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Home / Legislative Action Center / Issues - Other Issues / Gregoire's Call to Weed Out Unnecessary Programs And to Cut Out Middle Managers is a Good Start |
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Gregoire's Call to Weed Out Unnecessary Programs And to Cut Out Middle Managers is a Good Start |
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Written On: March 16, 2005 |
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OLYMPIA—Responding to Gov. Christine Gregoire’s call to cut unnecessary programs and middle managers, Association of Washington Business President Don Brunell said it is a good start but more work needs to be done.
Gregoire said she would include in her proposed 2005-2007 biennium budget elimination of 1,000 middle-management positions – a 20 percent cut in the ranks of the state’s 5,000-member Washington Management Service. These cuts would save the state $50 million.
“We face a very serious $2.2 billion revenue shortfall,” Brunell said. Unless the Legislature finds ways to save money, the $50 million the Governor plans to save will not be nearly enough.
Brunell added: “I just hope that the new budget doesn’t add back the people that the Governor plans to cut!” For example, the new family leave bill will add another 60 state workers.
According to the Governor, between 1998 and 2004, the number of non-management jobs in state government rose by 3.6 percent, while WMS positions grew by 42.1 percent.
Brunell agrees with the Governor’s statement: "We can no longer cut service providers and hire more managers," she said. "We have too many people pushing paper."
“Our government needs to find better ways to deliver services directly to the taxpayers, cut out the delays and hassles, and slim down,” Brunell concluded. “Citizens want services not excuses or as the Governor correctly identified—paper-shuffling.”
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