Tough budget times tends to foster talk of either (1) combining agencies to merge and diminish administrative costs, or (2) splitting up agencies, the better to search for efficiencies which might more easily be hidden away in larger organizations.
Which is right? Hard to say; and it probably varies by agency. But there are plenty of efforts around the Northwest to seriously consider one or the other.
This thought prompted by a proposal to split the Washington Department of Social & Health Services into two. Or four. Depending on which legislator you’re talking to . . .
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