The governor has indicated that one of her priorities over the coming year will be contract reform. Cost accounting, which is not supported by current technology, is also an area ripe for improvement. Though the state has designed an impressive planning exercise for its long-term capital needs, the legislature generally has ignored the plans in favor of tax cuts. Even the Joint Committee on Capital Review in the legislature has recently been ignored by the full House and Senate. The state is relying ever more on leased space to house its agencies, and so prices are escalating.
Services suffer, too.
The legislature fully funded requests for major building maintenance needs in 1999. Unfortunately, it still does far too little in preventive maintenance. If it ain't broke, they don't even consider fixing it. Arizona's automated hiring system is great. Resumes are filed in a central database, agencies enter the skill-sets needed and the system spits out appropriate names.