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CORE's new staff positions and responsibilities
2:57:29
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Council Member Nantasha Williams inquires about CORE's preliminary budget plan changes, which include funding for four full-time staff members and two part-time interns. Linda Tigani, Chair and Executive Director of CORE, provides detailed information about the roles and responsibilities of these new positions.
- New positions include a compliance senior associate, fiscal senior associate, special project senior associate, and community organizing and engagement associate
- Interns will work up to 25 hours per week on a semester-long basis, focusing on research and policy tasks
- Each new position is assigned to specific teams within CORE and has clearly defined responsibilities
Nantasha Williams
2:57:29
Just a few questions on the prelim plan changes and headcount.
2:57:33
So in the prelim plan, it included a hundred and $36,000 in fiscal twenty twenty five and $429,000 of baseline funding starting in fiscal twenty twenty six to cover full time four full time staff members as well as two part time interns.
2:57:49
What are the role and responsibilities of these additional positions?
2:57:53
What are the responsibilities of the part time interns and how many hours are they required to work?
Linda Tigani
2:57:59
Thank you for those questions.
2:58:01
I'll say we were just talking about the interns the other day and the hours that they are gonna be required to work.
2:58:07
So our interns are going to go according to a semester a semester long internship and will be allowed to continue or roll over into the next semester if the project that they're working on could use some more time and they're working out and their school or their other life arrangements allow for that.
2:58:30
Right now we're stating that interns cannot work more than twenty five hours a week.
2:58:35
They are also allotted a hybrid schedule with and they will be working with the research and policy team assigned to the fundamental values by the fundamental values, which is the justly thriving all talents justly valuing all talents and contributions, ensuring the condition of thriving, and embracing remedy and reconstruction.
2:58:59
With respect to the other lines, I just wanna go back to my budget section to make sure I get the names right.
2:59:07
So with respect to these lines, the first one is the complete compliance senior associate That line is going to be a part of our operations and administration team.
2:59:19
They are our EEO officer.
2:59:21
They are going to be our every report that city council requires, any report that the mayor's team requires, our language access and disability access.
2:59:31
Right now, all of those roles are spread across the the team.
2:59:36
None of those roles were a part of the team's original job descriptions, and so we able to work with OMB to create one line.
2:59:45
We have a fiscal senior associate coming in, and that senior associate is gonna be responsible for all of our budgeting and payments, whether it is for operational needs or working with our contractors for making sure that our community organizations are getting paid.
3:00:03
Our special project senior associate, that individual is working to coordinate local law ninety one and ninety two, but also may be taking in other projects as projects are shared with core.
3:00:16
And sorry, the compliance and fiscal senior associate are both going to the director of operations and administration.
3:00:22
That's who they will be reporting to.
3:00:24
Our special project senior associate, which is local law ninety one and ninety two, will be reporting to Cairo.
3:00:31
And we have an additional community organizing and engagement associate.
3:00:35
That person will be reporting to Lorenzo who's our director our director for this lane.
3:00:42
That role is also specifically going to be spending 50% or more of their time coordinating across local law ninety one and ninety two, specifically community facing.
3:00:55
So they will be building the network of groups that are interested in early and often updates on reparations and then also making sure that the groups that are participating in truth healing and reconciliation are getting everything that they need and are fully supported by CORE.