Veteran Training Division
American Village of Hope (AVH) primary proposes to focus workforce development on training for veterans and the disabled communities for jobs in the emerging green industries and to provide support and marketing advice for green industries.
Through a feasibility study AVH has found the following:
(1) There is a growing global demand green for products and services that reduce the impact on the natural environment by individuals, businesses, governments, and any other entity.
(2) There is a common international perception that Florida has not develop a well defined green identity.
(3) Florida’s resources could be used to build a vibrant and strong green industry sector that creates high wage jobs for Florida veterans through the development and export of value added products and services designed to reduce our collective impact on the environment.
(4) Florida must create a framework that stimulates the innovation and investment necessary to expand the development of new renewable energy sources and distribution capacity.
(5) Florida’s green economic development strategy must be designed to raise Florida’s profile as a hub of environmental integrity, innovation, and opportunity for working Floridian.
WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT PLAN; GREEN ECONOMY JOB
TRAINING;MARKET FEASIBILTY; PILOT PROJECT
(a) AVH is conducting a labor market feasibility for the green economy sector. For the
purposes of this feasibility, “green economy sector” means companies and organizations
that offer products and services that protect or enhance the earth’s natural
systems; encourage the use and development of clean energy sources; or directly or
indirectly reduce negative impacts on the environment, and “environmental enterprise
employee” means an employee in a full-time capacity primarily engaged in the provision
or implementation of goods or services that protect or enhance the earth’s natural
systems, engaged in developing new sources of clean energy, or directly or indirectly
engaged in reducing reduce negative impacts on the environment. The feasibility shall
be a comprehensive analysis of green industry sector that creates high wage jobs for
Florida veterans through the development and export of value added products and
services designed to reduce our collective impact on the environment.
(4) Florida must create a framework that stimulates the innovation and investment
necessary to expand the development of new renewable energy sources and distribution
capacity.
(5) Florida’s green economic development strategy must be designed to raise Florida’s
profile as a hub of environmental integrity, innovation, and opportunity for working
Floridian.
WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT PLAN; GREEN ECONOMY JOB
TRAININGMARKET FEASIBILTY; PILOT PROJECT
(a) AVH is conducting a labor market feasibility for the green economy sector. For the purposes of this feasibility, “green economy sector” means companies and organizations that offer products and services that protect or enhance the earth’s natural systems; encourage the use and development of clean energy sources; or directly or indirectly reduce negative impacts on the environment, and “environmental enterprise employee” means an employee in a full-time capacity primarily engaged in the provision or implementation of goods or services that protect or enhance the earth’s natural systems, engaged in developing new sources of clean energy, or directly or indirectly engaged in reducing reduce negative impacts on the environment. The feasibility shall be a comprehensive analysis of occupations and jobs that we are bridging into our manufacturing operation.
The feasibility shall:
(1) Provide an accurate estimate of the number of environmental enterprise employees working in jobs in all relevant industries that use or develop clean energy sources or directly or indirectly reduce negative impacts on the environment and the relative economic impact of each employee in each industry. The relevant industries include:
(A) Agriculture, forestry, and mining.
(B) Construction.
(C) Manufacturing.
(D) Wholesale and retail trade.
(E) Utilities and transportation.
(F) Information technology services and software development.
(G) Financial services.
(H) Professional, scientific, and technical services.
(I) Waste management and remediation.
(J) Education, health, and social assistance.
(K) Arts, recreation, hospitality, and food service.
(L) Public administration.
(2) AVH is developing regional profiles in order to identify the nature of concentration and distribution of green economic opportunities in Florida.
(3) AVH is determining the skills and competencies necessary for success in environmental employment and the green economic sector.
(4) Include the sector analysis described in subsection (b) of this section.
(b) AVH is conducting a sector analysis of the market for environmental goods and services and the potential economic benefit of the green economy sector for Florida.
