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Commissioner explains complexity of basement legalization process and staffing needs
3:57:28
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Commissioner Oddo elaborates on the complex, long-term process of basement legalization and the potential staffing needs that may arise. He emphasizes the uncertainty in predicting future resource requirements.
- A flowchart illustrates the 10-year process for basement legalization with various milestones
- The commissioner highlights the difficulty in predicting staffing needs as the process unfolds
- Oddo stresses that DOB is both an economic development and public safety agency, requiring adequate resources
James "Jimmy" S. Oddo
3:57:28
Well, from City of Yes from housing 38 from the if you want to divide it to the ADUs and and basement legalization 40 And and can I just say maybe just to perhaps bolster your own point, but when I and when I say we don't know what's gonna materialize when in terms of the staffing, deputy commissioner Sarakis did this flowchart for me?
3:57:57
And I will get this
Gabriela Sandoval Requena
3:57:58
I like flowcharts.
James "Jimmy" S. Oddo
3:57:59
This is basically our internal process that we think to date on what needs to happen on the basement legalization.
3:58:10
Authorize the application review, maintenance, and it's a ten year process.
3:58:14
We have milestones on this one, three months, one year, two years, five years, seven years, ten years.
3:58:21
So who navigates this and when?
3:58:26
If they navigate this quickly, you know, will the demands be such that we need more more staff for this for this particular part of this whole so, yeah.
3:58:37
I mean you will not I I think last year we established a precedent for me.
3:58:43
I'm not gonna be shy.
3:58:44
I'm not gonna be a commissioner.
3:58:45
I can't look these men and women in the eye and say we have we have enough.
3:58:49
We are an economic development and a public safety agency.
3:58:52
The more resourced we are, the better it is for economic development and public safety.
Gale A. Brewer
3:58:55
Right.
James "Jimmy" S. Oddo
3:58:56
For now, this these are the numbers.
3:58:58
We're gonna see what comes down the pike in terms of work and get on that red phone to OMB and City Hall if we see the volume manifesting as such.
Pierina Sanchez
3:59:10
Right.