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Proceedings from the
Governor's Conference
| Governor
Rick Perry |
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| Governor
Perry then addressed the meeting presenting his
directions for the participants. He emphasized his
pleasure at the recipients of the Texas Star Award and
recognized the recipients when he inaugurated the
award in November of 1999. Governor Perry stressed
three key themes for all organizations to address:
innovation, efficiency and effectiveness. He asked
each to think very openly of what government, what
their agency would look like if it had not boundaries.
He advised that he wanted each organization to think
in terms of what they would need to produce the
idealized situation. He asked them to identify what
rules, what statutes were barriers. He said that the
Legislature’s accountability was an important
function but that each agency must think first of what
was their main function and then identify all barriers
that existed that served to mitigate against or dilute
that function. He advised the audience that the
Governor’s Offices would be working with each
organization to enable them to more fully provide the
functions that were their responsibility. Governor
Perry said that while no one could foresee what the
budgetary consequences of the economic slowdown of
2000 would be that we should use the 1980s as a
caution. State government was not prepared to
anticipate budgetary reductions during that decade and
that made the effort more painful. He said that we
should be wise this time and use the coming months to
identify and husband available resources as well as be
diligent in improving organizational creativity and
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