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Commissioner highlights need for support staff and DOB Now updates
3:54:58
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Commissioner Oddo emphasizes the importance of allocating support staff and updating the DOB Now platform to accommodate new initiatives and local laws. He stresses the need for a comprehensive approach to staffing and funding.
- Historically, the agency has received inspectorial and enforcement staff but lacked necessary support staff
- Every new initiative, law change, or rule has implications for the DOB Now platform
- The commissioner calls for better articulation of funding needs to partners in the council, City Hall, and OMB
James "Jimmy" S. Oddo
3:54:58
Chair, if I could just add that I think historically speaking, when it comes to new needs, this agency's be given been given inspectorial and enforcement staff, but has have not received the sort of requisite support staff to carry out the additional work.
3:55:18
So all, you know, the inspectorial and the enforcement team does its work.
3:55:22
But then downstream of that, there's a whole bunch of work that has to happen, payroll, etcetera, etcetera.
3:55:27
I think we as an agency need to do a better job in ensuring when there's a new initiative that the staffing cuts across the agency because that's where the work is.
3:55:38
And also, I think it's critically important and we've kind of learned this lesson the hard way in the last couple of years.
3:55:45
Anything, whether it is an act of the city council, whether it is a city hall initiative, whether it's a DOB initiative, any a rule change.
3:55:55
Anything and everything has a DOB now implication.
3:55:59
It has to be operationalized.
3:56:01
And to date, all of these new initiatives have been passed with no additional funding for DOB Now and that puts us in a in a unique position.
3:56:10
So I think moving forward whenever we have a local law, we're gonna experience this I guess tomorrow and in the coming weeks with the the shed, the city hall priority, the city council priority.
3:56:23
We have to always think of the staffing that comes with it.
3:56:26
The staffing is not only the sort of front line and the field staff, but the support staff.
3:56:31
And also there is, because we have to operationalize this on our platform, DOB now is a living sort of breathing expanding thing.
3:56:40
We have to have funding and we need to do a better job of articulating that to our partners in the council at City Hall and OMB.