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State government reorganizes seeking more efficiency

The News Observer | by Rob Christensen | December 30, 2011

RALEIGH -- The inmates have hauled office furniture. Name plates have changed on doors. And whole new state agencies are being created or dissolved.

North Carolina state government is undergoing the biggest reorganization in 40 years, the largest since Gov. Bob Scott led an effort in the legislature to reshape state government in the early 1970s. It's an effort by Democratic Gov. Bev Perdue - with the support of the GOP legislature - to save money during difficult financial times. But how much will be saved isn't known.

The biggest change will happen Sunday, when a 25,000-employee criminal justice super agency is created, headquartered in the major high rise of the state government complex in downtown Raleigh.

The reorganization, set in motion in a speech Perdue gave in Pinehurst a year ago, is designed to streamline state government - a response to the leanest times since the Great Depression. The proposals were made when state government faced a projected $3.7 billion budget shortfall.

But there also will be changes in who runs the prisons, who cuts the unemployment checks and who manages forest resources.The reorganization, set in motion in a speech Perdue gave in Pinehurst a year ago, is designed to streamline state government - a response to the leanest times since the Great Depression. The proposals were made when state government faced a projected $3.7 billion budget shortfall.

Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2011/12/30/1741272/state-government-reorganizes.html?tab=gallery&gallery=/2011/12/29/1740802/reorganization-in-state-government.html&gid_index=1#storylink=cpyBut there also will be changes in who runs the prisons, who cuts the unemployment checks and who manages forest resources.The reorganization, set in motion in a speech Perdue gave in Pinehurst a year ago, is designed to streamline state government - a response to the leanest times since the Great Depression. The proposals were made when state government faced a projected $3.7 billion budget shortfall
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