QUESTION
How are savings determined from the most recent pegs and what is the impact on agency operations?
1:55:24
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3 min
Savings are determined based on revenue generation, attrition, and vacancies, with one-time reductions and efforts to fill vacancies to meet budgetary needs.
- Savings are achieved through revenue generation and examining attrition and vacancies.
- One-time reductions are made to meet budget targets.
- Efforts are made to hire staff to address operational needs.
- Work-from-home initiatives have led to restructuring of salary structures.
Lincoln Restler
1:55:24
Judge, can you lay out for us how are the savings determined from the most recent pegs and what will be the impact on agency operations?
Judge Sylvia Hinds-Radix
1:55:34
You have the art,
Lincoln Restler
1:55:37
if you want.
Motte Araf
1:55:40
Sure.
1:55:40
So in light of the our budget condition and and the headcount that was just mentioned, We try where possible to bring in revenue to meet the pegs.
1:55:55
In the absence of that, we work with the OOB task force where it's not possible that the revenue will be realized on time.
1:56:02
They look into our attrition, into our vacancies condition.
1:56:06
And they plug in a difference.
1:56:08
So that, for example, 56 reduction that you mentioned, it's a one time reduction.
1:56:14
It's not a baseline.
1:56:15
So the the head count Authorized.
1:56:17
But
Lincoln Restler
1:56:17
in addition to the 63 baseline reduction that you had to deal with just recently.
Michael J.Ryan
1:56:21
That's good.
1:56:22
Yeah.
Lincoln Restler
1:56:22
So that's a lot in in in, you know, 119 positions out of a 15 100 person workforce from about, you know, a significant impact on laws operations and capacities.
1:56:33
Correct?
1:56:35
That's what I thought.
1:56:36
Is there something you wanted to add?
Judge Sylvia Hinds-Radix
1:56:38
Yeah.
1:56:38
Sure.
Eric Eichenholtz
1:56:39
I I thought I would just and also a council member because I think your question was also, you know, how are we going you know, how do we deal with this this I think we all agree.
1:56:48
It's a lot of reduction.
1:56:50
And we work, I think, and and and I really do appreciate OMB has been reset active to our concerns when these issues arise, and we work with them to identify needs.
1:57:03
So one of the things is the judge mentioned that was a knowledge to us was recruitment was down.
1:57:08
And as a result of recruitment, we had a large number of vacancies.
1:57:12
And obviously, from a budgetary perspective, then those vacancies you know, the management budget will look at that and say, you have a lot of vacancies.
1:57:20
And we said, we wanna hire into those vacancies.
1:57:23
We wanna make sure that we have staff that are taking care of the needs and things like that.
1:57:27
And they've been, you know, partnered to us that when we've identified staff, they've been supportive, they've been creative, with and and and credit a lot of our revenue to try and reduce the number of vacancy reductions And this year, as the judge mentioned, with work from home, they worked with us and they approved a restructuring of our attorney's salary structure.
1:57:50
Share based on what we're seeing from the DA's office and the AG's office to make our salaries more in line and more competitive, plus we have the recent cola adjustments that were very full.
1:58:00
So from our perspective, we expect that we our our hiring is gonna take up.
1:58:05
And what we have what we've discussed with Home Depot, we'll continue to discuss in I can assure you we'll continue to to do is if our hiring makes it such that we're reaching a point where this new head count where we're going against this new headcount and their needs that are important, they they will continue to speak with us about meeting those needs, about floating over headcount of things like that.
1:58:28
Obviously, with no promises or commitments, but we intend to advocate, and we will work with them.
1:58:33
If if we have that per that personnel and if we have those needs, we will continue to make sure