HI SR58

Legislative Reference Bureau requested to conduct a study determining if savings can be achieved by consolidating common functions across the Department of Transportation's Highways, Harbors, and Airports Divisions

Study to examine whether planning, administration, and personnel functions can be consolidated rather than duplicated across the three divisions

Study to assess whether excess staff exist at lower-ranking clerical levels and identify obsolete positions that could be reallocated to understaffed disciplines like environmental studies and economic analysis

Legislative Reference Bureau to report findings, recommendations, and proposed legislation to the Legislature no later than twenty days before the 2011 Regular Session convenes

Study prompted by Task Force on Reinventing Government findings that Hawaii's consolidated DOT structure could allow for economies of scale through shared functions that have not been implemented to date