Steve,

How ironic we sent the attached letter to Arnold on December 16, 2003 recommending that the position of Executive Director of the Commission be abolished because it is redundant and that Division Directors should report directly to the President of the Commission.

So please do not take our concerns as being personal.

We just believe that it is the duty of taxpayers to help the Governor reform state bureaucracies. Your December 17, 2004 Memo we believe is an attempt to undermine the efforts of the governor to meet his stated goals of making govt more efficient and meeting planned results and also make sure that Accountability and Responsibilities are adequately determined.

We were going to ignore the CPR DOCUMENT signed by you and sent to the Governors office but because of your latest move we are now going to thoroughly examined that document and any deliberate misrepresentations discovered will be reported to the governor.

Our initial review shows that it is a document crafted to rationalize and justify the way things are and to keep them that way. We really want the governor to know that his major problem is that of the leadership and management of the bureaucracies of State Govt.

So long as he depends solely on management input he is not going to achieve his stated Public Policy goals because you bureaucrats want to keep your jobs. Well some of us know that MANAGEMENT IS MAJOR OBSTACLE to creating change and the only people who are going to help the Governor realize that are dedicated employees like those who belong to the Concerned Staff Committee of the state.

Yaya Fanusie,
Concerned Staff Committee and What Now?!

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What Now?!
199 Montecito Ave. Suite 307
Oakland, CA 9410
510-465-6739

December 16, 2003

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
State of California
1st Floor State Capitol
Sacramento, CA 95814

Subject: Suggestions on how to improve the operational efficiency and organizational effectiveness of California Public Utilities Commission. Part 1

Dear Governor Schwarzenegger:

As you said during your campaign for the Governorship, you want the people of California to help you make California great again and we believe that you want our input to help you meet your goals. We share your concerns about waste, inefficiencies and lack of leadership in the state bureaucracy.

The Concerned Staff Committee of California Public Utilities Commission recommends that you may want to get PUC CODE 305(copy attached) amended through the elimination of the Executive Director position. We believe that for accountability and responsibility to be clearly established for achieving the Commission program goals, the divisions directors should report directly to the President of the Commission.

It is our view that by getting rid of the Executive Director and deputy/assistant Executive Director, over $300,000 for salaries and benefits would be saved. Besides the savings obtained, operational efficiency and effectiveness would become the norm rather than the gross inefficiency and mismanagement that is now rife in the Commission.

It is very simple reform needed to correct this crafted anomaly embedded in PUC Code 305.

Please note that similar conditions exist in many departments and agencies in the State Bureaucracy and uncovering them would help in reducing the state deficit.
We also would like to suggest that you cannot uncover the waste and inefficiencies in many departments simply by asking the managers of these agencies and departments to give you an accurate account of conditions etc. You need the contributions from the non-managers.

In our next letter (Part 2), We are going to provide you with suggestions on how the California Public Utilities Commission can be reformed so as to ensure that we have managers who are honest and competent.

Sincerely,

Yaya Fanusie, Ph.D.
Publisher, What Now?!