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r <br />®V -17 M7 BOOK 70 P`�u137 <br />people get bound up in their projects and they get bound up in <br />getting something accomplished, and very slowly the goal <br />justifies the mean. It is very easy to start distorting the <br />process a little bit, but not to steal or anything like that. A <br />prime example of that is when we recently hired a Personnel <br />Director, who wasn't. on board when the Board budgeted a word <br />processor for that department. Well, a word processor and a <br />computer are close, he ended up with a computer, but now he needs <br />a jet printer and there is no item for that in the budget. Now, <br />how does that get approved? You have the man on board, he has <br />been promised a piece of equipment, and you have got to do it. <br />There is nothing wrong with what you are doing, but that should <br />have come back to the Commission, but it has not. Those are the <br />day to day items that are not brought back to the Commission. <br />Director Pinto has a project and wants to get it done, Jim Davis <br />has a project and wants to get it done, and on and on, and it is <br />just so easy for these type of things to fall through the cracks <br />and never come back to the Board for approval. He believed <br />Administrator Balczun is honest and has no question with his <br />integrity. He felt it was questionable with some former adminis- <br />trators, but he emphasized that he is not slanting this at Mr. <br />Balczun. In fact, when the Board voted back in June for the OMB <br />Director to be under the Board, he voted for it long before he <br />even knew Charles Balczun. In looking back, things have not come <br />back to the Board for a variety of reasons ranging from perhaps <br />some deviousness, to some ignorance, to just not knowing the <br />process. Chairman Scurlock just wanted to try this concept for <br />this budget year, In fact, if say in 3 months, it does not work <br />out and is not providing an effective way to monitor ourselves, <br />he would be the first one to admit that it is a mistake and we <br />will go back to the way we were. <br />Commissioner Bird felt that Director Baird's workload would <br />be reduced once the new risk manager and new assistant administrator <br />42 <br />