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Commissioner explains complexity of basement legalization process and staffing needs
3:57:28
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102 sec
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.