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THE SENATE                           S.R. NO.              
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2000                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                     SENATE RESOLUTION

  REVIEWING INEFFICIENCY OF GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS CAUSED BY
    DELAYED SERVICES TO STATE AGENCIES AND DEPARTMENTS.


 1        WHEREAS, in these times of fiscal austerity, state
 2   government must strive to "do more with less", so it is
 3   critical that those state agencies that provide services to
 4   other state agencies do so in an efficient and expeditious
 5   manner; and
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 7        WHEREAS, in public as well as private organizations, a
 8   basic tenet that holds true in both is that the organization as
 9   a whole is only as efficient as its support functions allow it
10   to be; and
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12        WHEREAS, the Department of Accounting and General Services
13   is a support agency responsible for providing among other
14   things, procurement reviews and authorizations for state
15   agencies wishing to procure goods and services to carry out
16   their mandated functions; and
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18        WHEREAS, an area of inefficiency in the procurement
19   process is the review of procurement requests by the Attorney
20   General; and
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22        WHEREAS, when state agencies who rely on certain goods and
23   services to conduct their business or to provide direct
24   services cannot obtain them in a timely manner, such state
25   agencies are unnecessarily inhibited from implementing
26   statutorily mandated services to the public; and
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28        WHEREAS, the Legislature has come to the realization that
29   the support functions provided by the Department of Accounting
30   and General Services are to a certain extent, precluding other
31   state departments and agencies from attaining their full
32   operational potential; and
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34        WHEREAS, in order for the state agencies who provide
35   direct services to keep up with the demands of their
36   constituencies, and maintain effective and efficient
37   operations, the State must ensure that support agencies are

 
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 1   appropriately responding to their needs in a timely and
 2   efficient manner; now, therefore,
 3   
 4        BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the Twentieth Legislature
 5   of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2000, that the
 6   Comptroller and the Attorney General, to the extent that the
 7   Attorney General provides legal services for procurement
 8   request review, provide the Senate Committee on Government
 9   Operations and Housing with an accurate assessment of the
10   services they provide to state agencies and an explanation as
11   to why delays in authorizing procurement requests are so
12   prevalent; and
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14        BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Comptroller and the
15   Attorney General are requested to report findings and
16   recommendations to the Legislature twenty days before the
17   convening of the Regular Session of 2001; and
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19        BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this
20   Resolution be transmitted to the Governor, the Comptroller, the
21   Attorney General, the President of the Senate, and the Senate
22   Committee on Government Operations and Housing.
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