WE ROUTINELY GET complaints about how this program or that program is operated, about waste here or there or suggestions about how things could be done more efficiently or productively in state government. The complaints and suggestions, which come from regular citizens and state employees, also make the rounds among legislators and other officials. Like us, most of those officials usually don't see much they can do with the information they've been given.

The governor hopes to change that. On Thursday, his Commission on Management, Accountability and Performance posted online surveys designed to collect those complaints and suggestions from state employees and ordinary citizens.

The MAP Commission is trying to do a lot of work in a short amount of time, so it can't follow up on every single suggestion it receives. But without those suggestions, it could very well miss some of the most promising leads for accomplishing its mission: finding ways our state government can do what it is currently trying to do in a more efficient way. (The governor is using a separate exercise to try to determine which things the government shouldn't be doing at all.)

So if you've got suggestions, keep sending them to us and to your elected officials. But also, take a few minutes to let the MAP Commission in on the information. The surveys are at http://www.myscgov.com/. The problems confronting our state are big enough that solving them will take all the smart ideas all of us have.