CMS will help agencies in answering questions posed by transition officials regarding such issues as balanced membership and expertise, compensation, continuity issues, and rotating committee membership. Database Betty Cooper, DOL, mentioned that she has a listing of committee members in a database. Roberta Fede also mentioned that she has a booklet on DOT advisory committees with memberships, etc. Ken Fussell stated that CMS has been trying to transition toward more use of GSA s shared data system. Everyone needs to interact with each other about these issues.
Agencies already can extract much information about committee members from the system.
Agencies need to give CMS an idea of what types of questions may be asked. Certain printouts can be obtained from the public side of the system using the download button. Jim Dean encouraged everyone to use the database update of the 2001 committee records. This will enable agencies keep get ahead of ongoing activities. Jim Dean stated that this is the first Presidential Transition that is occurring with the use of the Internet.