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CAO reports 12% civilian vacancy rate citywide; committee expedites hiring for wildfire response
Summary
The City Administrative Officer presented an update on the Prioritized Critical Hiring (PCH) process showing roughly 3,200 hire requests since implementation and a civilian vacancy rate around 12 percent; the committee agreed to expedite wildfire-related position requests and voted to receive and file the report.
The City Administrative Officer (CAO) reported to the Budget and Finance Committee that since the city's Prioritized Critical Hiring (PCH) process began, departments submitted roughly 3,200 requests to hire, and the civilian vacancy rate across city departments is approximately 12 percent.
CAO representative Melissa Velasco told the committee the PCH process has handled thousands of requests since implementation and that the Office of Public Accountability was an outlier…
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