| LaPolitics Weekly: Streamliners Won't Stop With Final Report |
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| Friday, November 20 2009 - 11:30 am |
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The Streamlining Commission has been a fixture in the state Capitol this fall and in the schedules of its members. While it is due to make a report to the Legislature by Jan. 4, its work won't end there. "There is an awful lot to be done," he said. "I don't think this is the kind of commission that cannot go forward." What it does after making its January report depends on how much cooperation in gathering financial information he gets from state agencies, which so far has been lacking, he said. When the commission was formed, it sent forms to agencies asking them to list programs, dollars spent on each, employees, numbers of people benefitted, and how the activity fits into the agency's legal mission. "We didn't get good responses," Donahue said, but he doesn't want agencies to think they can wait the commission out. "If we don't get the program information, then we will definitely go on and continue with contracts and programs to get the information we need to make the recommendations we need to make."
From LaPolitics Weekly |