Section 54-60-26 - Division of workforce development - Annual reports - North Dakota workforce development council - Budget acceptance1. Annually, job service North Dakota, the department of career and technical education, the department, and the state board of higher education each shall submit a report to the division of workforce development relating to the respective agency's current workforce initiatives and activities and that agency's plan for future workforce initiatives and activities. The division of workforce development shall consider these reports in preparing the consolidated biennial statewide strategic plan for the state's system for workforce development, workforce training, and talent attraction required under section 54-60-19.2. Before November first of each even-numbered year, job service North Dakota, the department of career and technical education, the department, and the state board of higher education each shall present the respective agency's workforce-related budget initiatives for the upcoming biennium, including alignment of these initiatives with the consolidated biennial statewide strategic plan, to the North Dakota workforce development council, created by governor's executive order 1995-01, dated January 3, 1996. The North Dakota workforce development council members shall consider potential areas for collaboration.