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Discussion of DOI's current budget and staffing levels
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Council Member Brewer inquires about the Department of Investigation's current budget and staffing levels, and Commissioner Strauber provides detailed information on headcount and budget trends.
- DOI's budgeted headcount for FY2025 is 310, down from 408 in FY2020
- Current active headcount is 294, with an additional 37 on-loan employees
- DOI has requested 23 additional personnel, with 10 positions approved so far
Gale Brewer
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So I just don't wanna understand about, your budget because, I don't know, was some like huge larger number in the past.
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So can you just reiterate what it is now?
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Because I have there's a number for what you have of staff, and then there's a number for the additional from intra agency.
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Right?
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And then there's sort of the need that you have for the future, because I know you wanna do some more proactive investigations.
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I think you've said that in the past.
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So both staff wise and budget wise, can you just give us some indication as to what you have now and what you would like in the future?
Jocelyn E. Strauber
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Sure.
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So just to sort of set this in context, we have our our budgeted headcount, which is currently 310.
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That's for fiscal year twenty twenty five.
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And just for context, it's been steadily going down since fiscal year twenty when it was 408.
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Now that that budgeted headcount does not include what we refer to as on loan employees.
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Those are employees whose salaries are paid by their home agencies, but who work at DOI, support our investigations, report up, you know, through our chain.
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For for those figures, I wanna give you current active headcount.
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So our DOI only active headcount is 02/1957.
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It was 03/1968 fiscal year '20.
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And our on loan headcount, which provides significant support for our operations, is a 37.
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It was a 80 in fiscal year twenty.
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So that gives us a total active headcount of $3.94 for fiscal year twenty five.
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And our ask has been an additional in addition to, you know, other funding issues, but headcount specifically, our ask has been for 23 additional personnel.
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10 we received 10 of those.
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We continue to ask for the other 13.