QUESTION
What are the staff and security ratios at shelters, and what instances of violence have occurred?
1:40:06
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Molly Schaeffer acknowledges the need for detailed staff and security ratios at shelters and discusses reviewing these ratios. Incidents of violence at migrant shelters, including assaults and a stabbing, are mentioned.
- Schaeffer, from the New York City Mayor's Office of Asylum Seeker Operations (MOASO), needs to follow up on staff and security ratios at shelters.
- Council Member Diana I. Ayala highlights specific concerns about security at Randall's Island, mentioning a 50:3000 security officer to individual ratio.
- Schaeffer notes that secure priority and other staffing ratios are reviewed for site appropriateness.
- Incidents of violence at migrant shelters, including an assault on a security guard and a stabbing at Lincoln Center, are discussed.
Diana I. Ayala
1:40:06
Do you know what the staff ratios at Hertz is
Molly Schaeffer
1:40:10
I'd have to get back to
Diana I. Ayala
1:40:11
you on that.
1:40:12
Okay.
1:40:12
And that would include I I I would specifically like to know case and security.
1:40:18
Because my understanding is that at Randall's Island, there are 50 security officers for 3000 individuals.
Molly Schaeffer
1:40:26
We have spent a lot of time reviewing the different secure priority ratios and other staffing ratios to ensure that it makes sense for the sites that we have, and I'm happy to follow-up specifically on Randalls.
Diana I. Ayala
1:40:39
Okay.
1:40:40
There have been further instances of violence in migrant shelters across the city, including another situation at Randalls where security guard was assaulted and a stabbing of a migrant at Lincoln Center.
1:40:50
Actually, the security guard was assaulted, but then the security guard.
1:40:54
I just wanna clarify slash the migrant in the neck, I believe it was.
