REMARKS
Proposal for study on revenue loss due to hiring delays
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Council Member Julie Menin raises concerns about the deterrent effect of lengthy hiring processes on potential public servants and suggests a study to quantify the revenue loss caused by hiring delays.
- Menin points out that long wait times and OMB interference may deter people from entering public service
- She requests the committees to ask the Independent Budget Office (IBO) to conduct a study on revenue loss due to hiring delays
- Menin uses the Department of Buildings as an example, where vacancies are delaying economic development and construction projects
Julie Menin
0:38:52
Right.
0:38:53
Absolutely.
0:38:54
And I guess 2 more things I just wanna add.
0:38:56
It's also gonna be a deterrent for people to enter public service if they have to wait 6 months to get the job interview, and then they're being second guessed and and being questioned by OMB as opposed to an agency commissioner.
0:39:08
That is a deterrent, particularly when in so many roles, people can make more money in the private sector.
0:39:13
We're serving as a major deterrent for people serving as public service.
0:39:16
The last thing I want to make is just a, request to the chairs, a thought.
0:39:21
It it would be great if if if the committees could ask the independent budget office to do a study of the revenue that is being lost by these kinds of delays.
0:39:32
If you take, for example, the Department of Buildings alone, you've got all these vacant place all these vacant positions that are delaying economic development projects, construction projects.
0:39:41
If we could get IBO to do an analysis of all of these vacancies and the revenue that the city of New York is losing because OMB is inserting itself where it shouldn't be.
