Q&A
Staffing requirements for implementing Intro 871
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Council Member Nantasha M. Williams inquires about the estimated staffing needs for implementing Intro 871, based on the cost estimate provided by OMB. CCHR representatives explain the various roles that would be involved in implementation.
- The estimate includes 10 positions, but this doesn't necessarily mean 10 new hires if the bill passes.
- Roles mentioned include executive agency counsel, executive director of training development, supervising attorneys, agency attorneys, community coordinator, and human rights specialists.
- These roles would be distributed across different departments, including the Law Enforcement Bureau, Community Relations Bureau, and Office of the Chair.
- Functions would include case processing, administrative work, community outreach, and developing legal guidance and public-facing materials.
Nantasha M. Williams
1:53:53
Okay.
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And, yes, this new law that we all have to comply with where we get the financial impact statements has, like, caused us to, like, think about things now even though, you know, we were just chatting.
1:54:05
Like, things can change.
1:54:06
So not sure how, effective it is to have this now.
1:54:13
But it's good information, at least, for us to be able to interrogate in these hearings.
1:54:19
Specifically, the cost estimate provided to the committee by OMB for intro A71 that you just to the committee by OMB for intro a 71 that you just mentioned estimated that CCHR would need to hire 10 positions to implement the bill, including 1 executive agency counsel, 1 executive director of training development, 2 supervising attorneys, 2 agency attorney level twos, 1 agency attorney level 1, 1 community coordinator, 1 associate of human rights, specialist, and 1, human rights specialist.
1:54:52
Can you tell us how each of these roles would focus what each of these roles would focus on and how they would work together if intro 8 some 871 were to be enacted?
JoAnn Kamuf Ward
1:55:04
So just wanna be clear again.
1:55:07
This is not saying if 871 passes, we need 10 new roles.
1:55:11
This is saying these are the type of roles that would be involved in implementation of 871.
1:55:18
I'm happy to talk about each of them.
1:55:20
So I think executive director of training and compliance is is a is probably clear from its title thinking, and this goes to to what chair Hanks was saying, education and outreach on changes in the law is super important.
1:55:35
We recognize that.
1:55:36
I've already I've mentioned that we're revamping some of our trainings, and that remains, an an area where CCHR wants to, continue to focus because prevention is obviously the key to a city free from discrimination.
1:55:52
The supervising attorneys and the agency attorneys are folks that would work in the law enforcement bureau to process cases, either frontline staff or the supervising staff that the deputy commissioner of law enforcement, spoke about.
1:56:06
And then some the community coordinator titles, associate human rights and human rights specialists are either working in LEB on the administrative and intake side or working in our community relations bureau in terms of getting the word out of of new of new protections.
1:56:23
And then the other, the other executive agency counsel listed here could potentially be in the law enforcement bureau or could potentially be in the office of the chair working on things that I talked about, like appeals of cases from the law enforcement bureau, legal enforcement guidance, and public facing materials for a more legal audience.
