OWD Issuance 17-2023: Statewide Local Area Negotiation Policy

The purpose of this policy is to establish a local negotiations policy for the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Title I and Wagner Peyser (WP) programs operated by the Office of Workforce Development (OWD). This policy will help ensure a uniform process is followed to establish performance goal related targets for local regions while incorporating the use of a local area statistical model and establishing how the statistical model will be used in assessing local performance at the end of each program year.