January 16, 2013 - Texas Workforce Commission

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1 MR. BABIAK: I've inquired of staff how
2 the -- the schedule and the six-year cycle was
3 created. There is nobody remaining at -- at CRD who
4 was employed when that schedule was created, and the
5 belief among remaining staff is that all of the
6 organizations subject to review, which includes state
7 agencies and institutions of higher education were
8 simply compiled into one big list, divided into six
9 portions, and that's how the schedule was created.
10 One of our challenges right now is to
11 track agencies that are abolished and agencies that
12 are created. I believe that the Texas Department of
13 Motor Vehicles was created in 2009, and just last year
14 we incorporated them into the schedule. And I have
15 communicated with Governmental Relations staff to make
16 them aware that, in addition to everything else that
17 they track when they are tracking bills, an additional
18 item that needs to be tracked is state agencies being
19 created and state agencies being abolished. I don't
20 think that they knew why that would matter to us in
21 our policy review work, and I've explained it to them.
22 And it is something that they track now.
23 CHAIRMAN ANDERSON: I -- I go on with
24 that, and I think the other Commissioners do, too. I
25 think there needs to be a review or at least an