So his budget today will outline a variety of other cuts, including 5,401 layoffs, and consolidating functions in almost every city agency.
Over the last several years, many hospitals in New York City have joined forces, hoping to save money by consolidating functions and increasing their bargaining power with insurance companies.
"Jay has made a very big and clear point about running a more efficient operation and consolidating functions," said Jeremy Soffin, a spokesman for the transportation authority.
A research report released last week by the New York State comptroller, Thomas DiNapoli, backs up that sensible but all-too-often-ignored principle with real-life examples of governments saving money by sharing services, consolidating functions and cooperating.
The panel's recommendations led to the creation of some of the most prominent agencies in Washington today, consolidating functions in each that had been spread throughout the federal government, among them the Environmental Protection Agency, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
The camp decided to add substantial new facilities, and while consolidating functions in a single location would result in an economical, monumental, and presumably more easily secured building, Fantastic Norway's design deliberately distributes these functions among many small and light structures.
In the Washington area, the Pentagon plans to close the existing Walter Reed Army Medical Center and build a $1 billion national military center with the same name on the campus of the naval medical center in Bethesda, Md. Each service has proposed consolidating functions to improve efficiencies.
Bartz could also try to streamline management somewhat by consolidating functions like marketing and engineering.
Also to regain your file names and structure back, use the consolidate function built into iTunes: File>Library>Organize Library.
It is true that the freedom to restructure departments, consolidate functions, and so on saved Hoosier taxpayers tons of money.
