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Task force reviews 1990s Governor Schaeffer agency‑consolidation recommendations
Summary
Legislative Council staff presented a memo summarizing Governor Ed Schafer's early‑1990s recommendations to combine or eliminate state agencies; committee members discussed how to evaluate whether later consolidations achieved their intended efficiencies.
Legislative Council staff presented a historical summary of Governor Ed Schafer's agency consolidation and elimination recommendations from the 1990s and early 2000s, drawing lessons for the current task force about how agency reorganizations can take years to complete and require follow‑up evaluation.
"This was a memo that I prepared in response to a suggestion and some comments made by Mr. Casper at the last meeting regarding agency consolidation and elimination efforts that were proposed by Governor Schaeffer in the 90s," Levi, Legislative Council staff, told the task force as he introduced the memorandum. He noted the memo catalogues which recommendations were…
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