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AGENCY TESTIMONY
Staffing and retention issues due to low salaries
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Commissioner Strauber highlights the challenges DOI faces in retaining staff due to disproportionately low salaries and limited growth opportunities compared to other entities.
- DOI has lost staff at all levels to private, state, and federal entities
- Current city hiring and promotion practices limit opportunities for growth within DOI
- An example is provided of difficulty filling a deputy agency chief contracting officer position due to salary constraints
- These issues put DOI at further risk of losing critical staff
Jocelyn E. Strauber
0:19:46
DOI has lost staff at all levels to private, state, and federal entities due to the disproportionately low salaries we offer and the lack of growth opportunities permitted by the city's current hiring and promotion practices which put us at further risk of losing critical staff.
0:20:02
For example, DOI's deputy agency chief contracting officer or DACCO left the agency in September of twenty twenty three and despite several rounds of recruitment and offers to candidates, we have been unable to fill the position because the current OMB hiring policies require us to offer a salary that is materially lower than DACA salaries offered by similarly sized city agencies.
0:20:26
DOI's current OTPS budget primarily pays the rent for our office space and the expenses of our monitorships, which as you know are paid to outside monitoring firms not to DOI staff.