SAVE Award 2011 Ideas

Act on Paul Light's idea of hiring one senior person, grade 13 and above for every two who leave government service and hiring two below GS 12 staff for every one who leaves. This will trim the excess Federal staffing at the upper levels.

There are likely to be a number of unfilled vacancies because of budget cuts, but the job still needs to be done. Cross training provides job expansion and emergency relief. I still have seasonal downtime which may allow me to assist another agency or office whether day by day or a week at a time. We must all be flexible. I came from INS which was broken into three units but remain competent in any of the areas. One can... more »

I recommend consolidating the USPHS into the US Navy (similiar to the Marine structure where they would fall UNDER the US Navy but remain a separate branch of service). They could be utilized at any DOD branch, all other government branches and some VA hospitals.

I feel that USPHS can be better utilized and with a more structured chain of command, better billet availability to ANY government branch, and expand service... more »

FEMA utilizes several disaster reservist as community relations staff to provide surviors of disasters contact information to register for assistance and to perform clerical, warehouse or logistics staff work as local hires. Recommend that FEMA conduct a cost benifit and business case analysis to see if utilizing the State Labor Department's Unemployment Office as a "temp service" to fill these positions. This would... more »