SOWIB Southwestern Oregon Workforce Investment Board

Membership and the public record

Board & Records

16 board seats filled, three Chief Local Elected Officials, and 54 meetings on record back to October 2015, each carrying its own real date and body name.

Who serves

The board

16 of the board’s 20 seats are filled; the remaining 4 are vacant. SOWIB’s own roster does not say which category an empty seat belongs to, so that is stated as one total rather than as four invented rows.

Business

  • Joe Benetti

    Owner, Benetti's Italian Restaurant SOWIB Chair

  • Nichole Moody

    Chief People Officer, Northwest Human Services

  • Jason Traylor

    Area Manager Northwest, Sause Bros

  • Andy Owens

    Chief Operations Officer, A&M Transport

  • Dave Sanders

    HR Generalist & Business Analyst, AdvanTec Manufacturing

  • Jennifer Gustafson

    Community Engagement Director, AllCare Health

  • Marie Simonds

    Executive Director, Bandon Dunes Charitable Foundation

Labor

  • Robert Westerman

    Business Agent, IBEW Local  932 SOWIB Vice Chair

  • Mike Hicks

    Labor Representative, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace

  • Rod Sprinkle

    Labor Representative, Ironworkers Local 29

Workforce

  • Ben Messner

    Chief Executive Officer, Advanced Health

Education

  • Rachel Pokrandt

    President, Umpqua Community College

  • Ali Mageehon

    Vice President of Instruction, Southwestern Oregon Community College

Government, econ. dev.

  • Amy Kincaid

    Branch Manager, Oregon DHS, Voc Rehab

  • Debbie Sargent

    Area Manager, Oregon Employment Department, WorkSource Oregon

  • Miranda Plagge

    Economic Development Administrator, Curry Economic Development

One per county

Chief Local Elected Officials

SOWIB’s governing consortium: one elected official per county.

The record

Agendas & minutes

On sowib.org, 94 of 95 document links on the meetings page read only “Agenda” or “Minutes”, 1 carries no link text at all, and the whole set offers only 5 distinct labels across those 95 files. A screen-reader user pulling that link list hears the same word again and again, with nothing to tell one meeting from the next. Below, every meeting carries its own real date and body name instead.

That page is even titled in the past tense, Meeting Agendas & Minutes | sowib, while the site’s own navigation calls the same page “Upcoming Meetings.”

How many SOWIB meetings are on the public record each year The record runs from 2015 to 2026 and holds 54 meetings. The busiest year on file is 2016 with 7. 2 meeting rows state no date and appear in no column. 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
One column per year, 2015 to 2026.

Showing 1–18 of 54 meetings.

  • SOWIB Board Meeting

    August 20, 2026 Agenda and minutes posted

  • Chief Local Elected Officials (CLEO) – Budget Meeting

    June 11, 2026 Agenda and minutes posted

  • SOWIB Board Meeting

    May 21, 2026 Agenda and minutes posted

  • SOWIB Board Meeting

    February 19, 2026 Agenda and minutes posted

  • SOWIB Board Meeting

    November 20, 2025 Agenda and minutes posted

  • SOWIB Board Meeting

    August 21, 2025 Agenda and minutes posted

  • Chief Local Elected Officials (CLEO) – Budget Meeting

    June 30, 2025 Agenda and minutes posted

  • SOWIB Board Meeting

    May 22, 2025 Agenda and minutes posted

  • SOWIB Board Meeting

    February 20, 2025 Agenda and minutes posted

  • SOWIB Board Meeting

    November 21, 2024 Agenda and minutes posted

  • SOWIB Board Meeting

    August 15, 2024 Agenda and minutes posted

  • Executive Transition

    Date not stated Minutes posted

  • Board Budget Meeting

    Date not stated Minutes posted

  • SOWIB Board Meeting

    May 16, 2024 Agenda and minutes posted

  • SOWIB Board Meeting

    February 15, 2024 Agenda and minutes posted

  • SOWIB Board Meeting

    November 16, 2023 Agenda and minutes posted

  • SOWIB Board Meeting

    August 17, 2023 Agenda and minutes posted

  • SOWIB Board Meeting

    June 28, 2023 Agenda and minutes posted