Preliminary plans have been submitted by state departments on how they'll cut 10 percent from their budgets after Governor Culver's across-the-board reduction.
Take a look at the plans here and tell us what you think. Are the cuts coming in the right places? Are some areas where cuts could be made being ignored? Let us know...
*the 10 percent across-the-board cuts do not include state-wide elected officials or the Judicial and Legislative branches
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Having worked for the Dept. of Human Services many years, I believe that some of their cuts are in the wrong place. First decreasing the current number of service areas by at least 2 service areas would reduce approximately 8-15 high level administrative positions. It is these positions that provide salaries of 80-120,000 per staff person. Many administrators are dependent on the work of lower level staff to secure their statistics and provide them with their input per each service area.
Second: By utilizing clerical staff more effectively, social workers could more effectively meet the needs of clients. Currently much of the work done by social workers approximately 65-75% is paperwork, statistic keeping. Consequently social workers are not able to be out in the field ensuring safety for Iowa's neediest citizens- abuse, neglected, disabled children and adults. The social workers and income maintenance workers depend heavily on IT support which appears to being cut back which will further delay payments to clients, computer issues that delay reports to court resulting in delayed judgements on critical child abuse cases.
eliminate many management positions. especially when a lot of them goes to meetings everyday that results in nothing. I used to be a state worker and now I'm happy I'm not. You wouldn't believe all the waste in taxpayers' dollars that goes on there.
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