House Journal: Page 1247: Tuesday, April 9, 2002
7 following:
8 "Sec. . DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES
9 CREATED.
10 1. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the
11 contrary, a new department of administrative services
12 is created under the control and supervision of the
13 governor. The new department shall subsume all of the
14 functions of the department of personnel, department
15 of general services, information technology
16 department, Iowa communications network, and the
17 accounting division of the department of revenue and
18 finance, which shall cease to exist as separate
19 departments or units. Upon establishment of the new
20 department of administrative services, the governor
21 shall appoint the director of the department, subject
22 to confirmation by the senate. The positions of
23 director of the departments of personnel, general
24 services, and information technology shall be
25 eliminated and the administrators of the divisions of
26 the new department responsible for those duties shall
27 be appointed by the director of the department of
28 administrative services.
29 2. There is appropriated from the general fund of
30 the state to the department of administrative services
31 for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2002, and ending
32 June 30, 2003, the following amount, or so much
33 thereof as is necessary, to be used for the purposes
34 designated:
35 For salaries, support, maintenance, and
36 miscellaneous purposes:
37 $ 14,272,722
38 The amounts appropriated in this subsection shall
39 be in lieu of appropriations otherwise provided in
40 this Act to the department of personnel, department of
41 general services, information technology department,
42 and the Iowa telecommunications and technology
43 commission for Iowa communications network operations.
44 3. The goal of the reorganization shall be to
45 consolidate administrative functions in state
46 government in order to streamline state government,
47 reduce governmental expenditures, and improve services
48 to other state departments. The new department shall
49 utilize entrepreneurial management techniques in order
50 to focus the department on being more responsive to
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1 customers and more efficient in providing services.
2 The new department shall negotiate performance
3 agreements with the department's customers and build
4 capacities to continuously improve service. The new
5 department shall have no more than three levels of
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