Take two initiatives Kasich bragged about in the most recent GOP debate: his move to tie the state's subsidy of public universities to completion (though he equivocates here between course completion and graduation) and his creation of a higher education task force on accountability and efficiency.
Recommendation 3: Senior management within the Country Office should convene a task force to increase the efficiency of procurement, logistics and operations, and financial management procedures.
A report released last month by the Council on Foreign Relations, and presented to Vice President Dick Cheney's task force, noted that if the fuel efficiency requirements for sport utility vehicles matched that of cars, the savings would amount to 225,000 barrels of oil a day.
The confusion during the 2004 election prompted heavy criticism by the City Council and by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who named a task force to suggest ways to improve election efficiency.
The New York City Department of Buildings should be taken over by a nonprofit public authority committed to improving efficiency and rooting out corruption, several speakers told a mayoral task force at a public hearing at City Hall yesterday.
The task force also directed that any future standards "increase efficiency without negatively impacting the U.S. automobile industry," a guideline that environmentalists said would most likely restrict all but incremental change.
Mr. Cheney, speaking on television today, also sought to show that his task force had put a balanced emphasis on increasing energy efficiency as well as expanding supplies of oil, coal and natural gas.
During the initial phase of the project (first month) efficiency and interface coordination were checked daily by the members of the task force.
So he has created a task force to advise him, by December, on how to improve efficiency further.The QDR makes two groups of people happy.
While executives are negotiating with unions over labor concessions, the task force will look at how to wring money out of areas like network efficiency, technology and air traffic.
His policy work spans from working on Acting Governor Codey's pensions benefits review task force to serving as a member of Governor Corzine's commission on government efficiency and reform.
