25-062 Amskills tenth anniversary and UF partnership

1:21:29Okay, we're now gonna take up our time certain. Sorry, sorry, those of you here for the resolutions. Um But we'll get to you in a second. So could those that are here for the 1115 Time Certain, that's Amskills and the University of Florida and Whoever else wants to attend, please approach the mic. I think we have some board members here. And a welcome to the Pasco County Board of Don't usually have that much public comment, but Coming

1:22:00from the storms and all the things happening here. We had a full morning of it. Up, our screens just went out.

1:22:08Oh. Okay, so um good morning uh Tom. Does does he have to do name and address? Okay, name and address for the record. Thank you.

1:22:16Do our proclamation.

1:22:18Oh, um Yeah, we can do the proclamation first. The resolution? The resolution, yes. Yes,

1:22:22ma'am. I'll I'll go ahead and read the resolution. Resolution number let me make sure I got the right one. Yes, 25-062 resolution by the Board of County Commissioners of Pasco County. Florida recognizing the 10th anniversary of Amskills, whereas Amskills was formed in 2014 as a Florida not-for-profit organization established as an economic development initiative to help manufacturers recruit, train, and sustain a skilled workforce with the mission of transforming lives and strengthening communities through

1:22:53workforce training and apprenticeships for youths, adults, veterans, the uniquely abled. And the economically disadvantaged. And RAS AMSkills has spent the last decade transforming lives by providing hands-on technical training programs designed to prepare individuals for in-demand careers in skilled trades and manufacturing. And RAS, the Amskills Career Directory Boot Camp Program, has helped hundreds of adults by offering a unique immersive experience that prepares individuals to meet the needs of local employees. Fostering a skilled

1:23:23workforce aligned with industry demands and facilitating the launch of new careers. And RAS AMSkills has pioneered first of its kind programs for adults, including youth and adult pre-apprenticeships and apprenticeship programs, and offering nationally recognized micro-credentials and industry certifications for machining, robotics, and mechatronics. Correct. Which have set new standards for workforce development and created pathways to success for individuals of

1:23:53all ages and backgrounds. NRES AMSkills has demonstrated an unwavering commitment to youth development by establishing a scalable high school workforce training mod model started at Anclode High School and set to expand to two additional schools in Pasco County in 2025. Designed to assist our public, private, and homeschooled students overcome difficulties in implementing career and technical education and providing students with practical skills, industry-recognized certification, and a clear path

1:24:23to career success. And RAS Amskills has expanded its community impact by constructing the first Amskills Workforce Innovation Center, a 15,000 square foot advanced management. Manufacturing training facility in Holiday, Florida. The facility is intended to spark redevelopment and training opportunities for underserved residents, providing greater access to resources and support for economic revitalization of the region.

1:24:59And contributing to the vibrancy and economic stability of Pasco County. Now, therefore, be it resolved by the Board of County Commissioners of Pasco County, Florida, that said board hereby recognizes Amskills on its 10th anniversary and celebrates the accomplishments they have achieved over the past 10 years and looks forward to the future as Amskills continues to transform the lives of members within our community. Done and resolved in regular session with a quorum present and voting this tenth day of December 2024. Thank you.

1:25:27Move

1:25:28approval.

1:25:28Second.

1:25:30Rocal vote.

1:25:32District one, Commissioner Oakley. District two, Commissioner Weightman.

1:25:37District four, Commissioner Yeager. District five, Commissioner Mariano. Aye. District three, Chairman Starkey. Aye. Okay.

1:25:44Good morning and welcome. Good morning. My name is Tom Madano. I'm the president CEO of AMS Skills and I just want to thank uh the Pasco County Commission for uh your foresight. Ten years ago you all uh really saw the connection between workforce development and econom uh workforce and economic development. And essentially that is why we are created to help uh with that specific area. While our primary purpose has been to help the manufacturing industry,

1:26:14we first focus on the person and that results in helping to fill these much needed jobs in this industry and others. We are a 501 C three, um, and as a result of that, we've been creating solutions specifically to Identify what are the problems that are facing in our schools, as well as recruiting in these industries and trying to come up with solutions that address that. As a result, we've created a pathway that clearly takes somebody who has no skills or has no idea about

