Q&A
Council member questions union president about Department of Probation vacancies
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Council Member Carmen N. De La Rosa inquires about the Department of Probation's vacancy rate and communication with the union regarding a qualification review. Dalvanie Powell, the union president, reveals a lack of direct communication from the department about the review and expresses concerns about a new bridge program.
- The Department of Probation has an 18.5% vacancy rate with 200 job vacancies.
- DCAS mentioned a qualification review, but the union was not directly informed by the department.
- The union president learned about the review through a meeting with Mr. Molina and Katrina, not from the department itself.
Carmen N. De La Rosa
1:38:35
Thank you all for being here.
1:38:37
I do have a few questions.
1:38:39
So let me start my questioning with, Dalvani.
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Dalvani?
1:38:46
Dalvani.
1:38:47
Thank you so much for being here, miss Powell.
1:38:50
I as you noticed, we did ask the question to DCAS around the vacancy rates at the Department of Probation, which the information we have before us is that the vacancy rate is currently 18.5% vacancy.
1:39:04
There's 200, vacant, job vacancies job vacancies right now.
1:39:12
The response that we got was that Department of Probation is currently undergoing a qualification review.
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Has that information been given to the union in terms of qualification review?
Dalvanie Powell
1:39:24
We had, we met with DCAS a couple of weeks ago, me and my attorney, regarding this bridge program they was telling us about, which I'm not too thrilled about.
1:39:35
Okay.
1:39:35
Okay.
1:39:36
So that's another conversation.
1:39:37
But they they mentioned she Katrina mentioned about the requalifications.
Christopher Leon Johnson
1:39:43
Mhmm.
Oren Barzilay
1:39:43
I'm
Dalvanie Powell
1:39:43
still trying to figure out what is that gonna look like.
Megan Chambers
1:39:46
Mhmm.
Dalvanie Powell
1:39:47
But what was the question again?
Carmen N. De La Rosa
1:39:49
So my my question was have they has the department notified the union that there's a requalies No.
Dalvanie Powell
1:39:58
She no.
1:39:59
I found out through meeting with mister Molina and Katrina, but the department never mentioned it to
Katrina Porter
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us.
1:40:04
Okay.
Dalvanie Powell
1:40:05
I was kinda surprised that another exam was canceled again.
Carmen N. De La Rosa
1:40:08
Mhmm.
1:40:08
Well, let's follow-up online offline on on the situation.
1:40:13
And yeah.
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That was my question because I wanted to kind of see the communication between the department and the union was yeah.
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We'll talk offline.
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Okay.
1:40:21
And then, to the laundry workers, thank you for being here.