Bureau/Division Director’s Meeting

May 25, 2005

Commissioner’s Conference Room

                                                                        

The following are points of interest that were discussed at the Bend the Curve portion of the Bureau/Division Director’s meeting on Wednesday, May 25, 2005.

 

·        Arthur Davis requested that the Budget, Metrics and Plan be put on the Agenda every three weeks.

·        Arthur led a discussion on the process of Project Management.  Directors feel they don’t have sufficient staff to do this.

·        Kim Smith led a discussion on the BTC Budget, stating expenditures through April 30, were $318,295.67, or 92% of planned budget.  Estimates for May and June are $26,000.00, leaving a projected year-end balance of $704.34.

·        BUC has realized $2M in savings through attrition.

·        Need to explore a different way to compute savings.

·        Not every Bureau has actual dollar savings, but savings in efficiencies and increased customer service.

·        The Department is down 30 positions at the present time with more coming.

·        Arthur led a discussion on the timeline of projects stating we are lagging behind in training/practice, certifying Continuous Improvement Practitioners, and developing a formal project review process.

·        Projects in process are:  developing and delivering at least 60% of the planned ELT curriculum, recognizing OIP’s new reporting relationships, reorganizing OAS, developing and implementing a plan to use the Price Waterhouse Coopers (PWC) and Barry Dunn, McNeil, Parker (BDMP) recommendations.

·        Project that is late:  Identify and assign a BDMP Implementation Project Manager

·        Three hundred thirty five employees, or over 50% of the DOL workforce, are directly involved in Value Stream activities.

·        CI-Practitioners  training will be in the next budget.

·        Some members of the steering Committee will go to Connecticut for a day to study Lean Government.