GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1993

S	1 

SENATE BILL 295

Short Title:  GPAC/20 Positions Eliminated/DHR.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Senator Martin of Guilford.
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Referred to:  Government Performance Audit.
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February 22, 1993

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO IMPLEMENT A RECOMMENDATION OF THE GOVERNMENT PERFORMANCE AUDIT COMMITTEE TO ELIMINATE TWENTY POSITIONS IN THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES AND TO STREAMLINE THE OFFICE FURTHER.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  The General Assembly finds that a well-structured organization can operate with a managerial/supervisory span of control of between three and six positions.  A higher supervisor-to-staff ratio that occurs from narrow spans of control can result in increased operating costs, and the creation of a middle layer of management that can impede organizational efficiency.  The General Assembly further finds that 20 positions in the Secretary's Office, many of which are managerial/supervisory positions, have three or fewer positions directly reporting to them, and involve one-to-one reporting requirements.
Sec. 2.  The 20 excess positions in the Office of the Secretary of the Department of Human Resources that have three or fewer positions reporting to them are eliminated.  These positions are in the following organizational units of the Secretary's Office:
Office of Governmental Liaison Services
Council on Developmental Disabilities
Division of Information Systems
Division of Economic Opportunity
Division of Public Affairs
Division of Personnel Management Services
Division of Budget and Analysis
Office of the Controller
The Secretary of the Department of Human Resources shall identify those 20 positions to be eliminated in accordance with the finding in Section 1 of this act and with this section.
Sec. 3.  After identifying the positions to be eliminated by Section 2 of this act, the Secretary of Human Resources shall combine the Office of Government Liaison Services and the Office of Public Affairs into an Office of External Affairs, under a director whom the Secretary shall appoint.  This director shall report directly to the Secretary.
Sec. 4.  The base budget of the Department of Human Resources is reduced by six hundred six thousand dollars ($606,000) for the 1993-94 fiscal year and by six hundred six thousand dollars ($606,000) for the 1994-95 fiscal year due to the implementation of this act.
Sec. 5.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1993.