This article describes the Virginia governor's expectations for budget savings through consolidated IT spending:
"In Virginia, Democratic Gov. Mark Warner is using his personal knowledge as a former telecommunications executive to combine scores of agencies and technology divisions scattered across state government into a single Virginia Information Technologies Agency. Expected net savings: $110 million of the $902 million Virginia spends on information technology each year.
``Having been in the high-tech field in the private sector, I knew where there were areas for great savings,'' Warner recently told Stateline.org. And he's trying to spread the reorganization gospel, telling new governors from across the country:
``You're going to have to make the cuts anyway; you're going to have to make the hard choices anyway. Use this as an opportunity not just to balance your budget, but use this as an opportunity to take on some of these issues that you know in good times there won't be the political will to do.''
No comments:
Post a Comment