Supplies, and work orders of other city services, such as department of Human Resources, Controllers Office services, and rent. We have six f. T. E. S with the Directors Office vacant since march of this year, and we have an open grant funded position that youre not seeing in this chart, just vacated last week that were working on filling quickly. We, like all City Departments were instructed to propose a 10 reduction. We proposed initial reductions amounting to 959,000 annually, and this was an across the board proposed reduction of almost 12 to our communitybased grant fees. Realizing the impact of these grant fees to the vulnerable populations and the populations these serve, the Mayors Office asked us to submit some lower alternative reduction scenarios. The Mayors Service accepted our approximately 7 reduction, which would come from the departments genderbased balance intervention program. Understanding that all of our grantees work serves vulnerable and underserved communities, t
Facing some pretty significant challenges. The first is that we do not have sufficient staffing to realize the benefits of the technology. And the best way i can describe this is i think this thinking was the technology was going to do it for us. And what we are finding is that the technology has incredible potential but it needs bodies to react to the information. So what happened when we moved to the Transportation Management center and the new radio, we were running a call centre. An emergency or incident would come in the controllers would industrial on a piece of paper the key concern, they would dispatch somebody to respond to it. Our goal was to go from a call center to a Service Management center. But a few things happened. The first thing is the call volumes increased. This is very good news. It means it is now easier with the technology for our operatorses to reach the control sent center and to be able to ask for help and support. The second thing is the time for call increa
Potential but it needs bodies to react to the information. So what happened when we moved to the Transportation Management center and the new radio, we were running a call centre. An emergency or incident would come in the controllers would industrial on a piece of paper the key concern, they would dispatch somebody to respond to it. Our goal was to go from a call center to a Service Management center. But a few things happened. The first thing is the call volumes increased. This is very good news. It means it is now easier with the technology for our operatorses to reach the control sent center and to be able to ask for help and support. The second thing is the time for call increased. We now have the ability to track all this information digitally. But the Digital Information takes more time to enter than just scribbling on a piece of paper. But our Staffing Levels for various reasons remained relatively flat. So weve taken the same number of people. They are now managing more calls
Legitimate concerns about this project. Personally i would absolutely favor looking into evening matters, metering spots that arent metered right now and speak directly to the businesses. Dont assume that the city planning model will work for these businesses speak to our friend and to her other businesses there and see what is it that you need. It may be they need a couple of pickup zones because they do a lot of delivery business. Okay. It may mean they need 30minute parking. I dont know what it is. But lets found out specifically what her business and the other affected businesses need and try to manage that. Finally, theres been some discussion about the length of the pilot. I would like to ask you to right now is there any serious downside to making this a ninemonth or 1246 month pilot. I realize 12month pilot. I realize we want to go through different life cycles, different conditions so we know that the safest is for cyclists and others but it seems to me that nine months or 12
And rh raising guidance. The next test for the tech ipo market today. As we said, oil prices are the one to watch after two oil tankers were the targets of a reported attack. The navy says it is aware of the incident and is assisting the two ships. The exact circumstances are unclear, but it could ratchet up tensions between iran and the united states. Jim, 20 of Global Consumption goes through these are straits. That area could get much hotter. Second, how little we actually oil is up a little bit. Remember, it was down 170 yesterday. I had the privilege of interviewing the dean of the the founder of pioneer. He said we will have a flare up in that area. And its not going to matter. I said when. He goes now. We are pumping so much oil. Do i take it off my screen what happens there . He said yeah. I said thats not possible. He said we are 13 million. We are going to 17 million. Anybody who needs oil, we are now the swing producer. Here we are. Maybe oil should be up more than it was do