Chair responds to Powell on budget talks and Rikers transition
Brooks-Powers thanks Powell and says she wants conversations before the budget cycle about making probation jobs more attractive. She notes DOP will be important as the city transitions from Rikers Island to borough-based jails and calls for a holistic funding conversation.
And now our top salaries for probation officers, $81,000, where that's the 11 years, whereas the parole officers walking into the door at $81,000.
These are the things that we're dealing with, right?
We might have 11 steps.
Whereas Suffolk County, Nassau County, and on the other side counties, they might have 11 or 12 steps, but what they get at the end of those 11 or 12 steps is over 100,000.
So the thing, my concern, our concern is that somebody, the city, is wasting taxpayers'money.
And throwing it away because probation is doing an excellent job in training them, but then they go on and take those skill sets and they move on to other places.
So, right.
So you asked the question of what the problem is.