The Steering Committee met monthly to inform, educate, and guide the Core Team in all of the work planned and conducted under the SIM grant. In particular, the group guided the Core Team’s decisions about investment of project funds, necessary changes in state policy and how best to influence desired innovation in the private sector.
The membership of the Steering Committee brought an array of perspectives from multiple agencies within state government, and multiple groups and organizations from outside state government. The Steering Committee included at least one of the co-chairs of each work group, who reported on the recommendations of those work groups in specific subject areas defined in their charters