QUESTION
How does the current staffing level for lifeguards compare to the required number?
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Council Member Shekar Krishnan inquires about lifeguard staffing levels, revealing a discrepancy between the necessary and current numbers, with improvements noted for 2023.
- The necessary number of lifeguards is corrected to about 1400, not 1600 as initially mentioned.
- Last year, staffing was close to 800, similar to the previous year.
- In 2022, 120 new recruits were added, and 2023 saw an increase to 189 recruits.
- Over 500 individuals qualified for training in 2023, exceeding the previous year's numbers.
- Recruitment encompasses a process of qualifiers, training classes, and a final exam to determine assignment to beaches or pools.
Shekar Krishnan
0:46:45
My first question is, but as I understand it, last year, I think cognitive numbers are wrong, but I think we fully staffing beaches and pools, and you need about 1600 lifeguards.
0:46:55
And I think Parks was at 800 last year.
0:46:59
Maybe a little bit less the year before.
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Is that give or take?
0:47:03
Right from where we need to be and where we're at?
Sue Donoghue
0:47:07
Thank you for the question.
0:47:08
Not 1600.
0:47:09
We generally say about 1400 lifeguards.
Shekar Krishnan
0:47:12
And then
Sue Donoghue
0:47:13
last year, we were close to 800.
Shekar Krishnan
0:47:14
800.
0:47:15
In the year before?
Sue Donoghue
0:47:17
I think it was close to that as well, close to 800,
Shekar Krishnan
0:47:19
so we can
Sue Donoghue
0:47:22
look.
0:47:22
And
Iris Rodriguez-Rosa
0:47:23
we increased just to add that we increased the number.
0:47:27
We had a 120 new recruits in 202320 I mean, 2020 2.
0:47:31
In 2023, we had 189 that actually made it through the whole process.
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So it's important to note that we have individuals that go for the qualifiers.
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And then after they qualify, they have a certain number that come in into the training classes.
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And after the training classes at the fine end of it, then there's a final exam.
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And those are the ones that actually are assigned to either the beaches or the pools.
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So just to to share with you that at this time last year, we had about 375 individuals that were in the class actually going through the training.
0:48:05
On their past actually, they passed the qualifiers.
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This year, we exceeded over 500 that actually qualified to be able to go into the training class.
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Classes.
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Now, of course, there there may be drop offs.
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We have to understand there may be individuals that passed and that are eligible to go into the training but may not go.
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And then at the end of it, we'll see what we what we arrive at.
