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Public Works reports hiring gains but hiring freeze clouds vacancy figures
Summary
Human Resources Director Karen Hill told commissioners Public Works exceeded its hiring goal for FY 2023–24, promoted staff internally and is preparing for retirements; a mayoral hiring freeze issued Jan. 9 made current vacancy rates unavailable and complicates planning.
Karen Hill, Director of Human Resources for Public Works, presented an informational update on recruitment, retention, attrition and retirement eligibility at the Feb. 27 Public Works Commission meeting.
Hill said the department exceeded its FY 2023–24 hiring goal to fill 350 positions, reporting 495 positions filled by June 30, 2024, with an additional 66 hires from July 1 to Dec. 31, 2024. Between July 1, 2023 and June 30, 2024 Public Works promoted 169 internal staff; from July 1 to Dec. 31, 2024 another 83 promotions occurred, for a total of 252 promotions reported across the period Hill presented.
Hill said the department ran two mass hiring events that produced 25 junior…
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