QUESTION
What are the staffing levels and responsibilities of the City Clerk's office, specifically for the Marriage Bureau and Lobbying Bureau?
1:16:59
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The City Clerk explains the current staffing levels in the office.
- The overall headcount is 55 staffers, down from 62 due to budget cuts.
- The Lobbying Bureau, referred to as the 'non-love side', has 5 full-time staff members working on lobbying matters.
- The Marriage Bureau, called the 'love bureau', handles marriage licenses and ceremonies.
- In addition, the office oversees other functions like presiding over City Council meetings, administering oaths of office, handling deeds, and conducting bonds.
- With the reduced staffing, the office is performing all its functions and responsibilities across the different bureaus.
Shahana K. Hanif
1:16:59
And now is somebody in the process of being hired?
1:17:04
Or could you just walk me through what are the proactive steps to make sure that folks who were not meant to do this specifically are not bearing the the obstacles.
Michael McSweeney
1:17:17
We actually could not because of the the pegs that our agency had endured.
1:17:23
Our head count was reduced.
1:17:24
We our head count was 62, and it went down to 55.
1:17:29
In the last pegs, so we cannot hire any anyone new at the present time.
Gale A. Brewer
1:17:34
You said to 50 55.
Shahana K. Hanif
1:17:36
55 from 60 62.
1:17:40
Got it.
UNKNOWN
1:17:41
Oh, I just wanna sorry.
1:17:43
I just wanna add, we are the marriage bureau.
1:17:45
Right?
1:17:45
That's the love side.
1:17:47
And also the lobbying bureau, which I call the non love side.
1:17:50
So just to clarify, the lobbying bureau has 5.
1:17:55
Members, staff that full time work on the lobbying bureau.
1:17:59
So And
Shahana K. Hanif
1:17:59
then the the married I was about to say the love bureau, but
UNKNOWN
1:18:02
Right.
1:18:02
The love bureau.
1:18:04
So that number includes both bureaus.
1:18:06
And in addition to our other functions such as, you know, our steam commissioner, who presides overcity council meetings, commissioner of deeds, oaths of office, you know, we conduct bonds, you know, and Certainly, my my general counsel could speak more to that.
1:18:22
So we have multiple functions that we are performing with that headcount, and it's five people that are performing in large part, the act activities and functions of the lobbying bureau.