Q&A
CORE's staffing and expansion plans
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Linda Tigani provides details on CORE's current staffing situation and plans for future expansion. She explains the organization's growth strategy and the reasons behind their staffing requests.
- CORE currently has 11 out of 12 approved staff positions filled, with the 12th starting soon
- Five additional lines were recently approved in the January plan
- CORE is requesting five more staff in the executive plan to support work on Local Laws 91 and 92
- The expansion aims to build operations and administration teams to manage increased community engagement and funding distribution
Nantasha M. Williams
1:37:32
So the another question that I have is is CORE currently fully staffed and are there any plans for further expansion hiring?
1:37:41
Sure, so when CORE started we were approved to have 12 lines, seven in the
Linda Tigani
1:37:48
first year and five in the second year, the first year being 2024 and the second year being 2025.
1:37:54
Of the 12 lines, 11 staff are in place.
1:37:58
The twelfth staff member was actually just recently secured her start date which is March 10.
1:38:05
So we will have all 12 staff members by the middle of the month.
1:38:08
We were recently approved for five additional lines in the January plan and we are submitting the PARs to OMB and we will be putting up the job descriptions by no later than the March.
1:38:23
However, asking for more staff.
1:38:25
So in the executive plan we will be asking for five more staff and this is to help ensure that the work for Local Law ninety one and ninety two, our New York City study on reparations and truth healing and reconciliation, can in fact be done sufficiently and that's why we need more staff.
1:38:44
But we also needed to build our operations and administration team because we will be giving out more money to community organizations through both of these bills plus we are starting the second cycle of community engagement for the next racial equity plan.
1:39:03
So we are in a interesting time where we are still awaiting the preliminary plan.
1:39:09
However, CORE has already started planning for the second cycle, which we hope to launch in March or early April at the latest so that we can help the city get back on track with the original timeline in the charter and be able to deliver to the city community equity priorities and indicators on October first of twenty twenty five.