All,
At yesterday’s NCEPT panel, we revisited a few outstanding items for improving the process and finally reached agreement to make the following changes. Here's a quick synopsis:
1. Cat 1 and Cat 2 exempt - up to now, no releases were allowed that would drop the facility’s current or projected CPC/target ratio below the national average. This resulted in what were termed “Cat 1 or Cat 2 exempt” facilities - where the percentages were above the thresholds, but not movement could occur. We have agreed to allow movement of personnel where a facility could dip slightly below that floor. While we were initially looking at those facilities where the CPC target was at or below 15, we are moving to apply this to all facilities. Functionally, the number that can be released would be gleaned from Column Y of the PPT. So if a facility is showing a negative number in that column, they could release someone (or several). This number would be rounded up to the nearest integer and that would be how many could be released. For instance, if facility ABC was showing -.3 in Column Y, they would be able to release 1 person. If facility XYZ was showing -3.8, they could release 4. This should result in more movement in the system, and mitigate the number of facilities where there are too many on-board to receive new personnel, but too short to release anyone
2. Staffing level 9 and below up to 100% projected - we have decided to adopt the process where the NCEPT will considered additional movements between “green” facilities at the conclusion of the NCEPT round so as to try to staff level 9 and below facilities up to 100% projected CPC/target. We have been doing this for level 7 and belows, and level 9 and belows on a trial basis. Beginning in June, this will become part of the process. Ideally, this will help get more personnel into the mid-level facilities and thus promote additional upward mobility.