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Officer working conditions and quality of life concerns
3:11:32
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Council Member Paladino raises concerns about the impact of long working hours on correction officers' quality of life. Commissioner Maginley-Liddie acknowledges the challenges and discusses potential solutions.
- Officers are working approximately 140 hours of overtime a month, including triple shifts
- DOC is reviewing staffing models to provide better relief for officers
- A proposal for 12-hour tours in some facilities was considered but is being reevaluated based on staff feedback
- The commissioner emphasizes the importance of allowing staff time to recuperate from challenging work
Vickie Paladino
3:11:32
They don't.
3:11:33
I agree.
3:11:34
Let me let me go to my next question.
3:11:37
With the offices doing approximately a hundred and forty hours of overtime a month and working triple shifts, How do we balance their quality of life in order to avoid continued physical and mental anguish?
3:11:52
That is something Programming officers?
Lynelle Maginley-Liddie
3:11:55
That is something that we're reviewing as a team.
3:11:58
What does the staffing model looks like in terms of relief?
3:12:01
Recently I proposed doing twelve hour tours in some of the facilities and we listened to the staff and their feedback and their concerns and as a result we're evaluating what is the best path forward.
3:12:14
But it is important for our staff to have time that they can recuperate from this from this work because it's challenging work.
Vickie Paladino
3:12:23
And so we Sitting in this position now going on my fourth year, I came into this job and it was about my, my correction officers, my any sort of law enforcement.
3:12:36
And I have to tell you, we're having the same questions here over and over again.
3:12:39
It's four years later.
3:12:40
I'm asking the same questions.
3:12:43
So thus far, we have not seen any solutions whatsoever.
3:12:48
We put you before a panel, you sit before us, we ask you questions, and yet there's no real improvement.
3:12:56
So this is a problem and it's an ongoing problem, yet I don't understand why in four years time, we have not yet come up with viable solutions.
3:13:08
I don't understand it.
3:13:10
Where is the gap?
3:13:11
What's going on?
3:13:12
My next question, what pension and benefit incentives can we budget for in order to help recruitment and retention?
3:13:23
Okay.
3:13:23
That's another one.
3:13:25
What about increasing the value of an annual pension credit for any officer who stays beyond full vesting?
3:13:33
That guy should get a gold medal if he stays by, beyond that.
3:13:38
But give me some answers here.