The Colorado Energy Workforce Consortium met on March 18th. Ray Kelly from CEWD discussed the consortium's strategic workforce planning process and structure. Bev Brown reviewed the executive committee structure and governance. Jonathan Liepe discussed the importance of the consortium's LinkedIn group for communication. Ray Kelly provided an overview of the consortium's strategic plan document. The group discussed math requirements for energy industry certification exams. The next meeting will be an April 15th face-to-face meeting at Xcel Energy in Denver.

1. Colorado Energy
Workforce Consortium
Meeting Agenda and Notes
Date: 03/18/15
Time: 3:00 – 3:30 p.m.
Location: gotomeeting.com
Facilitator: Executive Committee Note Taker: Lynn Burton / Ray Kelly
Leader/Organizer: Executive Committee Time Keeper: Lynn Burton
Attendees See Attached Attendance Sheet
Agenda CEWC meeting
1. Introductions
2. Progress Report
3. Structure and Support – website
review.
1. Co-chairs
2. EC Members
3. Ray
Minutes
Agenda item Introductions
Discussion
 Lynn Burton opened the meeting with a welcome message that also included the
introduction of the Executive Committee.
 Format of the monthly calls will be to convene the EC (Executive Committee) for the
first 30 minutes then host the CEWC for the following 60 minutes. The EC meeting will
be to discuss consortium operations activities and to prep for the consortia at large
meeting. The one hour consortia meetings are driven by the EC in which consortium
taskforce leaders will provide updates on action item progress. The more involved
consortia members are, the more successful the meetings will be.
Action items Person
responsible
Deadline
 Calendar invites out to consortia group Lynn Burton Ongoing
Agenda item Progress Report

2. Discussion  Ray Kelly introduced himself and explained his role with our consortia and his
commitment to helping us become successful. Ray’s background is with CEWD (Center
for Energy Workforce Development).
 Ray reviewed the 4 pieces of the Strategic workforce planning process which are
Career Awareness, Education, Workforce Planning and Metrics and Structure and
Support (Slide #8 from presentation). Ray explained what the CEWD strategic planning
structure is and told the group that the content of the document will be unique to
Colorado.
 Bev Brown reviewed slides 9-12, discussing the EC Structure & Governance,
Appointment process for new Co-Chair, and Suggestions for Executive Sponsorship.
 Ray Kelly pointed out how important Executive Sponsorship is to the success of the
Consortia. Currently we have a commitment from Steve Mills with Xcel Energy to
partner with us in the role of Executive Sponsorship.
 Bev Brown commented on several legislative bills that are being reviewed in the
Colorado State House and how they connect and support our strategies.
 Jonathan Liepe presented the importance of the Colorado Energy Workforce Consortia
LinkedIn site. His key points are as follows:
o Open forum
o Dialogue environment
o Posts relevant to the Industry
o Job opportunities
o Announcement of jobs
 Ray Kelly provided an overview of the actual CEWC Strategic Plan document.
Additional fine tuning is being done by the EC. This Plan will be the container for all of
our work and documentation. Between now and April 1st the consortia group will get a
copy of the Strategic Plan to review prior to the April 15
th
face-to-face meeting.
Action items Person responsible Deadline
 Join the CEWC group on LinkedIn All group members 3/31/2015
 Email Strategic Plan document to all consortia members Lynn Burton 3/31/2015
 Ensure Educator group joins LinkedIn group EC Committee 3/31/2015
Agenda item CEWD Website Review
Discussion  Review of several components within the CEWD website.
 Group discussion on how math is an “Achilles heel” and we need to talk further to
understand the math requirements and how we can prepare new candidates for EEI math
testing requirements
 Ken Floyd shared that students can’t use a calculator during the testing which presents
itself as challenging to students.
Action items Person responsible Deadline
 Consortia members to notify Ray Kelly for cewd.org access if needed Group members 3/31/2015
 EIF certification sent out to team Ray Kelly 3/31/2015
Next Meeting – April 15, 2015 Face-to-Face meeting; Xcel Denver office 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.
May 20, 2015 Consortia conference call 3:30 – 4:30 p.m.