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DCCCD BOARD OF TRUSTEES’ INDICATOR REPORT
1999-2000 Economic Development

 Goal 6: The DCCCD in partnership with business, industry, and governmental entities prepares a quality workforce to enhance economic development.

 The following indicators provide an overview of business funded contract training:

-- number of people trained,

-- number of firms entering into contracts,

-- contract revenue received, and

-- number of contract training hours provided.

 This report addresses business contract training. The funding source is the business requesting the training or a Skills Development, Self-Sufficiency or Smart Jobs Fund grant. Other Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) programs such as the Workforce Investment Act, where training is provided to individuals and the contract does not include a particular business, is reported in the District Resource Development Office Grant Status Report.

 Findings

In 1998-99, the DCCCD contributed to area economic development by providing1 customized training to 29,327 individuals.

 Over 280 businesses such as CompUSA, Lucent Technologies, DART and the City of Dallas entered into contracts with the DCCCD to provide this training. The type of training requested was diverse as were the needs of the businesses served and included English as a second language, computer skills, occupational Spanish, and police officer training.

A total of $5,315,317 in revenue was generated from contracts and new grants. This amount is conservative since it excludes Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board funding for reimbursable training. More specifically, $4,059,070 in business contracts and $1,256,301 in new TWC grants were secured during this time. Training continued on $2,338,548 in open grants that were reported in last year’s totals.

It is difficult to make meaningful comparisons of data from one year to the next. Training is in response to business needs and generally does not follow an academic year. Furthermore, some contracts and most grants cross academic years. Table 1 displays total contract training revenue and number of people trained in an annualized2 format to mirror the academic year. Tables 2 and 3 detail the actual 1998-99 activity by DCCCD location.

 
 Table 1 Annualized District Contract Training
 
 
1995-96
1996-97
1997-98
1998-99
Contract Revenue
$3,758,692
$5,896,128
$5,965,071
$5,518,030
People Trained
not available
19,828
14,453
29,437
 
 Table 2 1998-99 Business Funded Contract Training
 
Location
# Companies
People Trained
Training Hours
Revenue
BHC
84
7,810
80,427
$ 813,924
CVC
7
4,071
14,079
$ 116,645
EFC
17
3,185
183,454
$ 171,810
ECC
9
6,174
316,875
$1,370,714
MVC
13
1,925
57,082
$ 533,915
NLC
14
2,588
129,750
$ 320,181
RLC
20
1,388
37,857
$ 168,729
BJP
125
1,429
35,431
$ 563,152
Data Source: Self-reported by DCCCD location
 
Table 3 Texas Workforce Commission Funded Contract Training
 
  

Location

   
Grant Dates
   
Funded Amount
#Jobs Created &/or People Retrained
BHC
1/99 – 12/99
$180,030
150
BHC
(one-time workshop)
$ 21,522
 409 
CVC
4/99 – 4/2001
$278,536
100
ECC
3/99 – 9/99
$ 52,000
18
RLC
3/99 – 2/2000
$215,625
159
BJP
4/98 – 9/99
$530,110
300
Open Grants from Prior Year
BHC
11/97 – 8/99
$ 318,548
326
BJP *
11/97 – 10/99
$1,020,000
500
BJP 
5/98 – 12/99
$1,000,000
400
Data Source: Grant Status Report, June 1999, District Resource Development Office

 *This grant was awarded to the Bill J. Priest Institute in partnership with Eastfield, El Centro and North Lake Colleges.

 Notes:
1Providing – includes both counts of individuals who have received training as well as the projected number of people to be retrained and/or jobs created at the close of the 1998-99 acquired TWC grants.
2 Annualized – Grants were treated as though the training occurred equally throughout the length of the grant. Revenue and people trained were then counted in the corresponding academic year.

Prepared by District Office of Research, September 1999

1998-99 Board Indicator Reports