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Addressing city-wide vacancy issues and hiring challenges
4:01:22
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Council Member Gale A. Brewer inquires about ongoing vacancy issues across city agencies. Comptroller Brad Lander discusses the tools and processes in place to monitor and address these vacancies.
- Lander mentions a dashboard created to track agency headcounts in real-time
- The Comptroller's office periodically examines mismatches between MMR (Mayor's Management Report) indicators and actual headcount
- Lander suggests that OMB (Office of Management and Budget) doesn't seem to have a process for analyzing the impact of slow-rolled hiring on city costs
- The discussion touches on the relationship between vacancies and increased overtime costs
Gale A. Brewer
4:01:22
Yeah.
4:01:23
Thank you.
4:01:23
The other quick question is just in terms of vacancies.
4:01:27
I know that we're ongoing.
4:01:29
I think what you should say is we should just look at your data in terms of where all the how we can address the vacancy issues.
4:01:35
It's two for one.
4:01:36
It's can't hire.
4:01:37
It's it's a whole lot of different things.
4:01:39
Is there any one aspect of that that you would think we should be focused on in terms of the number of vacancies?
4:01:45
It's going down, but it still exists.
Brad Lander
4:01:47
Yeah.
4:01:49
So we did, you know, create that dashboard so you could see And then we periodically try to take a look at where we think an MMR there's a mismatch between an MMR indicator and headcount.
4:02:01
And it doesn't look to me like there is a process by which OMB does that.
Gale A. Brewer
4:02:06
A program
Brad Lander
4:02:07
and You can say, by forcing us to slow roll hiring here, you're costing us more money because those housing units are vacant and the families are still in the homeless shelters, but that does not seem to be And
Gale A. Brewer
4:02:23
also you looked at overtime.
4:02:25
Do you have any recommendations on that for next year?