1:26:45these valuable skill industries and careers and help them not just get into the industry, launch a career. but also continue to upskill to help uh them get to higher wages. As a part of this journey, we've uh achieved numerous national certifications that are recognized by these industries. We've received articulation agreements with our local colleges. We've established the first Florida Department of Education pre-apprenticeship and apprenticeship in

1:27:15several of our occupations in the advanced manufacturing industry. Many of our youth today have no idea what they want to do. They're not exposed anymore to the careers that are actually our different careers that are available to them in the trades. As a result of that, we've been able to establish numerous programs that help to excite them, help to make these type of programs aware, such as our youth camps, such as Build a 3D printer camp. career discovery days where

1:27:45we have high school and homeschool kids come over to learn about the different careers. We have uh partners with uh Pasco County and the Utilities Department to help create a pipeline uh for your own utilities areas. We also have created uh technical training programs for uh homeschools, and this is something we've recently launched and are looking for that to expand in the future. Uh lastly, as we mentioned earlier, we are expanding our high school program. We will be having uh three high schools and

1:28:15starting in the year 2025 in Pasco County, which will these will be geographically uh located across the county. so that uh students can uh get to them, but also to be a standardized curriculum that'll and and providing support to the teachers who are a part of that. You all have heard about our high school or excuse me our boot camp program for adults. This is a great uh two-week expedited program to help people who are looking for new careers or to change their careers and and results in getting

1:28:45right into ex uh existing uh jobs or new jobs that they haven't uh pursued before.

1:28:54As a result of that program over the year, this just this past year, we've had issued over three hundred uh certifications, uh industry recognized certifications, and a result of the people we've secured jobs for hundreds, resulting in over fifteen million dollars of economic impact to our community. You mentioned that our we have our workforce uh training center that we've launched just this last year. Uh and coming up on this Saturday, we

1:29:24are actually inviting you all and our commission and uh as well as the public to come to the first holiday career, excuse me, the first holiday community block party. We this is meant to help get people to come out to learn who we are. And to um to l learn about the careers but also just to enjoy the uh the holiday season. To close, I just wanted to make a final announcement of a special uh announcement. We're looking we're always looking to the future. Um

1:29:55We want to again thank our commissioners and uh and our board members, we who we have several uh with us today, as well as our community, and DC Yeager who is uh an Ammetrol partner with us. And essentially uh the to close, I want to make our final announcement. We are very proud and excited to announce that we have created a collaborative partnership agreement with the University of Florida, Florida Semiconductor Institute. Uh this is a amazing

1:30:25opportunity for us to expand our youth programs as well as our uh career discovery boot camps and other programs uh not only locally but also throughout the state. I want to invite Uh Dr. Jack Judy, who's the Deputy Director of Workforce with the University of Florida's Florida Semiconductor Institute, to say a few words, followed by Mr. Leroy Yancey, who's the Chairman of the AMSkills Board.

1:30:53Thank you very much. Uh Doctor Judy.

1:30:58Good morning. Yes, uh I'm Jack Judy. I'm a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Florida, but today I stand before you as the Deputy Director for Workforce Development at the Florida Semiconductor Institute. which has a mission of making Florida the world leader in specialty electronics and packaging. And we have a major research mission, but also this workforce mission. And although we may be stationed currently in Gainesville, we have a statewide view. And we've been partnering with advanced teams

1:31:28and thought leaders across the state who we see to work with to develop new ways of engaging with this workforce across the state and growing it to the level needed. needed for our semiconductor industry, which is actually quite advanced and to make it even stronger as it's growing to meet the national and international demands for its products. Uh and so uh yes, we've signed an MOU with AMP skills and are excited about partnering with them to promote

1:31:58its development of the kind of thing we we need to suff perform this kind of workforce development. and to uh help disseminate it across the state. So uh thank you for your time and your vision to support that effort and uh our partnership with it and we look forward to sharing the outcomes going forward.

1:32:15Thank you very much. And now we have our our chairman of the board.

