The Municipal Service and Property Committee considered legislation (821-2025) to outsource the city's vehicle fleet parts management to a third-party vendor. Council members raised concerns about the impact on union employees, the lack of prior consultation with labor representatives, and the optics of outsourcing city work. After discussion, the committee voted to hold the legislation pending formal input from the affected unions.
And they are having parts. Where would those um employees, how would they be affected by this third party when they're coming in and losing the office of two chairs? They would not be affected. Their roles might change a little bit, but as far as what the day operation would be, but they would still be involved with the parts of distribution and management of those parts. Okay. And director, so the uh the our urban AI has uh done some process acting with other departments to kind of help them do their processes uh and try to find uh better ways to work more efficiently. Have you worked with uh the urban AI department any kind of way to to uh kind of talk about this whole process or get any help with this process? So uh to the chair now with everybody as we work with them on the other projects, um, but because of the extent, um the amount of time that we dealt with this and the at least the current experience that we had, um we we just find this at the right time to necessity would know we have not been currently specifically on this project. Okay, all right, director, also can you talk about can you get a little bit more specific on the cost that it would have to the city uh any kind of cost more forward or more annual basis? Any kind of savings that we with the processing on this project uh to the chair. We would be able to really look at those services based on it after we go to our PR, but with the cost savings is going to come into the the management of costly capacity parts. That is gonna be huge. Uh just we have no outlet to get rid of house and cost other than to just oxen. And by the time we have the terminal process, they they almost have no line. And just so the whole management of the the parts and time, what's coming in and what's going out is really this is key, plus the fact of getting you know the qualified technicians back out to the door in making those labor hours uh uh reduced our increase of efficiency over here right now. Okay. All right, we'll go to council. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman to uh to the director of commissioner um a little bit by this piece of legislation uh in your own admittance in your presentation uh in slide two. Um you indicated that there's 15 people by landing up right 15 people who are um in charge of doing the jobs that we want to outsource. Um then you tell us that um we're gonna outsource this, but that nobody's gonna lose their jobs, um, although we're replacing 15 jobs. Um so either one or two things is going on. Um either um we have the option of not believing that somebody's not gonna lose their job, or you're admitting that for the last 20 years or so you have not been running an efficient shop um over there, right? And I don't want to believe the second part because I overnight seen everything. Um but something doesn't add up for those with this with this legislation, right? It looks like we're trying to outsource something that we've been doing, but that nobody's gonna lose a job, right? We're not here um I believe to uh be in the role of passing legislation to put people out. Right? So either something has not been functioning over there as effective as it should be, or people are gonna lose their job. Absolutely. No, that to the chair to the council and that is a fairly concerned, and that's why we're gonna make sure they're in the layouts. Again, one of the things I mentioned is we have four or so mechanics that are doing no booty. In fact, you know, when I get to the finance system, there's an end that I would see hundreds of times, which is actually the candidate. But these processing inputs. As opposed to being that one for, you know, so we've got like four still candidates that are going to go through. That's one thing. Also, to your point, yes, we're not at the level that we should be in that way. A piece like this will help us actually better be here and be more efficient. So no, there won't be any layoffs because uh again, that one post the window in our business throughout our happens. So we're trying to get to a place no different than how we have tractors and make the properties because we have a we have a blind spot. Again, we talk about Austin Pless, you know, say good as your parts, those kind of things. We are really behind the law. Sometimes when we come here and actual vehicle acquisition is not a part of this, because you all know that sometimes we tell you there's probably a uh you know two-year lead time to do it um uh vehicles. We'll say we have the parts, and if you're not gonna count on the park to be able to make those um um acquisitions quickly, then you're buying equals. So this is not about laying folks off. If we're up to the I'd like to have more folks, I still have enough, but we have to do what we have to work what we have. But in this case, this contract is really going to act and it's what we do. And then Mr.