In a speech last year Mitchell said that since he became international development secretary in 2010 he had spent his time trying to "turn the Department for International Development into a department of state, rather than an NGO moored to the side of government".
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The mission of Empire State Development, the department's parent agency, is indeed "to promote a vigorous and growing economy, encourage the creation of new job and economic opportunities, increase revenues to the State and its municipalities, and achieve stable and diversified local economies".
The Consumer Council called on the department of regional development to "state publicly and clearly what the full impact, both in terms of the financial burden and reduced network coverage, will be for consumers".
Don Hutchinson, secretary of the state's department of economic development, said that the decision to invest in the Football Network was not based on its own analysis of the network's viability or financing.
The state government has pumped millions into IT development, and although it's not yet a dominant industry in Iowa, IT companies have also made nearly $600 million in new investments, according to the state's department of economic development.
Mr. Jones, a senior vice president of the Empire State Development Corporation, said there should be a full audit of all county departments to find excessive spending.
This led to the state development department assessing environmental issues around projects instead of the environmental department, he said.
"The vagaries of petroleum impact Hawaii far more than any other state," said Theodore Peck, an energy administrator in the state's department of business, economic development and tourism.
Creating an Under Secretary of State for Development and building out the state department's own army of trained, civilians could have been "the big idea" delivered by the QDDR.
