Jerry Brown aims to merge state personnel agencies

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(05-10) 17:58 PDT Sacramento -- The two agencies that oversee personnel in state government would be merged into one department next year in a move that is expected to save taxpayers millions of dollars each year, Gov. Jerry Brown announced Tuesday.

Under Brown's plan, the Department of Personnel Administration and the State Personnel Board will become the California Department of Human Resources on July 1, 2012. In a statement, the governor said the move will allow the state to reduce the two agencies' workforce by 15 to 20 percent, saving about $5.8 million a year on salaries and other personnel costs. He predicted further savings as the new department "streamlines operations and replaces outmoded personnel practices."

The Legislature has 60 days to consider the plan, which was submitted Tuesday. It will automatically go into effect unless it is rejected by a majority of either house.

Brown noted that over the past 16 years, at least six reports and studies have called for an overhaul of California's personnel management system, and that the state's "complex and outmoded structure and processes have made it difficult to effectively recruit, hire, promote, classify and discipline state employees."

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[JDPriestly]

1. Good idea.

[KamaAina]

2. Jerry is the best there is at saving millions

state cars, cell phones, renting an apartment in place of the governor's mansion, etc.

But we need to save billions (or get the repukes to let us raise them as revenue).

[msongs]

3. how bout we quit providing services to districts that voted for republican reps? nt