00                   HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 30                                                                   
01 Relating to the elimination or merger of departments within the executive branch of                                     
02 state government.                                                                                                       
03 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                               
04       WHEREAS the Alaska State Legislature finds that the public interest would be best                               
05 served and efficient administration would be promoted to the highest degree by                                          
06            (1)  merging the Department of Administration with the Department of                                         
07 Revenue;                                                                                                                
08            (2)  merging the Department of Corrections with the Department of Public                                     
09 Safety;                                                                                                                 
10            (3)  merging the Department of Fish and Game with the Department of Natural                                  
11 Resources; and                                                                                                          
12            (4)  eliminating the Department of Labor and Workforce Development and                                       
13 transferring its powers, functions, and duties to the Department of Community and Economic                              
14 Development; and                                                                                                        
15       WHEREAS the Alaska State Legislature finds that the public interest would be best                               
16 served and efficient administration would be promoted to the highest degree if these actions                            

01 were accomplished by July 1, 2005; and                                                                                  
02       WHEREAS the Alaska State Legislature finds that the public interest would be best                               
03 served and efficient administration would be promoted to the highest degree by the Alaska                               
04 State Legislature and the governor working together to accomplish these actions;                                        
05       BE IT RESOLVED that the Alaska State Legislature respectfully requests Governor                                 
06 Frank Murkowski to direct the preparation of proposed legislation accomplishing these                                   
07 actions and having an effective date of July 1, 2005, or earlier for the accomplishment of                              
08 these actions; and be it                                                                                                
09       FURTHER RESOLVED  that the Alaska State Legislature respectfully requests                                       
10 Governor Frank Murkowski to present this proposed legislation for introduction under                                    
11 AS 24.08.060 at or before the commencement of the First Regular Session of the Twenty-                                  
12 Fourth Alaska State Legislature.                                                                                        
13       COPIES of this resolution shall be sent to the Honorable Frank Murkowski, Governor                              
14 of Alaska; the Honorable Mike Miller, Commissioner, Department of Administration; the                                   
15 Honorable William A. Corbus, Commissioner, Department of Revenue; the Honorable Marc                                    
16 Antrim, Commissioner, Department of Corrections; the Honorable Bill Tandeske,                                           
17 Commissioner, Department of Public Safety; the Honorable Kevin C. Duffy, Commissioner,                                  
18 Department of Fish and Game; the Honorable Tom Irwin, Commissioner, Department of                                       
19 Natural Resources; the Honorable Greg O'Claray, Commissioner, Department of Labor and                                   
20 Workforce Development; and the Honorable Edgar Blatchford, Commissioner, Department of                                  
21 Community and Economic Development.