Inventory of the Occupational Information Coordinating Committee
Processed by Tyler G. Cline
California State Archives
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California Secretary of State. All rights reserved.
Inventory of the Occupational Information Coordinating Committee Records
Collection number: R189
California State Archives
Office of the Secretary of State
Sacramento, California
- Processed by:
- Tyler G. Cline
- Date Completed:
- May 2011
- Encoded by:
- Lisa DeHope
© 2011 California Secretary of State. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Occupational Information Coordinating Committee Records
Dates: 1978-2004
Collection number: R189
Creator:
Occupational Information Coordinating Committee
Collection Size:
13 cubic feet of textual records and electronic media
Repository:
California State Archives
Abstract: The records of the Occupational Information Coordinating Committee (COICC) consist of twelve cubic feet of textual records
and one box of electronic media. The committee was created by an act of the State Legislature in response to the national
Comprehensive Employment Training Act of 1973, or CETA. The goal of the committee was to act as an advisory body to the Employment
Development Department in the department's operation of the State-Local Cooperative Labor Market Information Development Program,
or LMID, as specified in the above mentioned federally funded program requirements.
Physical location: California State Archives
Languages:
Languages represented in the collection:
English
Administrative Information
Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
For permission to reproduce or publish, please consult California State Archives staff. Permission for reproduction or publication
is given on behalf of the California State Archives, Office of the Secretary of State, Sacramento, as the owner of the physical
items. The researcher assumes all responsibility for possible infringement that may arise from reproduction or publication
of materials from the California State Archives' collections.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Occupational Information Coordinating Committee Records, R189. [series number], [box and folder
number], California State Archives, Office of the Secretary of State, Sacramento, California.
Acquisition and Custodial History
The California State Archives acquired the Occupational Information Coordinating Committee Records according to state law.
Administrative History
The California Occupational Information Coordinating Committee (COICC) was created by an act of the State Legislature in response
to the national Comprehensive Employment Training Act of 1973, or CETA. That act was passed by the 93rd Congress and chaptered
as Public Law 93-203. The federal act created the National Occupational Information Coordinating Committee (NOICC) as a federal
level interagency committee with consolidated responsibilities for funding federal job training programs, for the unemployed,
underemployed, the disadvantaged, and youth. The NOICC coordinated with state level Occupational Information Coordinating
Committees or SOICCs, and distributed block grants and the Basic Assistance Grants to state level programs which met the NOICC's
developmental guidelines.
The COICC (alternately referred to as the California SOICC) was established by Statutes of 1975, Chapter 853. The Committee
consisted of the Director of Employment Development, the Director of Commerce, the Superintendent of Public Instruction, the
Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, the Director of Rehabilitation, the chair of the State Job Training Coordinating
Council, the Executive Director of the Employment Training Panel, the Director of Social Services, and the Executive Secretary
of the Council for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education. The goal of the committee was to act as an advisory body
to the Employment Development Department in the department's operation of the State-Local Cooperative Labor Market Information
Development Program, or LMID, as specified in the above mentioned federally funded program requirements.
The scope and mission of the COICC was modified several times after its inception. Chapter 972, Statutes of 1978, stated that
the Legislature's intent for the COICC was to make "timely labor market information" available to the public. Revised federal
legislation such as the Job Training Partnership Act of 1982 provided funding through the NOICC for state level OICCs to fund
job corps, adult and youth education programs, and labor market information statistics gathering, publishing, and promulgation.
The national Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act of 1984 restructured the NOICC/SOICC relationship by providing
funding and mandates for the creation of technical and vocational education programs. The COICC was encouraged to sponsor
and track the successes of vocational programs in California. In 1984, the authorizing legislation granting the COICC statutory
authority was shifted from the Education Code to the Unemployment Insurance Code. The COICC was defined as an interagency
committee in the Unemployment Insurance Code sections 10531 and 10532, with the same language, structure, and board composition
as the previous statutes of 1978.
During this time, the COICC, which had a full-time staff of two and one half persons, began efforts to promulgate labor market
information for California. The COICC chose a distributed model for this information, facilitating coordination between the
California State College system and the Private Industry Councils of major California cities such as San Jose, Fresno, Los
Angeles, San Francisco, and San Diego.
In 1998 the committee became part of America's Career Resource Network as funded under the Workforce Investment Act. The
committee was restructured in 2005, following the passage of SB655 (Midgin), which repealed the Unemployment Insurance Code
sections 10531 and 10532, replacing them with Education Code section 53086 (Chapter 208, Statutes of 2006). The committee
was renamed the California Career Resource Network and became a special program within the Department of Education.
The members now included the Director of Employment Development, the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, the Chancellor
of the California Community Colleges, the Director of Rehabilitation, the Director of Social Services, the Executive Director
of the California Workforce Investment Board, the Chief Deputy of the Adult Programs Division, Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation, the Chief Deputy of the Juvenile Justice Division, Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, and the Director
of the Department of Developmental Services.
