REMARKS
Concerns over DCAS vacancy rate and its impact on city services
2:03:18
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Council Member Restler expresses concern about the high vacancy rate at DCAS and its potential impact on city services. He highlights the importance of DCAS in supporting other agencies' hiring needs.
- DCAS has a 16% vacancy rate with 383 vacancies, one of the highest in the city
- High vacancy rates at DCAS can slow down hiring processes across city government
- The council member emphasizes that understaffing at DCAS negatively impacts the delivery of services to New Yorkers
Lincoln Restler
2:03:18
Yeah.
2:03:18
I agree.
2:03:20
Sorry.
2:03:20
Maybe I shouldn't say that my own question is a good question.
2:03:22
I apologize.
2:03:23
The, but I I I I it's disappointing.
2:03:26
And I just you know, my understanding from our committee report today is that we have a 16% vacancy rate at DCAS, 383 vacancies.
2:03:35
It's one of the highest in the city.
2:03:38
And, you know, when we have a high vacancy rate at DCAS, it slows down everything else in city government.
2:03:44
And when your team isn't staffed up, Deputy Commissioner Porter, it means that we're not helping every other agency staff up and meet their hiring needs.
2:03:52
So it has a significant negative impact on our ability to provide the services that New Yorkers depend on.
2:04:00
So I I appreciate your answers to those questions.
2:04:02
I I Alright.
2:04:08
I'll do 1 or 2 more and then I I'll shut up.
2:04:12
The work so my under your testimony indicated that our our bill intro 75, the public hiring tracker, the the we were too ambitious in our biweekly reporting and our, biweekly data and and twice annual reporting.
2:04:30
But the reason we wanted to part of the reason we wanted to have this information is to better understand vacancies in real time so that we can advocate appropriately.
2:04:38
Part of it's also because the workforce profile reports are always delayed.
2:04:42
And I don't think this is a new thing or a current DCAS thing.
2:04:45
When I worked in in the administration side, the workforce profile reports were always delayed then too.
2:04:51
But how do we speed up getting the workforce profile reports out?
2:04:54
Do we have any timeline for when f y 23 and f y 24 are gonna be released?
