MOUNT VERNON — The Work Experience Program for Ohio Works First recipients will see changes in who actually oversees the workers.
Martin McAvoy, maintenance supervisor for WEP, met with the commissioners to update them on some changes in the way his responsibilities work. McAvoy had been a supervisor for a work crew that did special projects.
The program will be changing slightly to give more supervisory duties to the sponsors who employ the workers in the WEP program.
“Another of my new duties will be to develop new WEP sites,” McAvoy told the commissioners. “And we had talked to you guys several months ago about the possibility of placing some workers with the maintenance department here. Our goal with the WEP program is to assist the participants in developing skills that will lead to better jobs in the work force. For the sponsors, it will help accomplish the work faster. We are trying to do a better job of matching participants and their skills with the needs of a sponsor’s work force.”
McAvoy told the commissioners WEP was starting to run low on job sites
Some of the jobs they have performed included cleaning the Memorial Building and building the sidewalk going to the Opportunity Knox Building on Coshocton Avenue.
The commissioners told McAvoy they would consider what they might be able to do to help and look at their needs to be able to match workers with their existing work force.
