New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 9 - EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT › Subtitle A - Governor's Office › Chapter I - Executive Orders › Part 4 - Executive Orders (Mario M. Cuomo) › Section 4.27 - Executive order no. 27: establishing the office of management and productivity

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
WHEREAS, the continuing pressures on the State's financial
					 plan required a concerted effort to increase productivity and enhance
					 management approaches to controlling expenditures and maximizing revenues;
					 and
WHEREAS, there is a need to assure that internal controls
					 within and between State agencies meet uniformly high standards for
					 safeguarding the State's finances and promoting efficient operations;
					 and
WHEREAS, it is appropriate to utilize the talents and ideas
					 of managers in both State government and the private sector to improve
					 productivity, streamline procedures and modernize the administrative operations
					 of State departments and agencies;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Mario M. Cuomo, Governor of the State of
					 New York, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the
					 Laws of the State of New York, do hereby establish, within the Executive
					 Department, an office to be known as the Office of Management and
					 Productivity.
I. Director and Staff
The office shall be headed by a director, entitled Special
					 Assistant to the Governor for Management and Productivity. The director shall
					 be appointed by the Governor and shall serve at his pleasure.
The director may request the temporary assignment of any
					 State employee he deems necessary to carry out a specific project or other
					 element of the office's mission.
II. Powers and Duties
After consultation with the Director of State Operations
					 and the Director of the Budget, the office shall undertake special studies,
					 analyses, research or other projects to meet specific management needs. These
					 projects shall be designed to:
a.
				  enhance government productivity by increasing agency output within current
				  resource levels;
b. identify
				  methods to streamline agency operating procedures and systems, with particular
				  attention to opportunities for transfer of improvements among other agencies;
				  and/or
c. apply modern business
				  techniques in systems development, information processing and project
				  management to enhance productivity.
The office shall take steps to develop a system of internal
					 controls, within agencies as well as between operating and controls agencies,
					 that provides reasonable assurance that agency operations, management practices
					 and financial transactions are conducted in a manner that safeguards the
					 State's finances, promotes efficient agency operations and minimizes
					 opportunities for mismanagement of government funds.
The office shall communicate with the management of major
					 corporations doing business in New York, to identify private sector management
					 practices and innovations that could be applicable to State operations. This
					 network shall also serve as a mechanism for recruiting on-loan private sector
					 executives with special expertise to participate in management projects.