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Workforce development program for green infrastructure maintenance
1:11:09
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Deputy Commissioner Licata outlines a new workforce development program aimed at maintaining green infrastructure assets while providing job opportunities and skills development. This program involves collaboration with private entities and focuses on creating a pipeline for city employment.
- A newly funded program will privatize maintenance of about 1,000 green infrastructure assets to the Dove Fund
- The program aims to train and recruit staff who could potentially move into city employment
- Many jobs in the green infrastructure program are entry-level positions that build valuable life skills
- Seasonal employees who perform well are often offered permanent positions within the department
Angela Licata
1:11:09
We also have a program that was just funded that is a workforce development program whereby we will be privatizing some of the green infrastructure assets, about a thousand of them, to the Dove Fund, and they will help us not only to train, but also to recruit staff that could then move into the city's pipeline.
1:11:34
Because a lot of the jobs that we have under the green infrastructure program are in fact entry level jobs, and they do build life skills for those employees.
1:11:43
And when they're seasonal employees, if they're good workers, we tend to offer them a permanent job as well.
1:12:10
I started my career at OMB as well.
James F. Gennaro
1:11:50
Great.
1:11:51
I I I I remember OMB fondly.
1:11:56
I started my I worked at OMB from 1983 to '85.
1:12:04
And so I think a lot of my colleagues are retired.
1:12:07
But if you need oh, you work for OMB as well?
1:12:12
Oh, yeah.
1:12:13
So I was gonna say if you need anything from them, mention my name, but you should mention your own name because they don't know who I am anymore.