By Bill Raack, KWMU
St. Louis, MO. – A task force appointed to find ways to revamp Missouri's government has given the governor a list of 84 recommendations.
The Government Review Commission spent eight months evaluating government agencies and interviewing hundreds of state residents.
Co-chairman Warren Erdman says the panel's final report calls for changes to cut costs, reduce inefficiency and improve service
If there were a theme that runs through all 84 of these recommendations, I believe that theme would be better coordination, more productive use of state resources and coordinating the efforts of state workers to deliver services more efficiently, Erdman said.
The commission's recommendations include replacing Missouri's annual budget with one that runs for a two-year cycle and creating cabinet-level Secretaries of Higher Education and Elementary and Secondary Education appointed by the governor.