{"id":2357,"date":"2007-03-21T16:09:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-21T21:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinbryant.com\/2007\/03\/21\/transportation-bill-gutted-2\/"},"modified":"2007-03-21T16:09:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-21T21:09:00","slug":"transportation-bill-gutted-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/transportation-bill-gutted-2\/","title":{"rendered":"transportation bill gutted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday February 14th the Transportation Committee passed a bill with sweeping reforms. The bill gives me the impression that the department should be run more like a business and therefore more efficient. It has been said &#8220;we need more business in government and less government in business.&#8221;  In the real world, businesses operate on a \u201cperform or else\u201d standard. Small businesses are so efficient because they can make necessary changes very quickly. One reason government, especially the current DOT, is so inefficient is that change is very slow.  The original bill creates a state board that chooses the projects and priorities.  Also, it defines the director as being an \u201cat will\u201d gubernatorial appointment.  The director serves at direct accountability to the governor.  This issue is where the <em>real <\/em>reform rests.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, March 21, the bill was amended to define the director of transportation as an \u201cat will\u201d by the board not the governor.  The board is appointed by the Governor with a huge catch.  The Senate confirms these appointments as in the Santee Cooper board.  We&#8217;ve seen problems with the confirmation process.<\/p>\n<p>In my perspective real reform would define the director as a gubernatorial \u201cat will\u201d appointment.  After the bill was gutted, I see no real reform; therefore, I can no longer support the bill.  Hopefully, we will revert back to the committee&#8217;s recomendations for <em>real <\/em>reform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday February 14th the Transportation Committee passed a bill with sweeping reforms. The bill gives me the impression that the department should be run more like a business and therefore more efficient. It has been said &#8220;we need more business in government and less government in business.&#8221; In the real world, businesses operate on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2357","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gEQ0-C1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}