b'WECA ARIZONA EXPANSION, 2020 WECA FRESNO EXPANSION, 2021WECA\'s apprenticeship and training programs have enjoyed a WECA kicked off 2021 with the opening of ourgrowing national reputation for some years, and in 2020, Fresno training facility. The facilitywhich servesWECA Arizona Founding Member Contractor Corbins Electric member contractors and their employees in thepresented WECA with the opportunity to expand into the Fresno, Mariposa, Merced, Madera, San Benito,state of Arizona.Monterey, San Luis Obispo, Kern, Kings, Tulare, andInyo county areasis located in the dynamic,Corbins had become familiar with WECA\'s reputation as the business-focused Palm Bluffs region of Fresno andbest electrical apprenticeship program in California when offers the Commercial Electrical Apprenticeshipemployees of theirs who had first-hand experience of our program. WECA is particularly focused onapprenticeship training and working for our member workforce development and regional relationshipcontractors shared with their executives the value of their building in the Central Valley.experience with WECA. Terry Seabury explained that shortlythereafter, "Corbins Electric, one of the largest merit shop WECA SAN DIEGO RELOCATION, 2020electrical contracting companies in Arizona, reached out to usto ask how they could get WECA training for their employees.They saw a need for better continuing education for theirjourneyperson employees, and also felt that their apprentices,who until now have been attending two other programs inthe region, could be better served by WECA\'s comprehensive,competency-based curriculum, two weeks per semesterdaytime training model, and skilled instruction. After ourBoard of Directors and Apprenticeship and Training Trusteesmet with Corbins, we came to the mutual conclusion that ourtraining programs were an excellent match for their needs,and that substantial opportunity existed for WECA in Arizonaas a whole. The rest is history. We established WECA as abusiness entity in Arizona, and swiftly gained approval for afour-year iteration of our Commercial ElectricalApprenticeship program from the Department of Economic WECA\'s continued expansion isn\'t limited to just new citiesSecurity in Arizona. With that taken care of, we selected an or states. We also expanded by moving our longtime Sanoptimal training facility in Phoenix, and built out the space for Diego training facility to a newly-built facility shared bydelivery of our technically-advanced, hands-on labs. Keith Associated General Contractors San Diego.Smart, previously our lead apprenticeship instructor at ourRiverside training facility, was promoted into a new role with Terry Seabury explained that "We\'ve beenWECA as the Manager of our new Arizona location, and we\'re outgrowing our previous San Diego training facility,thrilled with the work he did to establish our training facility which we established back in 2002, due to theand Commercial Electrical Apprenticeship program in significantly increased number of apprentices,Phoenix." electrician trainees and journeyperson continuingeducation students taking classes from us in SanThe Phoenix training facility greeted its inaugural Arizona Diego in the intervening years. When AGC Sanapprenticeship class in January 2021 and graduated it first Diego leadership invited us to consider sharingclass of Journey Workers into the Arizona commercial space in their their new location, or their existingelectrical industry in February 2023. Ferris Square location, we were excited to explore'