Gennaro asks about filling 69 new BCR positions

Has the Bureau filled its 69 new lines?

If not, how many of those positions are filled to date?

No, we haven't filled all 69 yet.

I believe that we have already started hiring some of the apprentice laborers and getting them onboarded and are continuing to aggressively work on that hiring process.

Yeah, let's talk about these lines.

These are for...

People in the field doing labor stuff?

Many of them are, but I mean, there are a lot of different types of jobs that will be involved in that.

You're going to have planning and engineers as well.

But I think, you know, a good opportunity for people to do and become apprentice laborers that then turn into laborers and are able to move, you know, up in the system through that experience.

But, yeah, you'll have all types of levels.

I think right now what we are trying to make sure is that we've got enough people to be able to operate.

Gates, as they come online, and they're coming online, you know, more and more quickly in the next year.

Okay, and so what's like the timeline for the...

Filling of the new lines, do you think?

Yeah, I think they're trying to fill everything by next year.

Next year meaning the beginning of next year, the end of next year, or, you know?

Literally as soon as possible.

It's a full...

I know.

It didn't help me, though.

I don't know that we've gotten exact.

Does anyone be giving you a hard time?

OMB would never give us a hard time.

I don't know what you're talking about.

No, it's not that.

I think you're just looking at the sheer volume of trying to hire that many people all at once and trying to get through that.

So you're going from...

A bureau of six people to 75.

So, you know, we're moving as fast as humanly possible.

Okay.

Like, do you have a place for them?

I mean, you guys are in the regular left rack, right?

I mean, we've got facilities all over the city.

Yeah, you guys are all over.

Okay.

All right.