GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1993

S	1 

SENATE BILL 372

Short Title:  GPAC/Streamline DPI Management.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Senator Martin of Guilford.
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Referred to:  Government Performance Audit.
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February 24, 1993

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO IMPLEMENT A RECOMMENDATION OF THE GOVERNMENT PERFORMANCE AUDIT COMMITTEE TO ELIMINATE EXCESS LAYERS OF MANAGEMENT TO REDUCE NARROW SPANS OF CONTROL IN THE MANAGEMENT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. The General Assembly finds that the Department of Public Instruction has a number of management positions with narrow spans of control, which are management positions that manage fewer than six other positions.  In a number of cases, there are clusters of management positions with relatively few staff members reporting to them.  Many individuals in these management positions with narrow spans of control are spending at least forty percent (40%) of their time on supervision or managerial responsibilities.  Given the significant amount of time spent on supervision and the small numbers of staff supervised, there is excess management staffing; therefore, the following positions are eliminated from the Department of Public Instruction:
(1)	The Director of School Services and the Director of School Facilities, and three associated clerical positions;
(2)	The Budget Management Chief Consultant and the Financial Review Chief Consultant;
(3)	The Teacher Education Services Division Director and the LEA Personnel Services Division Director, and two associated clerical positions;
(4)	The Management Information Systems Assistant Director; and
(5)	The Personnel Management Chief Consultant and the Agency Services Chief Consultant, and two associated clerical positions.
Also, the Transportation Management Information System Project manager shall report to the SIMS Application Development Manager.
Sec. 2.  The base budget of the  Department of Public Instruction is reduced by six hundred eighty-nine thousand five hundred seventy-seven dollars ($689,577) for the 1993-94 fiscal year and six hundred eighty-nine thousand five hundred seventy-seven dollars ($689,577) for the 1994-95 fiscal year due to the decrease in personnel positions mandated by Section 1 of this act.
Sec. 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1993.