What's New Governor Appoints Stokes to Workforce Opportunity Council Governor Jeanne Shaheen appointed SEA member and Department of Labor Employee Paul Stokes to the Workforce Opportunity Council earlier this year. We'll be able to look out for the rights of workers. Stokes serves on the committee with two other labor representatives, New Hampshire AFL-CIO President Mark Mackenzie and IBEW Business Agent Marcel Tancrede. The Workforce Opportunity Council was created with the passage of the federal Workforce Investment Act and is charged with advising the Governor on how federal funds generally dedicated to employment and workforce training should be allocated. Business leaders and State Department heads also sit on the council.
Similar councils exist in each state.
Two and one half years working for the Department of Employment Security and a job at the Department of Labor has prepared Stokes well for a seat on the Council. The Council met four times in 1999 beginning in late September. Stokes said they will submit a 5-year plan on New Hampshire's employment and training to the federal government in April 2000.