QUESTION
What is the hiring plan for FY 25 and beyond at the New York City Law Department?
2:20:05
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The New York City Law Department aims to hire up to their head count for various divisions in order to address specific needs and work with OMB for further hires in the coming fiscal year.
- They plan to first reach the head count and then hire based on specific needs.
- There is no specific goal or projection for the number of hires, but the focus is on maintaining staff levels.
- Previous challenges in hiring were due to external factors affecting the ability to hire.
- Recent changes are expected to help overcome previous hiring difficulties.
David M. Carr
2:20:05
And you referenced in your discussion with chair wrestler and council member brewer, the new tools in your toolbox about hiring up, right, and and giving you more bandwidth to do what you're doing and hopefully go
Lincoln Restler
2:20:15
beyond that.
David M. Carr
2:20:17
So you mentioned you're gonna be hiring up.
2:20:19
What's your expectation for FY 25 in terms of what you hope to hire based on your your budgeted availability.
Eric Eichenholtz
2:20:30
Yeah.
2:20:31
So I I think we start with, you know, in the past few fiscal years, we have not.
2:20:37
One of the reasons our headcount kept, you know, was was reducing the pegs was because we weren't.
2:20:43
Matching and hiring up to our head count.
2:20:45
So I think our our first step is we want to especially with the lower head count, we wanna hire up to that head count.
2:20:53
Our divisions our various divisions have have certain needs that they wanna make sure are addressed and staffed.
2:21:00
And so what's gonna happen is we're gonna reach that head count.
2:21:03
And then after that head count, we're gonna be hiring into those particular needs and working with OMB to do it.
2:21:08
And so I I, you know, I think, especially since a lot of these developments are recent, we don't necessarily have a goal or a projection.
2:21:16
But at the very least, we wanna achieve and to show that this that we can maintain a staff at this head count at a higher head count, and I think that would be our goal for this coming fiscal year.
David M. Carr
2:21:27
Okay.
Judge Sylvia Hinds-Radix
2:21:28
And and remembering that our our not hiring that was not because of our reluctance to do so and and and counsel member here will tell you that last time.
2:21:36
People yeah.
2:21:37
You you you literally couldn't couldn't hire.
2:21:39
I mean, there are law firms out there who cannot hire attorneys either.
2:21:42
That had that has been an issue.
2:21:45
And we were also impacted by this.
2:21:47
So we because of the the changes that we've mentioned, we're hoping that that that we're able to deal with that.
David M. Carr
2:21:55
Okay.
2:21:56
Thank you.
2:21:56
Thank you, chair.