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Promote regulatory innovation. To achieve
greater cost effectiveness and use of technology,
agencies and local governments should
annually share their regulatory innovations,
consistent with the Wisconsin Idea.
Promote professional development. To keep
staff current with technical trends, agencies
should do a better job of staff training and professional
development.
Facilitate regulatory coordination and reorganization.
To better address the world as it
exists, agencies should be less turf protective
and set up mechanisms developed within
agencies and between agencies to facilitate integration
and cooperation. The initiative
should have carrots and sticks, as the private
sector complained vigorously about lack of
intra- and interagency coordination and turf
protection.
Create an integrated permitting system. To
provide better service to businesses, landowners
and local governments, consider creating
an integrated permitting system that will provide
those who need permits “one stop shopping,”
either through the information superhighway
or in walk-in state and local government
permit centers, such as the consolidated
job centers that already exist.
Consolidate agency field offices and train personnel.
To provide uniform and informed answers
and decisions to local governments, businesses
and citizens, state agencies should consider
consolidating offices and enhance training
of field staffs. Other means to provide uniform
service might be through the information
superhighway.
Create an electronic system for rule development
and administration. To eliminate considerable
waste, transform the rule process to
electronic by the 2001 biennium. Implementation
should accomplish greater public input
and processing efficiency. Rules’ electronic
homes should eventually include digitized visual
and adjudication guidance to inform the
regulated, the Legislature, the bureaucrats and
enforcement personnel.
21.19
Use environmental auditing as a tool to prevent
problems. To develop a more preventive
and user friendly approach to environmental
protection, the state should transfer regulatory
energy from focusing on detailed form processing
to facilitating comprehensive environmental
audits for businesses and governments.
Audits would generally result in corrective, not
enforcement action.
GOAL #22: JUDICIAL BRANCH
22.1
Courts should plan for the future as do other
branches of government. To better plan for
the future, the court system should look to
future needs, have a vision and plan what the
system should look like in the next century.
The planning process should involve more
than just “officers of the court,” however, and
meaningfully involve the people as equals.
22.2
The court system should embrace technology
for efficiency and service. To achieve significant
savings, the courts and the entire law enforcement
system should become electronic
in function and culture. In doing so, the legal
profession should initiate a cleansing of statutes
and procedures predicated upon outdated
procedural practices that have little to do with
justice in a high-tech age.
22.3
Address artificial barriers that discourage efficiency.
To end the same inefficient, turf-protective
practices that affect other branches, the
courts should conduct an examination of the
management, financial and jurisdictional system
and make recommendations of consequence.
Failing that, the Legislature should do
it.
22.4
Examine the concept of responsibilities with
rights. To give balance in a system focused on
rights over responsibilities, the legal profession,
a defender of rights, should lead a dialogue on
community rights that incur individual responsibilities.
This dialogue might be in tandem
with the discussion about a Bill of Responsibilities
(see Preamble). The dialogue also may
involve the question, as applied to Wisconsin,
whether the law is replacing morality as guiding
behavior.
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