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Article: State's workers know where savings exist
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- Concord Monitor
- Article date:
- March 7, 2009
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Five months before Gov. John Lynch delivered his proposed budget,
the State Employees' Association held discussions with him about the
many ways to save money and become more efficient.
Frontline state employees continue to offer hundreds of
suggestions about ways state government could realize substantial
savings - some as simple as turning off computers and using setback
thermostats. We also suggested investigating a four-day workweek and
restricting the use of state vehicles.
Many suggestions are the same ideas proposed to the Legislature
in 1990 and which have been ignored. Here we are again in 2009,
scrambling to balance the needs of the state with the reality of
insufficient revenue. ...