Members
The NAAMREI Consortium provides overall guidance to the Rio South Texas project and consists of three regional alliances from the Rio South Texas Region (seven counties) are; 1) North American Technology & Innovation Alliance, 2) Rio South Texas Manufacturing Alliance and the 3) Region One ESC T-STEM Alliance. The consortium is comprised of forty seven private and public partners including economic and workforce agencies, manufacturing association and the education sector. Through the Alliances action plans will be developed and activities coordinating leading to implementation of the strategic goals of the WIRED project. The NAAMREI leadership team held a regional strategic planning forum on April 10, 2007 to organize the NAAMREI Consortium. Over 150 individuals participated in the strategic workforce sessions.
Leadership Team
The NAAMREI leadership team acts as the Steering Committee for the NAAMREI Consortium. The leadership team is composed of the chairs from each alliance (see NAAMREI Consortium chart, page 25) and representatives from each lead partnership agency; University of Texas Pan American (UTPA), South Texas College (STC), Greater McAllen Alliance (GMA), McAllen Economic Development Corporation (MEDC), Region One Education Service Center (ROESC), LRGV Workforce Development Board and South Texas Manufacturers Association (STMA) and City of McAllen . The chair of the consortium will serve as the chair of the leadership team. The NAAMREI leadership team will lead the action initiatives, plan calendar of activities, convening authority to build local support for the NAAMREI initiative and meet quarterly to review the quarterly performance of the project. This will enable the alliance chairs to work with their respective team to implement corrective action strategies to improve performance.
Consortium Lead Agencies Roles and Responsibilities
The three alliances will act as “action teams” of the NAAMREI Consortium. A lead partnership agency will serve as the chair of an alliance action team. They are responsible for planning and conducting quarterly alliance meetings. Two of the quarterly meetings will be held on the same day and location. The Consortium meeting will be held at the end of the alliance meetings. This will enable each alliance to report on the status of their operation plan. The consortium membership will function as one entity. This will give the entire membership the opportunity to provide feedback as part of the continuous improvement process for the overall NAAMREI initiative. The lead agencies will work with the Executive Director of the NAAMREI Organization to develop an operation plan.