with local employers. The center will offer nondegree, skill-focused training tailored to immediate workforce needs. “We piloted a program here,” elaborates Testani. “It was a six-week cohort centered around manufacturing, the introduction to manufacturing basics. It included things like OSHA certification, CAD drawing awareness, business tool measurements. It was developed with the help of Unison, a GE Aerospace Company, their trainers taught the class. We had 20 kids who took it from BOCES, and I’ve in Chenango County to really look at what hazards we have in play, whether it’s severe winter storms, summer storms, tornadic activity, the effects of hurricanes, whatever it may be, to see what we as municipalities can do to make ourselves more resilient,” he conveys. WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT FOR A STRONG CHENANGO Chenango County is working to establish a Workforce Development Center at the SUNY Morrisville campus in Norwich, a project designed in collaboration 26 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 06, ISSUE 05
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