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TLC vacancy rates and ongoing hiring efforts
4:28:23
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Council Member Brooks-Powers inquires about TLC's 29% vacancy rate. Commissioner Do explains the reasons for the high vacancy rate and outlines the agency's hiring plans.
- The high vacancy rate is due to the addition of 100 new positions last year
- TLC has exhausted the civil service list after hiring 16 new officers
- The agency has 434 applicants for the remaining positions
- These public safety positions are not subject to the usual hiring restrictions
- TLC is actively working to decrease its vacancy rate by filling these positions
Selvena N. Brooks-Powers
4:28:23
Commissioner, in terms of vacancy at the commission, right now you have 20 a 29% vacancy rate which is about one third of the agency.
4:28:32
Do you feel that you have sufficient staffing?
David Do
4:28:35
Yeah.
4:28:37
Why there is a 28% vacancy is because the mayor helped the TLC add 100 new heads in the last year.
4:28:45
And so what that that meant is that because we receive more lines for hiring and we were only able to hire 16 because we have exhausted that civil service list.
4:28:59
That is why our vacancy rate is a little bit higher than some others.
4:29:04
But as a small agency, that's also impactful.
4:29:07
Any vacancy will increase that vacancy by a lot more.
4:29:12
But we are on track to hiring.
4:29:14
We have four thirty four applicants.
4:29:17
Because these are public safety rules, they're not subject to the two for one, and so we are we have the green light, to hire these public safety positions and decrease our vacancy rate.