1:32:19Good morning. Today marks a significant milestone for workforce development in Florida as we celebrate a transformative partnership between Florida Semiconductor Institute in M Skills. Together, we are addressing the urgent need for a skilled workforce in the rapidly growing semiconductor and microelectronics industries. which are vital to US to the US economy and global global competitiveness. Through

1:32:50this partnership, we're not only equipping individuals with critical skills, but also providing pathways to high-wage, high-demand careers that can transform lives and strengthen communities. We're proud to stand alongside FSI, the University of Florida, and Ammitrol in this mission to prepare Florida's future workforce. Together, we're building a pipeline of talent that will ensure Florida's leadership

1:33:20in the semiconductor and microelectronics sectors for years to come. Thank you to the Polk County Commission for reading that

1:33:30I welcome it. I appreciate that uh to the Pasco County Commission for recognizing the importance of this initiative and for your continued support of workforce innovation. We're excited about the opportunities this partnership will create for individuals, families, and industries throughout our great state. Thank you.

1:33:52Thank you so much. And I I see we have some other boards. So if you want to introduce yourself, um you guys come on up, introduce yourself, and then we're gonna take a photo.

1:34:07Uh journey so far. not the least through the work of of of of yourself, Kathy and and and Tom. So uh excited about the future, excited about this new uh agreement with uh uh the the University of Florida and uh really uh uh we're determined to stay in Pasco County by the way.

1:34:26And Vika was CEO of Metler Toledo and um Dr. McGee.

1:34:33Hi guys, uh Joe McGay. Uh I joined Am Skills Board just recently, particularly because uh some of their initiatives with special needs kids. Uh I run a robotics company and I've asked Kathryn to look at doing the development and training for the people we need to scale that company. So thank you.

1:34:50Thank you.

1:34:56Okay. All right. Well um we're gonna come down and take a photo with you all. If I if I Commissioner

1:35:01Starkey.

1:35:01Oh and and congratulations on your tenure anniversary, Commissioner Mariano.

1:35:04And Commissioner Starkey, thanks for your desicated uh involvement with this from when you were on the school board twenty years ago to now all the way through. Um as as I've been very supportive as well to try to help grow and and I think what you guys are doing is phenomenal. And I'm so excited to hear about the Semiconductor Institute involvement. Um you know IFUS has been a great partner. Florida Association County's works very closely with University of Florida. When I see this coming up and Tom, you and I have met with developers uh and now that John Lake's

1:35:34in the school, I think there's a huge opportunity if we can make it work to go right down from Hudson High School, the campus that's right there. You've got a hundred and sixty acre park with some other industrial land right around it that's going to be growing right to it. Uh we think it would be a phenomenal place to grow train right from there as well as uh other features to it. So I'd like to make sure we do explore that. Uh we know the Tan Bay Partnership years ago said there's at least 30 some odd thousand jobs out there that could be filled if they were trained to go forward. So

1:36:05I know every time you guys are employ or are training people, there's a job created. So we want to make sure we keep on pushing that. Every step of the way. And something we brought in a few years ago was Pepin Academy from Hills Row. Uh got some great things there that could could we could work cooperatively too. Those kids are amazing. Uh they can do repetitive tasks when they know what they gotta do. They're awesome. Uh we've seen 'em uh put musical performance on they're out of this world. Uh so I know that y I I'm glad you're tapping into that because I guess it's great a lot of people. Joe's son

1:36:35graduated from

1:36:35Pepin and Saint

1:36:36Leo.

1:36:37Okay. So that I mean just phenomenal opportunities that now that kids who are kinda left behind now can go and live great productive lives. Just came from the Gary Line uh ribbon cutting yesterday. They had projected to do I think it was four hundred jobs, three hundred jobs over three years. In less than nine months, they've filled six hundred jobs. Now interesting, forty or fifty came from the Bronx to come down to live here, but the rest was jobs from around here. So we know this great opportunity there to

1:37:07work with and um to to what you guys are doing. This is very exciting stuff and I wanna just say I know this board is a hundred percent behind what you're doing and we wanna help you even grow bigger and stronger, whatever way we can.

1:37:20Okay, we'll come down for the photo.

1:37:26Okay.

1:37:29Yeah,

1:37:29we'll say it too. Uh okay, you guys stand behind and I'll come back. Let's move this back. Yeah.

1:37:43Yeah, yeah.

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1:38:35Very good.

1:38:37Thank you.

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