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Rev. Dr. Emily Gail Dill

Rev. Dr. Emily Gail Dill

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21 Mar 2024 Senate
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—hiring.
21 Mar 2024 Senate
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All right. Thank you so much. A question with regard to the performance measure on page B -217, regarding the number of complaints. The question was, Why is the actual not appli-cable and the original forecast, revised forecast and target outcome at 50 per cent? The target is to decreas e complaints by 50 per cent. This was a new …
21 Mar 2024 Senate
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More questions.
21 Mar 2024 Senate
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I do have a few.
21 Mar 2024 Senate
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Okay. Thank you very much. With regard to the STCW for staff training, it is normally undertaken during the off season winter months only. Some staff are first -time trained and then some staff are renewals. However, it is unfortunate that it cannot be accomplished during the busy s ummer season as all staff are deployed on vessels. The other …
21 Mar 2024 Senate
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There was question, Why doesn’t the mission statement include reliability? And the response is that the statement is streamlined and it is a commitment to address passenger issues to the extent that they prefer the bus service. Reliability is inherent and paramount to the success of the service. There was a question regarding whether there was an intention to purchase …
21 Mar 2024 Senate
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Okay. What I can answer with regard to the question to the $604,000 that was spent for the digital fare media was that that was for the start of the contract with the annual fee. So, in response to your question, no, that does not reflect the entirety and I will try to get an answer with regard to the …
21 Mar 2024 Senate
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The total amount of the digital fare media contract is approximately $2 million.
21 Mar 2024 Senate
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Sorry. My apologies.
21 Mar 2024 Senate
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Okay.
21 Mar 2024 Senate
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Okay.
21 Mar 2024 Senate
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In regard to the question regarding the increase in repair service costs. We talked a bit about it in the brief. The department has six facilities across the Island and in order to manage the maintenance of those facilities a facilities officer will be onboarded. Okay. With regard to the digital fare media contract, just for a bit of clarification, …
21 Mar 2024 Senate
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Madam Chairman, I know that there was one area where there was a question and they are definitely . . . they will have new hires and somehow it appears that it is not in the Budget Book. The director did respond to that. Let me find that. I will see if th at was what you were referring to.
21 Mar 2024 Senate
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Was that with regard to Registration?
21 Mar 2024 Senate
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Okay. [I have] an answer for you. The question was, How will the department manage the hiring of bus operators? There is a rolling recruitment of bus operators as this position has a high turnover which is common for the industry. So there is a rolling recruitment process. [Pause]
21 Mar 2024 Senate
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Thank you, Madam Chairman. With regard to the increase in salaries, that represents a filling of a vacant previously unbudgeted post which will not increase the FTEs. With regard to the question regarding overtime, it approximates $3.5 million spread across the entire department. It is spread across the operators, maintenance and repair services. Yes. They said there were scheduled overtime …
21 Mar 2024 Senate
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I am just doublechecking to make sure that we have the correct figures for you.
21 Mar 2024 Senate
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Mm-hmm. [Pause]
21 Mar 2024 Senate
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Yes, with regard to the question regarding the DPT overtime. The team has indicated that it is entrenched in various budgets so we will have to revert to you with an accurate answer at a later date.
21 Mar 2024 Senate
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Mm-hmm.