Q&A
State approval process for Civil Service Pathways Fellowship positions
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Council Member Eric Dinowitz inquires about the state approval process for Civil Service Pathways Fellowship positions. DCAS representatives Kadian Outar and Katrina Porter explain the process and limitations.
- The Civil Service Pathways Fellowship uses a specific noncompetitive civil service title
- DCAS must request authorization from the state civil service commission to utilize the title
- The program launched in 2019 with approval for 100 positions and 3 specific tracks
- Recently, DCAS received approval to increase the number of allocated positions from 100 to 200
- The increase in positions is driven by requests from the city administration
- DCAS will continue to monitor the program's success and request increases periodically
Eric Dinowitz
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1, if I like to know, we've been joined by council member, Kevan.
0:46:43
The but it's I just wanna go back to what you said.
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You said the limit is placed by the state.
0:46:48
The state limits the number of students that you're able to recruit for the the Civil Service Pathways Fellowship.
Kadian Outar
0:46:56
The civil service package scholarship is a specific title, civil service title that we use.
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And so in order to allow to hire folks utilizing that title, we have to get approval from the state.
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And, of course, Katrina can add to that if needed.
Katrina Porter
0:47:13
Thank you, Kaden.
0:47:14
So, yes, because the title that's being used is what we call a noncompetitive title, we have to request authorization from the state civil service commission to utilize the title.
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So when the civil service pathway fellowship was first launched in 2019, we received approval from the state civil service commission to fill 100 positions, and there were 3 specific tracks that we were focused on.
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And so over the last year, we submitted a proposal to the state civil service commission to ex increase that number just due to the success of the program and the importance the importance of having excuse me, more flexibility.
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And so we received approval most recently to increase the number of allocated positions from 100 to 200.
Eric Dinowitz
0:48:03
And what do you think is why do you think there are so few positions given the number of applicants?
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Why do you think they're setting the limits so low?
Katrina Porter
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So it's really driven by the request from from the administration, from the city.
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And so we will continue to monitor the success of the program and, you know, request increases periodically.
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This is a 100 a 50% increase.
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So the last cohort might have had about 30 something folks in it.
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This one we were able to double the number to 68.