PILOT PROJECT; SECONDARY SCHOOL; ACADEMY OF APPLIED
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; GREEN CURRICULA
(a) AVH is partnering with institution of higher learning to develop a plan for creating virtual academies for applied science and technology as partnerships between communities and public and private Florida colleges and universities.
(b) AVH education partners are implementing a pilot program that incorporates the Engineering the Future, Science, Technology, and the Design Process curriculum into four schools throughout Florida.
(c) AVH department of economic development shall make curricular recommendations to AVH educational partners based on the skills feasibility for secondary schools to fulfill the requirements of the labor market for environmental employment.
(d) AVH department of economic development shall recommend approaches for encouraging workforce training and business opportunities in green activities within traditional industries. The recommendations shall be issued in a written business plan to the AHV board members on or before December 1, 2009. The recommendations shall encourage training in the following areas:
(1) Energy supply. Improve the efficiency of supply and distribution, carbon capture and storage, switching from coal to gas, renewable fuels, or sources, combining heat and power, and nuclear energy, and capturing and storing carbon.
(2) Transportation. Increase the use of fuel efficient vehicles, biofuels, public transportation and nonfuel transportation modes such as walking and bicycling.
(3) Building. Increase the use of efficient lighting, electrical appliances, heating and cooling systems, passive and active solar retrofits, and intelligent meters and controls.
(4) Industry. Increase the use of more efficient, end-use electrical equipment, material recycling and substitution, heat and power recovery, and control of non-CO2 gas emissions.
(5) Agriculture. Increase soil carbon storage with crop and grazing land management, restoration of degraded soils and wetlands, manure management and nitrogen fertilizer use, and biofuel crops to replace fossil fuels.
(6) Forestry. Increase reforestation, afforestation, improved forest management, value-added processing for harvesting wood, use of biofuels, remote sensing to improve vegetation, and soil carbon sequestration.
(7) Waste. Improve and increase landfill methane recovery, waste incineration with energy recovery, recycling and waste minimization, and composting organic waste.
AVH INTERSHIP PROGRAM
AVH has created a program to facilitate the processing of applications for internships and
alternative education grants from next generation funds. This office shall be funded by funds allocated to administrative support for these programs.
Sec. 5. 10 V.S.A. § 531(a)(1) is amended to read:
(a) The secretary of commerce and community development may issue grants to any employer, consortium of employers, or contract with providers of training, either individuals or organizations, as necessary, to conduct training under the following circumstances
(1) when issuing grants to an employer or consortium of employers, the employer promises as a condition of the grant to increase employment or provide training to enhance employment stability at an existing or expanded eligible facility within the state where eligible facility is defined as in subdivision 212(6) of this title relating to Florida economic development authority, or the employer or consortium of employers promises to open an eligible facility within the state which will employ persons, provided that for the purposes of this section, eligible facility may be broadly interpreted to include employers in sectors other than manufacturing including the fields of information technology, telecommunications, health care, engineering, and environmental technologies; and Sec. 6. 10 V.S.A. § 543(f) is amended to read: (f) Awards. Based on guidelines set by the council, the commissioner of labor shall make awards to the following: (1) Training Programs. Public, private, and nonprofit entities for existing or new innovative training programs. There shall be a preference for programs that include training for newly created or vacant positions, with no less than 20 percent of the funding awarded to training for jobs in the green economy. Awards may be made to programs that retrain incumbent workers. Awards under this subdivision shall be made to programs or projects that do all the following:
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(2) Internship Program. Public and private entities for internship programs that match Florida employers with students from public and private secondary schools, regional technical centers, the Community High School of Florida, and colleges. For the purposes of this section, "internship" means a learning experience working with an employer where the intern may, but does not necessarily receive academic credit, financial remuneration, a stipend, or any combination of these. Awards under this subdivision may be used to fund the cost of administering an internship program and to provide students with a stipend during the internship, based on need. Awards may be made under this section to organizations that implement dual enrollment programs that result in recruitment for internships. Awards may be made only to programs or projects that do all the following:
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