerships and mission alignment across the entire workforce development system, and measurable progress towards identified benchmarks. The Citywide Workforce Development Plan shall include goals and strategies for all Workforce Development Services in San Francisco and a projection of the funding needed to achieve the goals, consistent with the October 2020 COVID-19 Economic Recovery Task Force Report, the San Francisco Racial Equity Framework developed by the Office of Racial Equity, and the current Local Plan approved by WISF.
(2) The Alignment Committee, by March 15, 2025, and every two years thereafter, shall submit to the WISF for review and comment updates to the Citywide Workforce Development Plan that include (A) a summary of the City’s implementation of the plan, including data detailing departmental performance metrics solicited through the annual Citywide Workforce Services Inventory due in December of each year, (B) a summary of changes to federal and state funding, (C) a summary of current fiscal year programs and expenditures for Workforce Development Services, (D) recommended funding levels for new and existing collaborative programs and initiatives in furtherance of workforce system alignment for the next fiscal year, (E) a statement of priorities to guide the allocation of unanticipated funding that becomes available for Citywide Workforce Development Services during the annual budget process or during the fiscal year, and (F) progress towards benchmarks identified in the Five-Year Plan.
(g) The Director of Workforce Development shall submit the five-year Citywide Workforce Development Plan, and each plan update, to the Board of Supervisors.
(h) The Alignment Committee may provide guidance to City departments on the meaning of the terms used in the definition of Workforce Development Services in this Chapter 30, either in the Citywide Workforce Development Plan or through other policy guidance.
(i) The Alignment Committee shall meet at least every four months.
(j) Any member of the Alignment Committee who fails to attend at least half of the meetings held in a calendar year shall be deemed to have resigned from the committee. In that event, the Alignment Committee or its representative shall notify the member’s appointing authority of the vacancy on the committee created by the constructive resignation.
(Added by Ord. 209-22, File No. 220879, App. 10/6/2022, Eff. 11/6/2022)
(Former Sec. 30.5 added as Sec. 30.8 by Ord. 270-07, File No. 071056, App. 11/26/2007; redesignated as Sec. 30.7 and amended by Ord. 84-14, File No. 140260, App. 6/13/2014, Eff. 7/13/2014; redesignated as Sec. 30.5 and amended by Ord. 269-19, File No. 190499, App. 11/21/2019, Eff. 12/22/2019; redesignated as Sec. 30.7 by Ord. 209-22, File No. 220879, App. 10/6/2022, Eff. 11/6/2022)