Item II (A-5) Presentations and Proclamations - October 27 -November 2, 1991 as National Job Skills Week AGENDA 10-1-91
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WHEREAS, a well-trained, competent workforce is essential for the productivity
and quality gains American industry must make to maintain a
competitive advantage in the face of unprecedented technological
change and foreign competition; and
WHEREAS, formal and informal training on the job contributes more significantly
than any other factor to developing employee competence; and
WHEREAS, National Job Skills Week is an annual campaign to promote awareness
about the importance of public and private workplace training;
WHEREAS, American companies need to invest more in training; and
WHEREAS, the American Society for Training and Development is launching
TRAIN AMERICA'S WORKFORCE-PUT QUALITY TO WORK, an information and
action campaign to make training a national priority; and
WHEREAS, this campaign will be carried on in Ocoee, Florida, as well as
throughout the nation:
011erPfore: I, Lester Dabbs, Jr., by virtue of the authority vested in
me as Mayor of the City of Ocoee, Florida, do hereby proclaim October 27 -
November 2, 1991 as
NATIONAL JOB SKILLS WEEK
in the City of Ocoee, Florida, to draw public attention to the significance of
training on the job, to the work of professionals in this field, and to the
advantages that training brings to workers.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I hereunto have set my hand and caused the Seal of the City
of Ocoee, Florida to be affixed at Ocoee this 1st day of October, in the year of
our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-one.
Lester Dabbs, Jr., Mayor
Attest:
Jean Grafton, City Clerk