Business representative: internship partnership helped recruit workers with needed skills

Commenter, a business representative, told the meeting that a partnership linking the company with an internship program has helped recruit workers with the skills the firm needs.

"It's an uphill battle to get people with with the right skills. Really, people that want to go to work. This helps out a lot," the Commenter said. "This partnership has benefited our business, as far as reaching reaching people that we might not, have reached. We really developed a, a program that takes interns and kinda shows them really what, what our side of the industry does."

The remark occurred during a participant comment recorded in the meeting transcript; no formal motions, votes, or policy decisions about the partnership were recorded in the provided excerpt. The speaker described the arrangement as producing interns and giving them hands-on exposure to the business's side of the industry, and said the partnership expanded the pool of candidates the company could reach.

No details were provided in the transcript about the partnership's name, the number of interns, funding sources, or any formal agreement terms. The meeting record excerpt does not show staff follow-up, board direction, or formal action tied to the comment.