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Temporary vs. permanent positions for urban park rangers and PEP officers
3:17:32
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Council Member Krishnan and Commissioner Donoghue discuss the importance of baselining and expanding positions for urban park rangers and PEP officers, currently funded as temporary one-year lines.
- The council pushes to baseline and expand positions for urban park rangers and PEP officers.
- Commissioner Donoghue acknowledges the importance of these positions to the agency's operations.
- The decision to baseline or provide one-shot funding is made at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) level, not by the Parks Department.
- Council Member Krishnan emphasizes that permanent lines would be more beneficial than temporary ones.
Shekar Krishnan
3:17:32
And we spoke a bit before about the positions that are in one shot or temporary one year lines, urban park rangers for example.
3:17:41
But this is why the council pushes every year to baseline and expand the number of urban park rangers, PEP officers.
3:17:48
Do you believe that it is crucial to the operations of the department for these positions to be baselined and expanded?
3:18:20
And of course having these positions be permanent lines would be more beneficial to the agency than having them be on temporary lines, right?
Sue Donoghue
3:17:55
We are, thank you for the question.
3:17:58
We were pleased with the funding we did receive and to know now at this point that those one shots have been funded.
3:18:07
They are incredibly important to the agency and we anticipate that these positions and continuing these positions will have enormous beneficial impact for the agency.
3:18:28
The decision to baseline or do one shots is not ours.
3:18:33
That's at the O and B level.