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BUREAUCRATIC AFFAIRS * USA - Oversight commission demands TxDOT reform
... “In most cases, agencies under Sunset review are automatically abolished unless legislation is enacted to continue them”...
TX,USA -Land Line Magazine -June 4, 2008: -- Members of a state oversight commission want to strip the Texas Department of Transportation of its power to set its own agenda... The Texas Legislature created the 12-member Sunset Advisory Commission in 1977 to review more than 150 government agencies on a 12-year cycle. The commission includes 10 state representatives and senators and two members from the general public. Their mission is to identify and eliminate waste and duplication... Following is a list of the Sunset Advisory Commission recommendations for TxDOT and the Legislature:
* Achieve greater accountability under the oversight of a single commissioner of transportation. Legislative action would include the abolishment of the Texas Transportation Commission and have it replaced with a single appointed commissioner.
* Establish a legislative oversight committee.
* Provide better access to independent transportation information and research.
* Increase transparency of TxDOT’s transportation planning and project development process.
* Improve TxDOT’s public involvement efforts.
* Make the department’s contracting functions more accountable, particularly its development of comprehensive development agreements.
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