Update on Budget and Control Board
HOW LONG SOUTH CAROLINA? HOW LONG MUST WE TOIL UNDER THIS BURDEN?
(that sounds poetic and familiar)
Erik K Ward reporting at The Nerve brings us this update:
On Tuesday, the Senate plans to resume debating a bill that would abolish the Budget and Control Board (BCB) and create an executive branch Department of Administration in its place.
The bill represents the most far-reaching attempt to make state government more efficient and accountable since the late former Gov. Carroll Campbell, a Republican, successfully pushed for restructuring while serving as the state’s chief executive from 1987 to 1995.
Arguably the biggest question about the bill though is not whether it will pass (it needs just one more affirmative vote from the Senate to do so), but how far it will go toward true change versus fig-leaf reform.
“I think that’s a good assessment,” says Sen. Tom Davis, a Republican from Beaufort County who is working closely on details of the bill, “and there’s going to be another episode in this drama – the empire strikes back.”
But there is pushback from the usual cast of characters. Take a look at Talbert Black’s report on the state of the B&CB at this link.
Ward’s article ends this way:
Regardless, don’t look for the Senate to dispense with the bill quickly.
“It’s going to take us awhile to make sure we get it right,” Massey says.
January 27, 2012
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