The Governor’s Advisory Council on Privatization and Innovation held its first public meeting today in the Rachel Carson State Office Building in order to delegate certain tasks and to take in a presentation from the former mayor of Indianapolis as well as Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels’ Deputy Chief of Staff. Council Chairman Jack Barbour began the meeting by noting the panel will mostly spend its time focusing on innovation and increasing efficiency in state government, with privatization (particularly public-private-partnerships) taking only a minor role in the advisory council’s activities. 

Barbour explained the job of the group is to take a broad approach to implement ideas regarding how to reform state government so as to cut costs and bring a private sector mentality to government operations. He said projects where innovation and greater efficiency can be quickly and easily implemented will be rooted out by subgroups of the entire council meeting with assigned cabinet secretaries in order to determine what they have found can be reformed after their first year on the job. He formed six different subgroups, all to be managed by the governor’s Secretary of Planning and Policy, Jen Brandsetter.

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