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. The roster names who fills a seat rather than which seats are open, so the vacancies are 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

All 95 filed documents are here, and every row names its own meeting: the date, the body that met, and the papers filed for it. A visitor scanning the list, or a screen-reader user pulling the links out of it, can tell one meeting from the next without opening anything.

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 19–36 of 54 meetings.

  • SOWIB Board Meeting

    May 18, 2023 Agenda and minutes posted

  • SOWIB Board Meeting

    February 16, 2023 Agenda and minutes posted

  • SOWIB Board Meeting

    December 8, 2022 Agenda and minutes posted

  • SOWIB Board Meeting

    August 18, 2022 Agenda and minutes posted

  • SOWIB Board Meeting

    May 19, 2022 Agenda and minutes posted

  • SOWIB Board Meeting

    February 17, 2022 Agenda and minutes posted

  • SOWIB Board Meeting

    November 18, 2021 Agenda and minutes posted

  • SOWIB Board Meeting

    August 19, 2021 Agenda and minutes posted

  • SOWIB Board Meeting

    May 20, 2021 Agenda and minutes posted

  • SOWIB Board Meeting

    February 18, 2021 Agenda and minutes posted

  • SOWIB Board Meeting

    November 19, 2020 Agenda and minutes posted

  • SOWIB Board Meeting

    August 20, 2020 Agenda and minutes posted

  • SOWIB Board Meeting

    May 21, 2020 Agenda and minutes posted

  • SOWIB Board Meeting

    April 9, 2020 Agenda and minutes posted

  • SOWIB Board Meeting

    February 20, 2020 Agenda and minutes posted

  • SOWIB Board Meeting

    November 21, 2019 Agenda and minutes posted

  • SOWIB Board Meeting

    August 15, 2019 Agenda and minutes posted

  • SOWIB Board Meeting

    May 16, 2019 Agenda and minutes posted