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Watershed Management Bureau Reorganization: Enhancing Efficiency and Focus

The Chaos Theory Conference aims to reorganize the Watershed Management Bureau for improved efficiency, focus on crucial tasks, utilize staff skills, handle opportunities and challenges effectively, define roles, and enhance communication. The process involves staff survey, workshops, interviews, reorganization plan, implementation, monitoring, and planning.

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Watershed Management Bureau Reorganization: Enhancing Efficiency and Focus

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  1. WMB – Reorganization Process Update – January 2012

  2. Current situation • About 45 full and part-time positions. 8 – 10 interns in the summer. • 20+ programs • 12-15 funding sources • ~ 12 year history with current organization • Declining budgets, challenges ahead • Collecting less data than in past • We do a pretty good job at what we do, but we can do better.

  3. Chaos Theory Conference

  4. Purpose • To better organize the Watershed Management Bureau to gain efficiencies, better focus on mission critical tasks and to better utilized the skills and experience of WMB staff. • To be better placed to handle opportunities (eg. new grants) and challenges (eg. Federal budget cuts) without deterioration of core mission activities. • To better define the role of WMB within DES and relative to other organizations throughout the state. • To better communicate the information and products that WMB creates and houses.

  5. Process • WMB staff survey • Focus area workshops – outcomes • Outcome workshops – efficiencies and priorities • Interviews with senior leadership • Reorg plan • Implementation • Assess

  6. Focus areas • Monitoring • Planning • Outreach • Restoration/protection • Regulation Initial observations and next steps.

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