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545 SW Second St. Suite A
Corvallis, OR  97333
email: Region4wib@csc.gen.or.us

“To Build and Maintain a High Quality Workforce for 
Linn, Benton, and Lincoln Counties  

PUBLIC NOTICE  
The Linn, Benton, Lincoln Workforce Investment Board Education/Workforce Task Force will meet on May 16, 2008, at 1:30 pm, in the Corvallis office of Community Services Consortium, 545 SW Second Street, Agenda items will include discussion of the video contest and other items that may come before the task force. This meeting is open to the public.
PUBLIC NOTICE  
The Linn, Benton, Lincoln Workforce Investment Board will meet on May 19, 2008, at 1:30 pm, in the Linn County Fair and Expo Center, 3700 Knox Butte Road, Albany, OR.  Agenda items will include election of officers, election of Executive Committee members, presentations by Cylvia Hayes, Director of 3E Strategies, and Circuit Court Judge Janet Holcomb, committee reports, and other items that may come before the Board. This meeting is open to the public. 
PUBLIC NOTICE
The Linn, Benton, Lincoln Workforce Investment Board Executive Committee will meet on June 5, 2008, at 2:00 pm, in the Corvallis office of Community Services Consortium, 545 SW Second Street. This meeting is open to the public.

Regional Strategic Investment Plan
2007-2008

To support the retention and growth of quality jobs, a skilled workforce and competitive businesses in Linn, Benton, and Lincoln Counties (Region 4). The emphasis of the funds is to upgrade skills of the private sector workforce (limited to the training of current employees only) in order to increase productivity, keep the businesses in Region 4 viable and competitive, and to offer new skills and opportunities to Region 4’s workers.
The Workforce Investment Board of Region 4 recognizes that the Workforce Investment Act provides the opportunity to build a public-private partnership that is dynamic in nature, far reaching in scope, and has the capacity to improve the economic well being of its citizens and communities. 
  • We are here to build and maintain a high quality workforce for Linn, Benton, and Lincoln counties and the state of Oregon by determining current and future workforce needs, and ensuring that those needs are met.
  • Promoting a high level of awareness between the region's employers and the workforce development system about workforce needs and the importance of investing in the development of their own workforces. 
  • Our purpose; Provide policy and direction related to the appropriate evaluation and training of individuals who meet the criteria for service as prioritized by the Board.

Equal Opportunity Is the Law

The Region 4 Workforce Investment Board (WIB) is a recipient of Federal Assistance and recognizes its responsibilities.  It is against the law to discriminate on the following bases: Against any individual in the United States, on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, political affiliation or belief; and against any beneficiary of programs financially assisted under Title I of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA), on the basis of the beneficiary's citizenship/status as a lawfully admitted immigrant authorized to work in the United States, or his or her participation in any WIA Title I-financially assisted program or activity. The WIB must not discriminate in any of the following areas: deciding who will be admitted, or have access, to any WIA Title I-financially assisted program or activity; providing opportunities in, or treating any person with regard to, such a program or activity; or making employment decisions in the administration of, or in connection with, such a program or activity. 

WHAT TO DO IF YOU BELIEVE YOU HAVE EXPERIENCED DISCRIMINATION:

If you think that you have been subjected to discrimination under a WIA Title I-financially assisted program or activity, you may file a complaint within 180 days from the date of the alleged violation with either: The recipient's Equal Opportunity Officer (or the person whom the recipient has designated for this purpose); or The Director, Civil Rights Center (CRC), U.S. Department of Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue NW, Room N-4123, Washington, DC 20210. If you file your complaint with the recipient, you must wait either until the recipient issues a written Notice of Final Action, or until 90 days have passed (whichever is sooner), before filing with the Civil Rights Center (see address above). If the recipient does not give you a written Notice of Final Action within 90 days of the day on which you filed your complaint, you do not have to wait for the recipient to issue that Notice before filing a complaint with CRC. However, you must file your CRC complaint within 30 days of the 90-day deadline (in other words, within 120 days after the day on which you filed your complaint with the recipient). If the recipient does give you a written Notice of Final Action on your complaint, but you are dissatisfied with the decision or resolution, you may file a complaint with CRC. You must file your CRC complaint within 30 days of the date on which you received the Notice of Final Action.

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