State report says Texas has too many reports
AUSTIN — The Texas State Library and Archives Commission is declaring there are too many state reports.
It says so in a 668-page report.
The project took 18 months and included the commission's small team canvassing more than 170 agencies, and public colleges and universities, checking on all the reports they are assigned to do.
If you want to read the whole story, click on the Houston Chronicle above.
In the past, the state regularly compiled a list of about 400 reports that agencies were required by the Legislature to produce. But the commission found more than 1,600, and state records administrator Michael Heskett is pretty sure his team hasn't found them all.
Heskett's initial findings indicate more than 400 report requirements are obsolete, duplicative or not needed as frequently as currently required.
Having spent many years as part of a religious bureaucracy, as a part of the legal bureaucracy now, I can assure you that the proper response to this finding is to establish a new commission and have it file its interim report in time for the next session of the legislature with a final report to be completed in time for the following session.
Seriously.Just watch.
(See, I do keep up with the Texas news.)
1 comment:
Haha. So ironic!
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