CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION SEMINAR 321

gan what we call the Task Force on Modern Management. The task
force is charged with the analysis of each department, agency, com-
mission and institution for these purposes, to determine the validity
of each unit's existence in terms of its effectiveness and meeting the
original objectives for which it was established. You'd be surprised
at how many agencies were established for purposes that have since
ceased to exist, but the agency continues. The task force was created
to develop measures of costs, production, effectiveness and efficiency
for each program; to justify and rejustify each unit's existence in the
present operation of government, in terms of its current and long-
range objectives, and its proper role in the total scope of State ad-
ministration; to expose inefficiency, waste or duplication in the present
operation; and last, to recommend administrative, legislative or or-
ganizational change to rectify the problem. This, basically, is how
the executive branch of government is presently evolved. I won't
take your time to indicate any proposed solutions to these problems,
because I understand that's not my purpose today. My purpose today
is to give you, as succinctly as I can, a briefing of how things are pres-
ently being handled in the executive office, and also, of course, a re-
view of present law. Those of you who are in the Legislature, those
of you who are experienced lawyers who have been through the Con-
stitution many times, have probably found it somewhat ponderous,
but many of you may not have heard of these constitutional provisions
which I have attempted to outline today.

I think that, as you enter upon your very arduous duties, you will
undoubtedly find that you have original thoughts and suggestions
which may not pertain to the Constitution itself, but which may be
extremely helpful in the actual implementation of the executive re-
sponsibilities. If you do, I can only tell you that I'd be most grateful
to you if you will bring those suggestions to my attention. Regardless
of whether they fit into the Convention, if they're going to streamline
and make more efficient and effective the discharge of my executive
functions, I am most interested in hearing about them.

Again, I commend you for your interest. I sympathize with you for
what I know is to be a most difficult task, but I'm glad we have people
like you around who are willing to do it. Thanks very much.