Projects are carefully monitored and tracked. When they are complete, they are reviewed, and reports are written based on lessons learned. Alaska has a complete inventory of all its buildings, updated every few years. The inventory functions as an asset management system as well. There are regular condition assessments for most buildings.
Routine maintenance is inadequate, and there's a backlog of major maintenance needs.
But both the executive and legislative branches appear to be ready to focus on this area. The legislature has required that a maintenance budget be produced for the state, starting in fiscal year 2000. After winning an arbitration case last year against the state's powerful employee unions, Alaska is now free to make a number of heretofore-unthinkable changes. And it has begun making them. Agencies are no longer dependent on hiring from limited lists obtained from a central agency.