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EEPC's staffing challenges and achievements in 2024
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Jeanne Victor details the EEPC's staffing challenges and accomplishments in 2024, highlighting the agency's productivity despite limited resources.
- The EEPC had 11 staff members in 2024, dropping to 10 in January 2025.
- Despite staffing challenges, the EEPC audited 32 city agencies and assessed 61 corrective actions in 2024.
- A symposium was held in June featuring Dr. Beverly Terulli, focusing on attracting diverse personnel to the city's workforce.
Jeanne Victor
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As an extremely small agency, staffing is very is a very important matter to the EEPC.
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It can be the difference between doing the bare minimum and making a real difference to the city.
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In 2024, we had a total of 11 staff members, and in January 2025, we actually dropped to 10.
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As we work with OMB to receive approval to fill the three headcount that were restored to the EEPC by city council and the mayor's office at the start of the fiscal year, as well as fill two staff vacancies, one which is a part time executive agency council, we will finally be approaching a more work workable staffing level.
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Despite the staffing challenges in 2024, it was a very busy year.
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The EEPC audited 32 city agencies and assessed a 61 corrective actions.
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In June, the EEPC held a symposium featuring featuring doctor Beverly Terulli, clinical assistant professor at New York University, which focused on how the city can better attract diverse personnel to join its workforce.
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Doctor Terulli highlighted the importance of understanding what motivates people to apply for positions in city government and how to appeal to those motivations throughout the employee life cycle.
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She suggested we choose a specific area of the employee life cycle, whether it is in attracting, recruiting, onboarding, developing, retaining, and separating employees and alumni, that if we act on it, will yield the best outcome as one way to attract and retain diverse talent.