Report of the Efficiency and Economy Committee Created Under the Authority of the Forty-eighth General Assembly, State of Illinois ... |
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advice and consent agencies Agriculture Apiaries appointed appropriations Assembly assessment Attorney Auditor of Public authorities bills Board of Administration Board of Health Board of Pardons Board of Prison boards and commissions budget bureaus charge charitable institutions Charities Commission Chicago Commis consolidated constitutional Cook County correctional institutions ECONOMY COMMITTEE educational efficiency and economy elections Entomologist established ex officio executive departments exercise expenditures expenses Finance Administration Food Commissioner Fort Massac functions Governor greater efficiency Highway important inheritance tax inspection Inspector investigation Labor and Mining Lakes Commission legislation methods Monument Committee normal schools offices organization Park present arrangements primary elections proposed provisions Public Accounts public health Public Utilities Commission Quincy Wright recommended reorganization reports responsibility result revenues Rivers and Lakes salaries Secretary secure Senate separate board single official Superintendent of Public supervision system of accounting taxation three members tion Treasurer University of Illinois unpaid WILLIAM MCKINLEY
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Page 22 - He shall account to the general assembly, and accompany his message with a statement of all moneys received and paid out by him from any funds subject to his order, with vouchers, and at the commencement of each regular session, present estimates of the amount of money required to be raised by taxation for all purposes.
Page 7 - The Executive Department shall consist of a Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, Auditor of Public Accounts, Treasurer, Superintendent of Public Instruction, and Attorney General...
Page 21 - It is true that the great number of these are under the nominal supervision of the governor, through his power of appointment and removal. But the very number of separate offices makes impossible the exercise of any adequate control. To a very large extent each authority is left to determine its own action; conflict of...
Page 12 - Bureau, of a joint committee of the two houses — to investigate all departments of the state government including all boards, bureaus and commissions which have been created by the General Assembly, such investigations to be made with a view of securing a more perfect system of accounting, combining and centralizing the duties of the various departments, abolishing such as are useless and securing for the state of Illinois such reorganization that will promote greater efficiency and greater economy...
Page 7 - This amendment, while retaining an existing clause vesting the exclusive legislative power in a general assembly consisting of a senate and a house of representatives...
Page 19 - There are separate boards for each of the state penitentiaries and reformatory and for each of the state normal schools. There are half a dozen boards dealing with agricultural interests and about a score of separate labor agencies, including four boards dealing with mining problems and eight free employment offices, each substantially independent of each other. State finance administration is distributed between a number of elective and appointive officials and boards without concentrated responsibility....
Page 19 - Under the existing arrangements inefficiency and waste necessarily arise from the lack of correlation and cooperation in the work of different offices and institutions which are carrying out similar or closely related functions. There are separate boards for each of the State penitentiaries and reformatory and for each of the State normal schools. There are half a dozen boards dealing with agricultural interests ; and about a score of separate labor agencies, including four boards dealing with mining...
Page 19 - ... quantities on contracts based on competitive bids, as is done by the board of administration for the charitable institutions. The absence of definite correlation and co-operation between the most closely related offices, necessarily leads to loss and inefficient work. The only supervision provided by law over most of the executive offices, boards, and commissions burdens the Governor with a mass of unnecessary detail which no single individual can effectively handle, and at the same time does...
Page 18 - The main points in the indictment may be briefly summarized : There is unnecessary duplication of positions and salaries; not only in the chief officers of each separate bureau or board, but still more in their staffs of clerks and employees. But this is the smallest part of the loss. The work that is undertaken is not well done and costs much more for the results obtained than with a more efficient organization. Supplies in many cases are purchased in small quantities for each office or institution,...
Page 22 - ... above contemplates that the Governor shall present to the General Assembly a detailed budget of appropriations recommended by him for the ensuing biennium, together with an estimate of the revenues of the State from sources other than direct taxation during the biennium, and a statement as to the amount to be met by taxation. The careful preparation of such a budget would be a potent factor in securing economy and efficiency throughout the executive departments. But to make this possible requires...