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Thank you for visiting cutwaste.org. I decided to launch this website as we began the process earlier this summer of slashing spending from the state budget.

Unlike the federal government, Georgia is required to constitutionally balance its budget. This means when the economy slows, we can’t borrow money to avoid cuts like the federal government can. This is a great feature of our state constitution because it forces state elected officials to make hard decisions when tax collections drop in a slow economy.

However, as you might imagine, cutting millions in state spending is never an easy process. Many things we spend money on -- such as prisons, roads, colleges, schools, and law enforcement -- are absolutely...
Case Studies

For years, the State of Georgia had been running what amounted to an internal rental car service. Employees who needed a car to travel around the state could check one out from the motor pool, drive where they needed to go, and return the state car.

The only problem was that the State wasn’t very good at running a rental car agency. The cars weren’t maintained as well as they needed to be, nor were they replaced on time. This meant we ended up with lots of cars that were in bad shape, didn’t run reliably, and cost lots of money to maintain. On top of that, the State didn’t use the cars efficiently. This meant employees who needed cars couldn’t always get them, and many cars that should have been in use were sitting idle. In some cases, agencies that needed a van could only get a car, while others who only had one employee going somewhere were forced to drive a van. In short, the entire system was a costly mess.

Fortunately, Governor Perdue and the Department of Administrative Services (DOAS) realized that private car rental companies could provide reliable vehicles much more efficiently and cheaply than the state could by running its own small internal rental car agency. The system is now run by Enterprise, delivering reliable vehicles of the right size at the right time, and saving hundreds of thousands in taxpayer funds. To read more on this change, click here:

http://ssl.doas.state.ga.us/PRSapp/statewide/SCXDOC209.pdf

At that state level, we are now pursuing even larger savings by undertaking a massive outsourcing of our state information technology services function to private vendors. The Georgia Technology Authority has already begun reducing the internal state computer workforce and selecting a vendor who can perform the same functions better and at a lower price. For more information on this process, click here:

http://gta.georgia.gov


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