Brief

Councilmember Tim Moscosker, seconded by Katy Yaroslavsky, introduced a motion directing the Personnel Department to compile and report on the City's current workforce and hiring status, including information on expedited employee transfers and workforce metrics by department. The Personnel and Hiring Committee approved the motion on September 9, 2026. The motion now awaits referral to Council for final adoption.

Full summary

Councilmember Tim McOsker introduced this motion on August 28, 2026, directing the City Administrative Officer, in coordination with the Personnel Department, to deliver monthly workforce reports to the Council. The motion frames ongoing fiscal constraints, workforce changes, and evolving service demands as reasons the Council needs consistent, comprehensive personnel data to identify emerging staffing challenges and measure progress over time. The required monthly reports would cover five areas: vacancies (authorized positions, filled positions, vacancy rates, and how long positions have gone unfilled, broken down by department and civil service classification); hiring activity (recruitments underway, eligible lists, referrals, conditional offers, appointments, progress toward Targeted Local Hire and Bridge-to-Jobs targets, and hard-to-fill positions); attrition rates (resignations, retirements, transfers, promotions, and other separations, with departmental and classification-level trends); transfers and reassignments (interdepartmental transfers and other mechanisms for placing existing employees into vacant or funded positions, including specific outcomes from the FY 2025-26 Expedited Transfer Process established under Council File 25-0660); and workforce retention efforts (incentives, strategies for hard-to-fill classifications, succession planning, and workforce development). The motion explicitly builds on two prior Council Files. In FY 2023-24, Council File 23-1429 produced a citywide vacancy assessment. In FY 2025-26, Council File 25-0660 established the Expedited Transfer Process and Portal, which allows the City to move existing employees into open positions more quickly than standard hiring procedures, with reports tracking applications, referrals, and completed transfers. This motion aims to consolidate and standardize those reporting streams into a durable, ongoing set of metrics the Council can track year over year. The Personnel and Hiring Committee scheduled the item on September 4 and approved it at its September 9, 2026 meeting. The motion now moves to the full Council for a vote. With an expiration date of September 2028, there is substantial time for Council adoption and for the monthly reporting cadence to be established.

Activity (3)

• 2026-09-09 Personnel and Hiring Committee approved item(s) .
• 2026-09-04 Personnel and Hiring Committee scheduled item for committee meeting on September 9, 2026.
• 2026-08-28 Motion referred to Personnel and Hiring Committee.

Documents (3)

• 2026-09-09 Communication from Chair, Personnel and Hiring Committee · other
• 2026-09-09 Speaker Card(s) · speaker_card
• 2026-08-28 Motion · motion