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Examination of DFTA staffing levels and vacancies
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Council Member Crystal Hudson questions DFTA about current staffing levels, vacancies, and efforts to fill open positions. Commissioner Lorraine Cortés-Vázquez discusses the agency's staffing situation and ongoing conversations with the Office of Management and Budget.
- DFTA reports 28 current vacancies across various departments
- Positions include community associates and program associates
- The agency is actively working to fill vacancies
- Discussions with OMB focus on appropriate staffing ratios for program monitoring
Crystal Hudson
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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Alright.
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The preliminary plan includes three twenty eight budgeted positions in your agency for fiscal twenty twenty five dropping to three twenty four positions in fiscal twenty twenty six and in the out years.
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As of January 2025, '3 zero '7 positions were filled at NYC Aging leaving 21 vacancies.
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What positions are currently vacant and which programs and areas are the positions in?
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You have 28 vacancies?
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Can you give me like the sort of programs or areas or divisions?
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All right.
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Jose are you hiring actively?
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Okay.
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Does the agency have adequate headcount to effectively operate all the programs and initiatives?
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Do you have headcount to effectively operate all the programs and initiatives?
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Okay.
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Sorry.
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I don't want to put words in your mouth, but it sounds like a no.
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have right away.
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You're having a lot of conversations.
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How are you actively working to fill these vacancies is perhaps a better question.
Lorraine Cortés-Vázquez
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I have that here.
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Thank you.
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So we have 28 vacancies.
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We have 28 vacancies.
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Eight are under review.
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What's the question?
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The kind of positions?
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Yeah.
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Runs the gamut across the agency.
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Most of them are in Jose's shop.
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And there's some that are, most of them are in the, the balance of them are in the program service areas.
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Mental health, program officers under, you know for the Bureau of Community Programs.
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So they all have titles like community associate, what's the highest title?
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Community associate, program associate, that's the category.
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is a conversation that we have with OMB on a regular basis because of the number of program officers assigned per program.
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So we're in conversations with OMB about that.
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It's a conversation that we
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Yes, we do.
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It's a regular booming relationship.
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Okay.
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You know what, we talk to them about the ratio of program officer to program in terms of monitoring.
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We use other agencies as a model.
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Those are the We look at other agency ratios that do comparable work.
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And those are the levels of conversation that we have.
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We also have conversations with them on the vacancy rate, you know, and the impact of the two per one allocation, you know, that we have with the city.
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So for us when you are an agency this small it would take us 36 vacancies to fill x number of positions.
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You know, it's like the two for one.
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So those are the kind of conversations that we're constantly having.
Jose Mercado
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Yes I am.
Darlene Mealy
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Say that again.
Barbara Baer
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Sorry.
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It