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Hiring challenges and allocation of new positions at DOI
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Council Member Brewer and Commissioner Strauber discuss the challenges in hiring for new positions and how DOI plans to allocate these positions to areas of greatest need.
- DOI is not dealing with the two-for-one policy for the 10 new positions
- Additional funding is needed for vacant positions that are not fully funded
- New positions will be allocated to areas such as e-discovery management, forensic analysis, auditing, and technology support
Gale Brewer
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And of the 10, have you been able to hire?
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Are you still dealing with the two for one and the salary issues, etcetera?
Jocelyn E. Strauber
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So for those, we are not dealing with the two for one.
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So those are all posted, and we are actively recruiting for them.
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But we do not we have not filled those positions yet.
Gale Brewer
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Okay.
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Alright.
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That's helpful.
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In terms of budget, so I think obviously the budget would mirror what the challenge are in terms of staffing.
Jocelyn E. Strauber
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Yes.
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And and I I also wanna be clear that one of our asks is for additional funding for vacant positions that are not fully funded.
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And I can get you that number, but I just wanna be clear that we have positions that where we have the headcount, but because the salaries are so low, we have sometimes had to borrow from certain vacant positions in order to provide competitive salaries in in in for positions we're hiring for.
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And so that means there is additional funding that we need to be able to hire our vacant positions in addition to these additional 10 headcount.
Gale Brewer
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Thank you.
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And for just for the record, for the last two years as chair of this committee, I've advocated for funding for your department, and the office of management and budget has refused.
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I just wanna make clear that it's been
Jocelyn E. Strauber
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very And we appreciate that that support
Gale Brewer
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very much.
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Frustrating.
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Very, very frustrating.
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Hope that this changes this year.
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So in terms of the 10 that you have, needing 13 more, positions help your investigations when they're fully funded and fully in place?
Jocelyn E. Strauber
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So for those 10, we've picked the areas of greatest need.
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So for example, we manage through, you know, search warrants and seizures of electronic devices in criminal cases.
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We have an enormous amount of material to go through that has to be processed.
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We have had one e discovery manager managing sort of the vast bulk of this.
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So that's a position that we've posted for.
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We also do other forensic analysis of electronic devices and so we're seeking to headcount for that.
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Auditing obviously is critical to the financial fraud investigations that we do.
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We're seeking to hire an additional auditor.
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For additional investigators as I mentioned, obviously we could we could use many more but that's that's how we allocated a portion of the 10 new headcount.
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And then we also need more technology support, and so we allocated two headcount to that position.
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So that is how we will use those 10.
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That's what we've posted for.
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So it's fair to say right now those are our areas of greatest need.