Regional Workforce Investment Board (RWIB)
The Regional Workforce Investment Board (RWIB), appointed by the Governor in consultation with the Chief Elected Official (CEO) board, plays a leading role in establishing policy for the region's Workforce Development Center System. The RWIB also selects the WIA service providers, directs the activities of the Youth Advisory Council, and shared responsibility for many other duties with the CEO board, including selection of the Coordinating Service Provider and overseeing the regional Workforce Development Center system's service delivery. Each RWIB shall have five voting members from business and five voting members from labor, and shall include one county elected official, one city official, and one representative of a school district, and one representative of a community college.
Region 8 has an additional 14 members of the RWIB, which include two representatives of community-based organizations, two representatives of economic development agencies, a Workforce Development Center system partner, and other individuals are representatives on other appropriate entities.
The majority of the Regional Workforce Investment Board members must represent business and the chairperson must represent the business sector. The Regional Workforce Investment Board meets quarterly.
Audubon County
Peggy Smalley, Audubon
Carroll County
- Barry Bruner, Bruner & Bruner Law Firm, Carroll
- Steve Schulz, DMACC, Carroll
- Connie Pudenz, Turbine Fuel Technologies, Carroll
- Barb Quandt, West Central Cooperative, Ralston
- Gary Riedmann, St. Anthony Regional Hospital, Carroll
- Susan Ehlers, Arcadia
- Carolyn Schoenherr, Glidden
- Karen Churchill, Carroll
- Denise Hubert, IWD, Carroll
Crawford County
- Judy Gronau, Vail
- Diane Hargens, WITCC, Denison
- Dennis Lally, UFCW Local 440, Denison
- Kevin Fineran, Job Corps, Denison
- Eric Skoog, Cronk’s Café, Denison
Greene County
- Carlotta Wilde, Genesis Development, Jefferson
Guthrie County
- Carla Grasty, AEA11, Stuart
- Luann Waldo, Central Iowa Publishing, Bayard
- Robert Witowski, Panora
- Karen Sievers, Guthrie Center
Sac County
- John Winkelman, Howard Center, Sac City
- Joan Godbersen, City of Odebolt