Have You Union/NonUnion Folk Been Treated To ALEC's 'State Budget Reform Toolkit' ???

Recommendation: Adopt a state hiring freeze encompassing
all departments.

Recommendation: Everything should be on the table,
including changes in benefits and increased employee
contribution rates, as well as employer contribution
rates. Most importantly, states should consider replacing
their defined-benefit plans with defined-contribution
(401k style) plans for new employees.

Recommendation: Freeze defined-benefit OPEB
plans, and replace them with defined-contribution plans
for new employees. One approach is to offer optional
participation in Health Savings Accounts (HSA) for state
workers. Indiana’s experience has been highly successful,
with 70 percent of state workers choosing the HSA
plans—with Indiana’s taxpayers saving millions in the
process.

Recommendation: Create a tracking system whereby
any position that is vacant for more than six months
is eliminated.

Recommendation: Policymakers should delay automatic
pay increases for state employees until the rising
costs of government are brought under control.
Recommendation: Lawmakers can improve the
performance of state agencies by implementing activity-
based costing.

Recommendation: States should create a permanent
sunset review commission to recommend ways the
state can cut costs, reduce waste, and improve efficiency
and service levels.

Recommendation: The state auditor (or similar position)
should be given the authority to conduct regular,
comprehensive performance audits of state agencies.

Recommendation: States should give authority to
independent firms to conduct regular, comprehensive
recovery audits of state agencies.

Recommendation: Increase the use of privatization
and competitive contracting to execute tasks to lower
costs and improve the quality of service provided.
Recommendation: Pass legislation creating a Florida-
style “center of excellence” on privatization and competitive
contracting.

Recommendation: States should prepare comprehensive
asset inventories—updated continually on an
ongoing basis to ensure currency and accuracy—and
commission a review to categorize all state-owned property
and identify asset divestiture and realignment opportunities.

Recommendation: Develop a program (or programs)
for state employees to allow them to be rewarded
for savings generated by new innovations or re-engineering
of existing business practices.

Link (.pdf file): http://www.alec.org/am/pdf/tax/Budget_toolkit.pdf

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It's the Master Plan...

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I even posted here here in a couple of threads the last two days. Actually, there's a bunch of posts about ALEC the past few days.

Thank you.

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that some conservative group funded by the koch's be writing our laws?

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