Morano asks whether commissioners are held accountable for retention
Morano asks whether agency commissioners are evaluated on retention rates and whether DCAS would support publishing agency retention rates with corrective action plans; Porter says she cannot speak to evaluations but is open to the discussion.
Your testimony also talks extensively about management training, leadership, development, and improving workplace culture, and I think those things are all great.
But I have a more fundamental question.
Does the city evaluate agency commissioners and senior managers based on their employee retention rates?
If an agency is consistently losing experienced employees at a rate much higher than comparable agencies, is that reflected in the commissioner's performance evaluation?
I guess the question I'm asking is, is anybody held accountable?
Because in the private sector, if a manager keeps losing good employees, eventually someone starts asking questions about the manager.
Is city government doing the same thing?
So that's not something that I'm able to speak to here.
What I can say is that DCAS, the agency, we're committed to supporting agencies and meeting their hiring needs through examinations, through professional development,
and in any way that we can.
Especially if an agency comes to us with a problem, a workforce problem, we're here to help them strategize and develop programs and opportunities to address their needs.
Do you think DCAS would support publishing retention rates for every agency and requiring agencies with unusually high turnover to develop corrective action plans?
So I think it's something that we can consider.
You know, I wouldn't say here one way or another, but, you know, we would be open to the discussion.