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Additional staffing needs for CORE
3:01:12
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Linda Tigani discusses CORE's additional staffing needs that have been requested for FY '26 but not yet received. She emphasizes the importance of these positions for the organization's efficiency and ability to meet its mandates.
- Requested positions include a chief of staff, executive assistant, research visualization designer, research and policy associate, and racial equity impact associate
- These roles are needed to support various aspects of CORE's work, including organizational efficiency, community engagement, and meeting charter mandates
- Tigani anticipates potential future requests for additional funding as CORE continues to grow and develop
Nantasha Williams
3:01:12
Thanks.
3:01:12
Can you speak to any additional needs that CORE has asked on before and has yet to receive?
Linda Tigani
3:01:20
We just put in the ask for FY '26 for additional lines.
3:01:26
We have not received those yet but that right now is actually the only outstanding ask.
3:01:33
So those lines are really essential for the office.
3:01:37
This includes a chief of staff.
3:01:39
Right now, I'm the only executive director and chair of a commission without any support from myself.
3:01:47
I certainly have a senior leadership team that's an amazing team and we have junior associates that are wonderful, but I do not have a chief of staff or an executive assistant or a special assistant and that is really required to make sure that we have organizational efficiency.
3:02:04
I have also asked for additional support for the teams as the projects continue to grow.
3:02:11
We did ask for a research visualization designer.
3:02:16
What we're hearing from community groups is that they want more infographics, they want more videos, they want more audio, and we own we have a communications team that's two people and they're wonderful and great at their job, but they are responsible for all charter mandates as well as local law ninety one and ninety two, so we want to build up that team.
3:02:38
We are also asking for a research and policy associate.
3:02:41
Maya has one staff person.
3:02:44
They do all of the work for the community equity profiles.
3:02:49
They're analyzing over 4,000 pieces of data.
3:02:53
They are also responsible for developing and a system to track and monitor what the city agencies are gonna be doing with respect to racial equity.
3:03:04
Maya's team will also have well, the research and policy person that we're asking for is also gonna be supporting local law ninety one and ninety two, and we do need another community engagement associate.
3:03:17
So when I spoke to OMB in the last budgeting round, we did talk about what is the potential growth for CORE, what are the roles that we need.
3:03:29
As a reminder, I was not here when the organizational chart was first created.
3:03:34
And so when I came in, I had to restructure the chart, and I also had to ask for more money able to support our organizations.
3:03:43
I anticipate being able to I anticipate having to ask for more money in the future as CORE continues to build out its base, which is great.
3:03:55
But for right now we actually need the staffing support so that we can meet all of our mandates.
3:04:00
We're also asking for a racial equity impact associate.
3:04:07
That person is gonna focus on charter mandate number four and five.
3:04:12
We are receiving complaints from the public about how agency conduct may have the effect of exacerbating racial equity disparities.
3:04:21
The language in the charter indicates that it is not on the public to make the determination about whether or not racial equity disparities are exacerbated.
3:04:31
It is actually on core to make that determination and we do not have staff to do that work.