Aldebol asks how OLR flags titles for equity funding
Aldebol asks how OLR and the administration identify titles for equity funding; Pollack says it draws on retention and recruitment data, agency conversations, and union negotiations, citing dozens of DC 37 titles plus probation officers and school safety agents.
Mr.
Pollack, you mentioned in your testimony today that you, in the last round of bargaining, you used an equity funding concept to target specific titles,
particularly concerning recruitment and retention challenges.
How does OLR and the administration flag titles to target with the equity funding concepts that you mentioned in your testimony?
Is this based on recruitment and retention data, or is this also a conversation?
With unions and other labor partners on their perspective on titles that need attention outside of pattern bargaining?
Thank you, Chair, for that question.
It's not just one thing, it's many things.
So it is, you know, we do look at data, retention data, recruitment info, we talk to the agencies, and we of course talk to unions across the bargaining table, you know, in the last round.
Engage with a union and there'd be kind of the question of, you know, is this a union that has a title or titles where this is warranted, this equity fund kind of concept.
And, you know, it's a discussion we would have and we'd eventually, you know, reach an agreement that either did not include it.
If we agreed there was an issue that
where it was warranted, we would include it.
And it's something that we do with a lot of different unions.
Probably DC 37.
We addressed, I would say, you know, dozens of titles through that process with DC 37, but other unions also had their probation officers.
It helped facilitate their new salary schedule.
Special officers and school safety agents that change their salary schedule from seven steps to five steps.
We really used it all over.