Huge department proposed to manage infrastructure.(california performance review)

San Diego Business Journal,  August, 2004  by Fine, Howard

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Talk about blowing up boxes in state government. In its most sweeping single proposed reform, the California Performance Review report commissioned by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger recommends combining all the state's infrastructure-building programs into one mammoth department. This superagency would be charged with doling out up to 10 percent of the state's $103 billion budget in the areas of transportation, housing, energy, water resources and telecommunications.

On top of running existing programs, the new Department of Infrastructure would take over the related planning and ...

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