Feb

8

Use of attorneys should be examined

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As pointed out in a column in the Tulsa World over the weekend, state agencies employ about 250 attorneys other than those in the Attorney General’s Office at a cost of over $21-million dollars.  We agree that the issue needs to be looked at to determine if it is in the best interests of taxpayers to keep the current system or modify it in some way.

Considering the state’s current budget situation, every avenue of saving money needs to be explored.  Lawmakers need to ask agency heads during budget hearings how much they spend on attorneys and whether those duties could be done in a more cost-effective manner.  Of course those same questions need to be asked about purchasing, public information, human resources and every other aspect of a state agency’s budget.

If lawmakers agree that leaving $43-million in the Rainy Day Fund as the Governor proposes is a bad idea, then some serious discussions need to occur about how to cut state spending.

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