GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1983 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 540

HOUSE BILL 916

 

AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE GOVERNOR'S MANAGEMENT COUNCIL.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Article 9 of Chapter 143B of the General Statutes is amended by adding a new Part to read:

"Part 23. Governor's Management Committee.

"§ 143B-426.21.  Governor's Management Council. - (a) Creation; membership. The Governor's Management Council is created in the Department of Administration. The Council shall contain the following members: The Secretary of Administration, who shall serve as chairman, a senior staff officer responsible for productivity and management programs from the Departments of Commerce, Revenue, Natural Resources and Community Development, Transportation, Crime Control and Public Safety, Cultural Resources, Correction, Human Resources, and Administration; and an equivalent officer from the Offices of State Personnel, State Budget and Management, and the Governor's Program for Executive and Organizational Development. The following persons may also serve on the Council if the entity represented chooses to participate: a senior staff officer responsible for productivity and management programs from any State department not previously specified in this section, and a representative from The University of North Carolina.

(b)       Powers. The Council may:

(1)       coordinate efforts to make State government more efficient and productive;

(2)       review plans and policies submitted by participating agencies to improve agency management and productivity;

(3)       recommend to the Governor the issuance of specific Management Directive and Executive Orders that will establish management policies and procedures to be implemented by the agencies to improve agency management and productivity;

(4)       provide a clearinghouse for productivity initiatives and communicate these initiatives to all agencies;

(5)       authorize special projects on specific management and productivity improvement issues;

(6)       review plans and policies of statewide management programs such as the Incentive Pay Program, the North Carolina Employee Suggestion System, the Work Options Program, and similar productivity improvement programs; and

(7)       develop criteria for annual recognition for outstanding Government Executives.

"§ 143B-426.22. Meetings; clerical services report.-The Council shall meet monthly or at the call of the Chairman. The Department of Administration is responsible for providing clerical and other services required by the Council. The Council shall make an annual report of its work to the Governor and to the Joint Appropriations Committee of the General Assembly."

Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.  This act shall only become effective if sufficient funds are appropriated for its implementation.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 16th day of June, 1983.