Posted on Sun, Jan. 07, 2007

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Letting the fox guard the henhouse

If the above irony was not enough, The Buzz points readers toward page 20 of the Sanford budget’s executive summary.

Here, the governor lays out the Central State Travel Division, one of his many restructuring proposals designed to save the state a total of $19 million a year and make agencies more accountable.

The new agency would coordinate state travel costs and review existing policies, such as double-bunking state employees in hotels and operating the fleet of state cars and trucks. Such an office, Sanford estimates, would save $824,000 a year.

Oddly, Sanford places the agency under the control of the comptroller general’s office, whose current occupant took a state minivan to Minnesota on vacation and initially paid for the trip with a state-issued gasoline card before repaying the money.