Sounds like the NYS budget process (20 years consistenly late, and getting
later every year, for you non-NYers).

- Pam
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From: "Cuyler Page" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 19:17
Subject: Re: [BP] Rocky transition


> > I had imagined a transition in which I would have some time to study the
> > office,
>
> The standard line from the Provincial government bureaucrats I used to
deal
> with in here BC whenever a change was made at the political level, "It
will
> take six months or so until the new man is up to speed on all the issues.
> Until then nothing will change."  About six months later there would be a
> political Cabinet shuffle with a new Minister responsible for the Branch,
> and the bureaucrats would say "It will take about six months until the new
> man is up to speed on all the issues.   Until then nothing will change."
> Any studies or new programs being advanced would be quietly put aside
> whenever a shuffle happened, awaiting the time until the new guy was again
> up to speed.   Year after year after year, nothing ever changed at the
> bureaucratic level, only the politicians in charge.   In charge of what, I
> used to wonder, since they were always asking the bureaucrats for advice
> (until they were "up to speed").
>
> cp in bc
>
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