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to getting more enforcement is not only getting smarter enforcement but is budgeting for more staff, and really, that is a key limitation on enforcement is the amount of staffing that we have, and the limits that that places on us. president o'brien: this legislation will not increase staff or -- >> no. >> i would just add that your point is really well taken, and we really think in our office that they do a fantastic job with very limited resources, and we believe that the agency is incredibly understaffed, so we believe as a city family that we need to be investing more resources i...

bore you with my same face twice, but my colleague was passing out some of the information packets we have for you all about our campaign, because this legislation is just one piece of a larger campaign. several other groups are part of this, and they launched in may of this year, it is a campaign to say that we staff in this country has reached a crisis level, and at a time when we all know the recession is hurting us. it is hurting businesses. it is hurting workers. it is hurting communities. we need to end this for the entire community. we create a certain of stimulus that no gove...

way that recognizes the there is this new poll. i think the program is working -- this loophole. i think the program is working. i cannot tell you how many times i went to meetings where this comes up. we are a model, but there aren't weeks that need to happen, and -- there are wheat -- tweaks that need to happen. we are trying to live up to the original intent of this legislation. it is not perfect, but i think it is something we have been proud of, and now it is just a matter of trying to make it better. >> i am sure we all feel the stories of abuse are pretty horrifying, and these...

that places on us. president o'brien: this legislation will not increase staff or -- >> no. >> i would just add that your point is really well taken, and we really think in our office that they do a fantastic job with very limited resources, and we believe that the agency is incredibly understaffed, so we believe as a city family that we need to be investing more resources in this agency. supervisor campos has inquired of the director what happened to the vacant positions that the supervisors fought hard for in the budget, and ms. levin has been unable to hire those positions because...

cultural, and we do our own outreach also. >> are you planning to work with the department of public health on an enforcement campaign? is that something that is in discussion right now? >> we already collaborate with the department of public health, and we look forward to strengthening that collaboration, yes. commissioner clyde: ok, so that is something -- >> we have talked about, for instance, there are restaurants inspectors to do restaurants -- restaurant inspections, and as part of those inspections, they have done a pilot project investigating the minimum wage notice, and that...