Aldebol asks witnesses what legislative solutions could help retention

Thank you very much for your testimony today.

I have so many questions, but I feel like I can't ask them all today.

But I think we do need to continue our conversations and discussions.

I think I'll ask the same question that I asked the last time when it came to recruitment.

What legislative solutions can the city council

employ to make these improvements happen, whether it's data, creating a dashboard, mandating the creation of these dashboards?

Do you have any ideas?

Either one of you can answer.

I'll just, I can go quickly.

I think it's from the testimony that we heard today, it seems like a lot of these retention measures are really at the discretion of agencies, which I understand.

And every agency has to kind of run its own way.

So I do think that data is a place where if we had more centralized information, like there were many stats that you all asked for from DCAS that they weren't able to provide right now, or maybe they don't have access to because the agencies are holding that data.

And so I hate to ask for like collect more data, publish another report.

I want to make sure that there's a good feedback loop.

But I do think that if we knew like all these.

questions about where are the retention issues the worst?

Where are you seeing people leave?

Are there managers, are there agencies, are there jobs where you're seeing people leaving so early and we're having to pay every single year to recruit and train new people and then they're leaving?

I think that would, we would see that pay for itself.

The work to compile that data would allow us to make better decisions across the city.

So I think that's a place to start.

It's certainly not a place to finish, but I think that could be a good starting point.