The program then had the goal to distribute career information, resources, and training materials to middle school and high
school counselors, educators, and administrators, in order to ensure that middle schools and high schools have the necessary
information available to provide a pupil with guidance and instruction on education and job requirements necessary for career
development.
Scope and Content
The records of the Occupational Information Coordinating Committee (COICC) consist of
thirteen cubic feet of textual records and one box of electronic media. These records are
arranged into twelve series and date from 1978 to 2004. The series arrangement reflects an
imposition of an artificial arrangement structure onto records which were organized neither
chronologically nor by subject. Records were stored in folders with limited description,
and organization was imposed on these folders.
The records between the creation of the COICC in 1978 and the passage of the Job Training
Partnership Act in 1982 and the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act in
1984 are sparse and reflect a lack of direction within the COICC. Despite having a mandate
from the state to propagate labor market information and funding to do so, the records of
the COICC from this period display both lack of consensus as to the COICC's mission as well
as the methods through which such mission was to be accomplished.
Beginning in 1982, the COICC undertook a study of the usefulness of Labor Market
Information (LMI) within the state, contracted to Pacific Research Management Associates of
Sacramento. This group developed three versions of a Labor Market Information Survey, to be
distributed electronically on microfloppy diskette for MS-DOS computers. The survey was
distributed to Private Industry Councils of San Jose and San Diego, as well as several
colleges and universities. Despite spending several years and many thousands of dollars on
the survey project, the COICC would not effectively distribute Labor Market Information
within and about the state for another decade.
Beginning in the late 1990s, the COICC began to distribute Occupational Outlook Reports
for the counties of California on an annual basis. These reports were distributed in bound
volumes as well as electronic format as Adobe PDF files.
The records of the COICC reflect shifting trends in both the labor market and labor
market information over a period of twenty-five years. In the late 1990s, the Committee's
memoranda and interagency correspondence reflected the growing realization that the changing
realities of labor in California and the Untied States meant that as companies shifted their
workforces towards "mobile" more temporary employees, the ability for agencies to track
labor market information, as well as the relevance and timeliness of labor market
information, was significantly decreased.
By the year 2000, the National Occupational Information Coordinating Committee (NOICC)
had its statutory language revoked, and was replaced by America's Career Resource Network
(ACRN), with a focus on employment education for high school students and retraining for
people changing careers. The COICC continued to produce and distribute Occupational Outlook
Reports up until its restructuring as the California Career Resource Network (CalCRN) in
2005.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
the library's online public access catalog.
California Occupational Information Coordinating Committee
Labor market information
Career development
R189.1, Box 1, folders 1-9
Series 1
Agency Files
1982-1990
Physical Description: 9 file folders
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by agency name.
Scope and Content Note
Agency files include material relating to the various agencies with which the COICC had a
relationship. These include the Employment Development Department, the Department of
Education, and the California Community Colleges. Agency files include materials such as
interagency agreements and budgetary information.
R189.2, Box 1, folders 10-17
Series 2
Conference Files
1996-2002
Physical Description: 8 file folders
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically by conference date.
Scope and Content Note
This series contains material related to conferences attended by COICC members. The COICC attended numerous conferences between
the inception of the Committee and its disbandment. The COICC also sponsored and hosted conferences in California related
to labor market information, labor statistics development, and workforce information. Materials include promotional material,
research material, remarks, and correspondence with conference members or hosts.
R189.3, Box 1, folder 18 - Box 4, folder 4
Series 3
Correspondence
1982-2003
Physical Description: 60 file folders
Arrangement
Arranged into two subseries. The first subseries covers the years 1982 to 1986, and is arranged chronologically. The second
subseries covers the years 1983 to 2003, and is arranged alphabetically by subject.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence files include letters and emails from the COICC, its executive directors, and its advisory members to and from
various agencies, legislators, researchers, consultants, and members of the private sector, both citizens and industry leaders.
The COICC also had correspondence with the National Occupational Coordinating Committee on matters of policy, procedure, funding,
and scope.
R189.4, Box 4, folder 5 - Box 5, folder 23
Series 4
Meeting Files
1979-2002
Physical Description: 43 file folders
Arrangement
Arranged into two subseries: (1) Meeting Agendas and Minutes, and (2) General Meeting Files. Meeting agendas and minutes
are arranged by date, and general meeting files are arranged by subject.
Scope and Content Note
The first subseries includes agendas and minutes from meetings of the full Committee including advisory members and general
staff. These meetings typically occurred on a monthly basis, but were frequently postponed or cancelled.
