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Meeting details
Date: Thursday, June 18, 2020 Time: 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Location: Skype meeting due to COVID-19 Committee members present
• Michele Besso • Jonathan DeVaney • Michael Gempler • Rosalinda Guillen • Rosella Mosby • Delia Peña • Erik Nicholson
Non-voting agency representatives
• Uriel Iñiguez • Ignacio Marquez • Todd Phillips
Committee members absent • Ramon Torres
ESD staff • Dan Zeitlin • Alberto Isiordia • Norma Chavez • Tamara Johnson • Rene Maldonado • Craig Carroll • Sara Crosby
Guests
• Mike Schulte • Juan Martinez • Gustavo Aviles
Summary Meeting Recorded This meeting was recorded and is available on https://esd.wa.gov/newsroom/Ag-committee
Welcome and Introductions Employment Security Department (ESD) Policy Director, Dan Zeitlin, welcomed everyone and asked Tamara Johnson to take roll. All committee members were present except Ramon Torres.
Agenda Dan Zeitlin reviewed the agenda for the meeting and asked if anyone had any questions. (See Addendum I.)
Meeting Minutes Dan Zeitlin requested that everyone review the meeting minutes for June 4th, 2020 and provide their feedback. Erik Nicholson made a motion to approve the minutes for June 4th, 2020. Mike Gempler seconded the motion. Meeting minutes were approved. (See Addendum II.)
Agricultural and Seasonal Workforce Services Advisory Committee
https://esd.wa.gov/newsroom/Ag-committee
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H-2A Application Data Report Norma Chavez reported on H-2A application data.
Applications # Applications # Workers Received/Processed 218 21,108 Withdrawn 16 1,753 Impossibilities 3 231
Interpreter Request Mike Gempler made a motion to have a Spanish Interpreter present at all meetings going forward. Jon DeVaney seconded. Request was noted.
H-2A Verification & Referral Process Sara Crosby facilitated the final portion of the previous discussion on Improvement Ideas for the H-2A Verification & Referral Process. (See Addendum III.) Improvement Ideas - Impact Worksheet will be emailed as homework to committee members with a requested return date of June 26th. (See Addendum IV.)
Wagner-Peyser Grant Alberto Isiordia, Mike Schulte and Juan Martinez presented a report which answered questions that were posed at the May 23, 2020 Wagner-Peyser presentation. (See Addendum V.)
Chat Transcript Due to Skype recording function error, the chat transcript of the ASWS Advisory Committee Meeting for June 18, 2020 has been attached to the meeting minutes for reference. (See Addendum VI.)
Action Items • What percentage of the funding sources are being used for H-2A program? • Letter to Governor regarding furloughs • Cost analysis of doing the H-2A Workers in the State Report • Chart trend of H-2A Workers in Washington – report out September
Agenda Items for Next Meeting • H-2AVerification & Referral Process • Budget • Update Covid-19
Public Comments Ryan Ogburn Dulce Gutierrez Henry Bennett Anne Fischel
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Adjourned Dan Zeitlin thanked everyone for their continued active participation and for their commitment to this work, then ended the meeting at 12:14 p.m.
2020 Meetings
The next Agricultural and Seasonal Workforce Services Advisory Committee meeting is on: • July 2nd, 2020 – 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Skype meeting
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Contact information
Dan Zeitlin, Director of Policy, Data, Performance & Integrity Division [email protected]
Employment Security Department ● Policy, Data, Performance and Integrity
mailto:[email protected]