TESTIMONY
Member of the Public on Addressing Bias in Testing and Enhancing Community Outreach by the Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS)
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A member of the public critiques the biased testing procedures by the Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS) and underscores the need for more engaging community outreach.
- The speaker stresses the importance of DCAS adapting their outreach and hiring practices to be more inclusive and reflective of New York City's diversity.
- They highlight issues with biased testing procedures that don't accurately measure individuals' capabilities, especially affecting communities of varying backgrounds.
- The testimonial suggests implementing paid internships and more hands-on training opportunities to improve employment opportunities.
- The member of the public emphasizes the significance of meeting people where they are, including in educational settings, to promote equitable access to opportunities.
- They advocate for DCAS to actively reach out to all communities within the city to ensure fair hiring and testing processes.
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Peace and grace, everyone.
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My I actually was attending attending another meeting, but this was quite interesting, and I do have questions.
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You know, that's why it's always great to be versatile.
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And I'm not putting all your eggs in one basket.
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My question would be basically be and I first of all, I wanna thank the Rosa and the committee counsel for pulling this together and all the other persons that I hear from the city of New York.
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But what I wanted to say would was direct towards the decast.
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If you keep doing to miss Porter, if you keep doing the same thing, you're gonna get the same answers.
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A lot of people learn from different ways and walks of life.
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You everybody cannot always pass an exam because sometimes exams are not always their bias.
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And they're not always equal in various communities.
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So this is not an excuse for a person feeling the exam or not doing If you're not taught something, you're not and not have experience with something or not have hands on something, you're not gonna know something.
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So it's better to have them them reach out, Decast, reach out to some of the communities of all ethnic persuasions and and and races in in this city, this diverse city, and be able to reach into the schools and the students and reach them where they are and meet them where they are.
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Look down at things that beneath you, look at people in the eye because they're your equal look only up to your creator if you believe in that.
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So my my my in closing, I would say that they they could do a better job and helping, and then they probably have to do this to the mayor.
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That would have to be able to reach out to the masses of people.
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You have a lot of people here that are unemployed.
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I look I listen to the numbers of the police.
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I listen to all those Sony numbers.
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You We can do a better job in getting people back to work, and you don't have to have a high rate of Social Security or the workable people or public assistance or anything like that.
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If they would go out there and do provide some type of training, I'm not saying go to programs programs of television.
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That's programming.
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We're talking about maybe perhaps after school or work hall studies.
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When they reach the universities, they reach the community in the high schools, and do internships that are paid.
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Nobody wants to do anything for free now because we'll get ready to go into this AI thing that these wealthy people are pushing on us.
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So we most people know hands on before technology just took over.
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So my best solution to them would be to be able to reach to the masses of people and be able to get out to the schools and be able to help promote their their statue of hiring process, and then also test taking.
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Everybody cannot take a test.
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I'm looking at people now.
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Or public housing resident council, president, and a lot of people can't even fill out the application will have seasonal jobs.
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So those things are important.
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Now what may not be important in your community definitely important in mind.
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So I thank you for your time.
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I see my time is up, and thank you very much.
