"My primary concern is resources," said the commissioner, who blamed the economic crisis for keeping staffing at what he called undesirable levels.
He is responsible for the relationship between the teams and the Players Association, as well as the human resources functions of the commissioner's office.
The limited resources provided to the commissioner may be an issue in enforcing this, particularly if the commissioner needs to go to the federal court to impose penalties on an entity; the court costs would have to be borne by the commissioner, a cost his office currently cannot afford under its budget.
In a thinly veiled plea for more resources, the deputy assistant commissioner Graham McNulty pointed out police shifts have had to be extended after a series of knife attacks, including the killing of Jodie Chesney, 17, on Friday.
Mr. Turner, the human resources commissioner, said the criminal inquiry into Community Law had nothing to do with his agency.
Last week, Public Advocate Mark Green, a candidate for mayor, wrote a letter to Jason Turner, the human resources commissioner, questioning the proposed contract award to Gentiva.
And warmer water temperatures are also to blame for the invasive green crabs that are wiping out shellfish populations on the Maine coast, which the marine resources commissioner has described as "the No. 1 threat to that portion of our coastal economy".
Even the natural resources commissioner Tom Landwehr, who pointed out that the technology is untested, indicated that the bubble-barrier might be the best option to deal with advancement of carp moving northward.
"We will be converting to a program wherein all future referrals will be employed as temporary staff through a temporary staffing company," the commissioner of human resources, Jason Turner, wrote to the parks commissioner, Henry J. Stern, in a letter dated Dec. 31.
In Maine, the commissioner of marine resources estimated in August that this year's haul of about 18,000lbs had fetched nearly $40m, more than five times last year's figure.
