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Commissioner Oddo outlines initiatives to address DOB staffing challenges
4:24:43
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Commissioner James Oddo describes several initiatives aimed at addressing the Department of Buildings' staffing challenges. He focuses on programs to retain and develop staff, as well as attract new talent.
- Mentions a pilot program with DCAS to provide design experience for non-licensed staff
- Discusses the potential use of technology to expand staffing capabilities in plan examination and inspectorial routing
- Hints at an upcoming initiative to improve the pipeline for drawing more people into DOB
James "Jimmy" S. Oddo
4:24:43
Madam chair, if I could just add three quick things.
4:24:46
One is a shout out to DKS commissioner Lou Molina because one of the challenges that we have is that our assistant plan examiners, assistant engineers, assistant architects, the the non licensed folks.
4:25:01
Our work does not qualify as design experience which the state ed says they need to get licensed.
4:25:08
So they we will train them up then they will leave us to go to an agency whose work does provide that.
4:25:16
They wanna progress in their career.
4:25:18
So what what commissioner Molin is gonna do on a on a small bay small sample pilot is take some of our folks at DOB, loan them to DCAS, let them do work at DCAS that qualifies as design experience, get that for their qualification so that they can get license to come back.
4:25:39
Deputy Commissioner Sonabria will tell you a bunch of the people who left, there's a 10 or 13 or 15 came back because it's a pretty good place to work, but they can't progress in their career.
4:25:50
So hopefully this is a start of a good program.
4:25:53
Second thing I just wanted to mention is on the plan exam front and the inspectorial routing.
4:26:01
We think there's technology out there that could help us.
4:26:04
And hopefully that expands sort of our staffing capabilities.
Ahmed Tigani
4:26:17
Sorry about that.
James "Jimmy" S. Oddo
4:26:17
No.
4:26:17
And this is the last thing is hopefully in May when we come back, we're working on an idea on the front end of this, the pipeline to draw more people in.
4:26:27
Hopefully, our idea will be a little bit more baked and we can present it with you where we think we can draw in more folks to DOB.