The objective of this project is to create a long-range community-based mechanism for dealing with various employment problems in Merced County. The procedure will be designed so that it may be used as a model for other communities.The initial step is to survey personnel directors and business executives to identify Merced County employment problems and potential solutions. A permanent volunteer task force of personnel executives and representatives of appropriate government agencies would be established. The task force would review survey data, make recommendations, and become an ongoing committee and sounding board for dealing with county-wide employment problems. The successful efforts of the task force would result in increased employment in Merced County, improve the quality of employment in the county, raise the qualifications of the local labor pool, and provide improved communication and coordination among local employees and employment resources.Commercial applications would include: (1) creation of a central source of information on varied employment/personnel issues and (2) development of a local community training center for clerical training, employment workshops, management training, and possibly other trade school training.Office Of Human Development Services
