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EEPC staffing levels and new positions
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Council Member Nantasha Williams inquires about the Equal Employment Practices Commission's (EEPC) staffing levels and new positions. Jeanne Victor, Executive Director of EEPC, provides details on recent hires and additional staffing needs.
- EEPC filled two out of three new positions in February: an EEO program specialist and a research analyst
- The third position (another research analyst) is still vacant due to a candidate dropping out
- EEPC is requesting additional positions, including a communications director and entry-level positions in IT and human resources
Nantasha Williams
1:40:32
So in our budget response, the council called out the administration last year's budget response, the council called in the administration to increase your staffing levels by five.
1:40:41
In the fiscal twenty twenty five adopted budget, your staffing levels were increased by three positions.
1:40:46
Have you been able to fill the three new positions?
1:40:48
I know you mentioned the agency attorney.
1:40:52
If not, why not have you been able to fill the three new positions?
1:40:56
And what is the job description and salary for each new position and do you still have any additional staffing needs going forward?
Jeanne Victor
1:41:03
So as for the three positions that were were given back to us as part of the part of the budget hearings from last year.
1:41:15
We have just recently, back in February actually, February eighteenth of this year, we were able to fill two of those positions, two of the three.
1:41:23
One was an EEO program specialist.
1:41:26
The EEO program specialist handles the audits for the EEPC and it's an entry level position.
1:41:33
And the other one is for a research analyst position that would be working on the research unit team.
1:41:40
The third position, we had also selected a candidate.
1:41:46
It would have been a research analyst position.
1:41:50
The candidate dropped out of the process before we could hire, actually bring her on board because the process has taken was taking a little too long.
1:42:00
It has taken approximately, like, six months to fill that position, those two positions and we're working on replacing the candidate that we lost for the third position.
1:42:13
You hired for two?
1:42:16
We were able to hire two of the three.
Nantasha Williams
1:42:18
Okay.
1:42:19
Thank you.
1:42:25
Do you still have any additional staffing needs?
1:42:27
That was the other question.
1:42:30
Yes.
Katherine Carroll
1:42:32
Positions?
Jeanne Victor
1:42:33
So we were looking to council city council for a communications director to help us to craft our our materials and the message in in to be consistent with the findings that we're making from the ports the reports that we are currently drafting.
1:42:54
As I said in my remarks, we do have six reports that are out there, but no one really knows of us because we're so small and because we're not public facing.
1:43:03
So we would be asking for someone to help with our communications.
1:43:07
We would also be asking for some entry level positions to account for the fact that in city government, the the way the process for promotions and and the like will result from being on lists, on civil service lists, moving from agency to agency.
1:43:28
And we've experienced a great deal of of loss of personnel over the last few years.
1:43:35
So what I was requesting was an entry level person for on the computer side and an entry level person for human resources to account for the fact that we need to grow new people into these positions so that when people move on as they inevitably do, we do have some backup, and we're not starting from square one and waiting, you know, many months before we can get somebody to come on and and help us out.