Op – Ed by Doug Wacek
In late 2003, Governor Douglas appointed seven private citizens to undertake an independent review of Vermont’s largest employer – state government. As a result, the Vermont Institute on Government Effectiveness was created as a non-profit organization with private funding. Its mission was to recommend ways to improve state government’s overall effectiveness, understanding that this complex organization represented (in 2005) 9,800 employees with 62 business units and annual expenditures in excess of $3.6 billion. (more…)