The second subseries included meeting notes and reference material. Topics discussed at the COICC meetings include the directorship
of the Committee, the workforce development block grant program, labor market information, the Joint Employment Training Conference
of 1992, and cooperation with other State Occupational Information Coordinating Committees.
R189.5, Box 6, folder 1 - Box 7, folder 11
Series 5
Memoranda
1989-2002
Physical Description: 34 file folders
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by subject.
Scope and Content Note
The COICC staff included the executive director and one to three staff assistants at any given time, and correspondence between
the staff and the full body of the Committee was often the best way for these two groups to communicate. As the COICC met
monthly and frequently cancelled or postponed meetings, memoranda between the executive director and members of the Committee
allowed for the free flow of information and ideas to develop projects and continue the general functions of the committee.
R189.6, Box 7, folders 12 - 22
Series 6
Office Files
1981-1999
Physical Description: 9 file folders
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by subject.
Scope and Content Note
Office files include records from the day-to-day operations of the COICC staff, which included an executive director and at
least one support person. The correspondence and memoranda of the executive director is included, along with reports on the
development of projects and programs, contracts with state agencies and private firms, and budgetary agreements.
R189.7, Box 7, folder 23 - Box 9, folder 25
Series 7
OIS Development Files
1980-2001
Physical Description: 28 file folders
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by subject.
Scope and Content Note
The development of a California Cooperative Occupational Information System (CCOIS) was a fundamental goal of the COICC.
The OIS Development Files include reports, research, and background information on the development of the CCOIS. From the
creation of the Committee through the late 1990s, this system was never fully developed or implemented. The COICC contracted
with Pacific Research Management Associates in 1983-1985 to develop a comprehensive survey meant to gauge the interest of
the public and private sectors in participating in the CCOIS, but participation was low. These files include research and
correspondence between PRMA and the COICC members, user manuals for the Labor Market Information Survey, and digital media
including three versions of the LMIS on 5 1/4" diskette. The COICC attempted to coordinate a distributed Occupational Information
System by making it voluntary and industry-led, but by 1995 it had returned to a centralized CCOIS concept.
For a complete description of OIS media, see Appendix A of master finding aid.
R189.8, Box 10, folders 1-18
Series 8
Occupational Outlook Reports
1982-2004
Physical Description: 18 file folders
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by subject.
Scope and Content Note
The Occupational Outlook Reports cover a wide variety of labor market information in several regions in California, usually
separated by County. For the first decade of these reports, the information is scattered and not uniform. However, reports
included after 1995, both electronically and in textual format are both comprehensive and uniform. The reports included are
primarily from 2001-2003 and include multi-year projections by the counties.
For a complete description of report titles, see Appendix B of master finding aid.
R189.9, Box 10, folder 19 - Box 11, folder 4
Series 9
Program Files
1986-1988
Physical Description: 7 file folders
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by program.
Scope and Content Note
Program files include records both on the programs developed by the COICC as well as programs led by private industry council,
for-profit groups, other SOICCs, and the NOICC. These include printed and promotional material, correspondence to and from
these groups, and feedback on the COICC's programs such as the Cooperative Occupational Information System. Programs managed
by the COICC included the Labor Market Information Technical Guide program, the Occupational Handbook Workshop Guide, the
guide to the Dictionary of Occupational Titles, and the distribution of research on paths to entering the workplace.
R189.10, Box 11, folders 5-14
Series 10
Project Files
1987-1995
Physical Description: 10 file folders
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by project.
Scope and Content Note
Project files include documentation on the various tasks which the COICC performed, including preparation for conferences,
development of strategies to fulfill its mandate of labor market dissemination, and the creation of guides to career development
training. Some projects included finding local partners for the California Cooperative Information System, the Career Development
Training Guide, and the Vocational Training Wage Data project.
R189.11, Box 11, folder 15 - Box 12, folder 6
Series 11
Report Files
1978-2004
Physical Description: 15 file folders
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by subject.
Scope and Content Note
Reports created or retained by the COICC including those on labor market information, career development training, career
reeducation and workforce adjustment, workforce development, and vocational and technical education.
R189.12, Box 12, folder 7 - Box 13, folder 9
Series 12
Subject Files
1988-2002
Physical Description: 26 file folders
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by subject.
Scope and Content Note
Subject files span a wide array of topics of interest or use to the COICC and typically consist of correspondence, background
material, newspaper clippings, notes, reports, legislation, and educational tools. Some subjects of specific interest to the
COICC are SB178 (1983-1984) which reauthorized the COICC with a mandate for labor market information gathering and distribution,
the Carl D. Perkins Act for Vocational and Technical Education of 1984, which contained information similar to SB178 on the
federal level, the COICC's distribution of the "California Career Video" series, and the Real Game/Make It Real Game for use
in the public school system at differing grade levels.
For a complete description of subject headings, see Appendix C of master finding aid.