Governor Walker Directs Cabinet Secretaries to Meet Regularly with Frontline Workers

EXECUTIVE ORDER # 5
Relating to a Requirement that Cabinet Secretaries Meet Regularly with Frontline Workers to Identify Waste, Fraud, and Abuse

WHEREAS, reducing Wisconsin’s unsustainable tax burden requires reining in runaway government spending;

WHEREAS, regular dialogue between state workers and cabinet secretaries can increase the efficiency of state government and reduce costs;

WHEREAS, frontline state workers can provide abundant information to cabinet secretaries on more efficient ways to provide services and identify cost savings;

NOW THEREFORE, I, Scott Walker, Governor of the State of Wisconsin, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of this State do hereby require cabinet secretaries to hold regular meetings with frontline workers in order to help identify efficiencies and cost savings.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the State of Wisconsin to be affixed. Done at the Capitol in the City of Madison this fourteenth day of January, in the year two thousand eleven.

SCOTT WALKER
Governor

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Additional Note from Marty Beil, Executive Director, AFSCME Council 24;

All,

The Executive order promulgated by Scott Walker instructs each Department head to meet with their employees regarding savings and waste in their respective agencies. We would strongly encourage each of you to contact your agency’s Secretary and request such a meeting.

Please keep a log or record of the request and response to it. Please advise your Field Representative of any meeting. We would also like you to keep track if any Secretary just shows up at your worksite for this purpose and who he/she speaks to about savings and waste. There should be a Union presence at any and all of these kinds of meetings. Please keep us and your Field Rep in the loop.

Thanks,

Marty