Effort Underway to Build Statewide Job Assessment Dashboard

Santa Fe, NM - The Legislative Jobs Council continues to mine local job assessment data to help stimulate job creation in each of the seven Economic Development Districts of New Mexico. The Interim Jobs Council will work with each Council of Government (COG) and allied organizations to conduct a series of half to full day sessions on job creation. The first session for Northern New Mexico will take place Thursday, August 21, 2014 at the Ohkay Owingeh Conference Center.

Regional stakeholders will determine how many economic base jobs are needed for full employment. Participants will also identify specific sectors to develop and suggest specific actions that need to be taken to create jobs in each sector and in each county. The consensus numbers and findings collected from these sessions will be loaded into a real-time digital Job Creation Assessment Framework with dashboards that aggregate and display the data at the district and state levels. The findings will be continually updated, published online and reported to the Jobs Council.

The first regional meeting for North Central New Mexico will include the Regional Economic Development Initiative (REDI) and stakeholders from Los Alamos, Rio Arriba, Santa Fe, and Taos counties. It will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 2:10 p.m. on Thursday, August 21, 2014 at the Ohkay Owingeh Conference Center, located at 68 New Mexico 291 in Ohkay Owingeh, New Mexico.

The Interim Jobs Council - established in 2013 and comprised of a bipartisan group of Legislators, executive cabinet secretaries, and private industry representatives - estimates more than 160,000 jobs must be created in the next 10 (ten) years to bring New Mexico back to its 2007 employment levels. The Jobs Council is chaired by Speaker W. Ken Martinez (D-69 Bernalillo, Cibola, McKinley, Socorro, San Juan, Valencia) and Senate President Pro Tem Mary Kay Papen (D-38 Doña Ana). The Legislative Council has contracted with Lautman Economic Architecture to develop the framework and facilitate the process.