SB336 Summary

• Creates the South Baldwin Regional Workforce Development Authority in Baldwin County to foster workforce development, community betterment, entrepreneurship, and business innovation through collaboration between businesses, educational organizations, and local municipalities, operating in the portion of the county south of or adjacent to Baldwin County Road 32.

• Board of directors consists of chief executive officers of the South Alabama Chamber of Commerce and Alabama Coastal Business Chamber (voting members), three business members from each chamber selected by their respective CEOs (voting members), mayors of Gulf Shores, Orange Beach, and Foley (non-voting members), and up to three additional members appointed by board majority vote (voting members).

• Board members appointed under chamber selections serve three-year terms with staggered initial terms of one, two, and three years; additional appointed members serve one-year terms; requires organizational meeting within 30 days to adopt bylaws and select officers; board meets monthly with a quorum defined as two-thirds of voting members.

• Authority may employ an executive director as chief executive officer and other personnel as needed; has power to acquire, finance, construct, sell, lease property; enter contracts and accept grants; employ legal and accounting assistance; and perform acts necessary for accomplishing its public purposes.

• Authority and all its property, income, conveyances, deeds, leases, mortgages, and deeds of trust are exempt from all state and local taxation including income, ad valorem, sales, excise, license, and privilege taxes.