Workforce
Investment Consortium Working for Eastern
North Carolina
What does the Consortium do?
The Region Q Workforce Investment Consortium is a five-county group composed
of Bertie, Beaufort, Hertford, Martin and Pitt Counties. The county
commissioners in these five counties agreed to be legally responsible for
certain workforce development programs in the area through a written agreement
with the Governor, who is represented by the State of North Carolina Department
of Commerce - Division of Employment and Training. The county commissioners in
each county appoint five members to the Region Q Workforce Development board,
for the total of twenty-five members. They also select the administrative/fiscal
agent for the funds; in Region Q this is the Mid-East Commission. The Consortium
members are local officials selected by each county. The Consortium members meet
periodically to discuss the direction of the federal and state programs under
their guidance.