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I'm at the Office of Personnel Management right now, where director John Berry has just announced an innovation: OPM is going to become the first government agency to put its proposed strategic plan online for public and employee comment, and will make discussions among commenters easy for the public to read. I'm not sure how many comments the agency will get from the truly general public, but it is an attempt by Berry to make what OPM does more transparent to observers. And judging from the reporters at his event at a food bank this morning who didn't seem sure what OPM was, or even exactly what the agency's name was, the bar for existing public knowledge is pretty low.
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Great idea! OPM is an important government agency and let US know when the url to the plan is available. Also since the old Civil Service Commission was broken into three (3) parts under President James Earl Carter hoping that the MSPB and Office of Special Counsel will do the same.
William R. Cumming Posted Wednesday, July 29, 2009 6:17 AMThe Railroad Retirement Board has placed its draft strategic plan on the agency website for public review and comment during the last three planning cycles (2003, 2006 and 2009). The current draft was posted about 3 weeks ago.
Bruce Rodman Posted Wednesday, July 29, 2009 8:39 AMContrary to the statement, the Department of Housing and Urban Development has posted at least its last two strategic plans on the web for 30-day public comment periods. With the stakeholder consultation requirements in the Government Performance and Results Act, I would be surprised if other agencies have not done so as well.
Barry Steffen Posted Wednesday, July 29, 2009 9:17 AMYou sure they are the first?
http://www.archives.gov/about/plans-reports/strategic-plan/2009/nara-strategic-plan-2006-2016-update.html
open gov Posted Wednesday, July 29, 2009 9:44 AMWell even if OPM is not really the first to do this it may just be a move in the right direction. For the last 8 years I thought they (OPM) had actually shut down.
Jim Johnson Posted Wednesday, July 29, 2009 7:28 PMWhile other agencies have undoubtedly posted draft plans for public comment, I wonder if the OPM's new angle on this is making any received comments publicly accessible. I do not recall seeing anything along those lines before, including at my own agency.
Bruce Rodman Posted Thursday, July 30, 2009 8:45 AM