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Equal Employment Practices Commission warns budget and staffing shortfalls limit audits

New York City Council Committee on Civil and Human Rights · March 14, 2026
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Summary

EEPC Executive Director Jimmy Pan told the committee that the commission is under-resourced to complete required audits, citing low salaries, turnover and a need for communications, legal and intergovernmental staff to implement audit findings and increase agency accountability.

Jimmy Pan, executive director of the Equal Employment Practices Commission, described constraints the small oversight body faces in auditing more than 145 city entities and in turning audits into policy and operational change.

Pan told the committee EEPC is budgeted for about 15 full-time employees and a relatively small OTPS allocation; the commission recently completed an audit cycle and reported underutilization of marginalized workers in many agencies. Pan and staff said…

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