QUESTION
What led to the decline in average building cleanliness for DCAS managed spaces and how is it being addressed?
1:19:03
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The decline in average building cleanliness for DCAS managed non court spaces was due to staffing attrition, physically taxing work, and shifting priorities, leading to staff shortages and impacts on their work locations.
- Staff attrition and difficulty retaining custodial assistance were primary factors in the decline.
- The physically taxing nature of the work and staff shortages contributed to the decrease in cleanliness ratings.
- Efforts are being made to address staffing challenges by working with OMB to backfill positions.
- Shifting priorities requiring staff to float between locations also impacted the cleanliness of the buildings.
Lincoln Restler
1:19:03
I wanted to ask you about average building cleanliness.
1:19:06
We saw this in the PMMR that the non court spaces.
1:19:11
The average building fundliness and condition rating for decast managed non court spaces was down 10% from 72% to 62% Could you give us any insight in this decline and is there any and how what you're doing to reverse it?
Dawn M. Pinnock
1:19:25
So the decline was certainly relating to some attrition.
1:19:31
We have custodial city custodial assistance that performed that work.
1:19:34
The nature of that work is very difficult, in some cases, physically taxing, and it's very difficult to retain staff in that particular role.
1:19:43
That is one of the titles we're actively and aggressively working with OMB to to backfill our our positions.
1:19:50
And there were also some other priorities that had impacted the nature of their work where we had to have staff float between locations and close proximity.
Lincoln Restler
1:20:03
That is helpful.
1:20:04
I I certainly wouldn't have thought I mean, I'm disappointed to hear that staffing is the the primary challenge behind it.
1:20:12
I think that covers all the questions I had asked, but I just wanna ask you commissioners to anything else we didn't cover today that you would like add oh, okay.