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OCC director warns budget cuts threaten oversight work; calls for small IT fixes and staffing enhancements
Summary
Office of Citizen Complaints director Joyce Hicks told the commission the OCC operates on a $4.3 million baseline and faces mandated 5% cuts and FTE reductions; she said the office still needs modest IT investments (online complaint filing, automated tickler) and roughly $1 million in enhancements to meet audit-recommended staffing levels.
Joyce Hicks, director of the Office of Citizen Complaints (OCC), told the Police Commission on Jan. 11 that the agency's baseline budget is $4.3 million, with personnel costs representing about $3.8 million and 34.75 full-time-equivalent positions.
"Personnel costs for the OCC comprise 89% of our budget," Hicks said, outlining mayoral budget instructions that require a 5 percent reduction of general-fund support per budget year and a 1 percent-per-year full-time-equivalent reduction over five years. She told the commission that, after charter-mandated staffing is backed out, OCC targets still create pressure and that some controller audit recommendations remain unfunded.
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