Chair Schulman on public health engineer vacancy and environmental sciences staffing
Schulman questions a July 22 vacancy posting for a public health engineering consultant and asks how many staff are dedicated to Legionnaires prevention. Martin says they have public health engineers on staff and the majority of the environmental sciences division works on this issue.
During previous Legionnaires disease outbreaks, DOHMH has had a head public health engineer on staff to help with the agency's response.
However, on July 22nd, DOHMH posted a vacancy for a public health engineering consultant in the Bureau of Environmental Sciences and Engineering.
When did DOHMH last have a public health engineer consultant on staff, and how long has the position been vacant?
We have public health engineers on staff.
That posting might have...
You do?
Yes.
So what was the posting for?
I'll have to let...
We have other positions.
Okay.
That we are hiring for.
How many staff with the Environmental Sciences and Engineering Bureau are currently dedicated to Legionnaires disease prevention, including tower inspection, plan review, and related enforcement?
I mean, it's probably the whole, it's the majority of the people that are in that division.
We can get you specific numbers in a more detailed way, but that is the full brunt of what that team is aiming to do.
Okay.
There are other questions, but we'll do this.
We'll send them to you.
You'll send us back an answer.