Agency: Reduce costs by hiring more people
Source: BY GARY FINEOUT, Miami Herald (FL), Thu, Aug. 09, 2007
The agency responsible for helping Florida's disabled residents has come up with a novel way to cut its budget: Hire more state workers and fire the private companies that now do the work.
If the proposal is accepted by the state Legislature, it would represent a startling turnaround from the eight years under former Gov. Jeb Bush, who cut thousands of state jobs and handed the work to private vendors.
Officials with the Agency for Persons with Disabilities say that hiring state employees would in fact, save the state money.