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July 13, 2010 By News Report
California has received more than 5,500 suggestions for reducing wasteful spending in the year since Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced a new online reporting website.
The tool at CA.gov called Waste Watchers gives state government employees and all citizens a venue for identifying possible instances of waste. Users have the choice of writing in anonymously and all reports are confidential, according to the website. The state wants the submissions to be as detailed as possible, including the state agency or department and names of people involved.
The administration claims that the submissions to the website have resulted in one-time savings of $24.5 million as of Tuesday, July 13. The state has also found $1.3 million in annual savings.
The website includes examples of identified waste and the corrective action taken or an in-progress update. For example, a suggestion that the California Highway Patrol discontinues its practice of professionally detailing patrol cars -- it's allowed only in "extraordinary circumstances" -- the state says it will save $3,000. Some savings are much larger: The highway patrol is working to enact a suggestion that it move to paperless process for accident reports, with an anticipated savings of $300,000.
The Waste Watchers website came from a reader's suggestion during a Sacramento Bee newspaper editorial board, according to state officials. Any Californian can submit a report on the Waste Watchers site, but when launching the website the administration anticipated that state employees, in particular, would have government waste to report and new efficiency measures to recommend.
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Visited the site and don't see that many - are they published somewhere else?
I work for CDCR and think there is incredible waste in the out of state (COCF) department. Because the number of inmates hosed outside California was not considered by the 3 judge panel when overcrowding was ordered to be reduced, it continues to waste California money. They claim it is cheaper to house inmate out of state however they are not considering the thousands of CDCR employees who work for COCF alone and the travel and housing paid to employees to live out of state to monitor. The cost and the overhead. It is astronomical and a complete waste of taxpayers dollars. Gov Brown should really evaluate this and put an immediate halt to any further transfer of inmate to an prison out of California and downsize COCF.
Why de we lay off teachers, firefitters and police and still provide Caltrans workers a vehicle to use going to and from work. I have saw these vehicles sat for as long as three weeks while the employee is on vacation. If the vehicle is not needed 52 weeks of the year, then they are not needed at all. Why should taxpayhers have to pay for their transportation for work?
provide option for paperless billing on California Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan (PCIP). This will save money on printing and mailing invoices to those participants using electronic fund transfers.
re Tuolumne County schools...Sonora area high school... when i saw the big yellow school bus at a loacl post office several times, i found the driver was getting personal mail. i called the county and was told that they allow drivers to use the bus if their persoanl business is along their route. why are we the taxpayer using our dollars to pay for the gas, maintenance and time for personal use of government property? why is that diverted money not going to the education of the student rather than for the personal use of employees? when i said i was going to contact the state, the transportation rep just literally laughed in my ear.