SAVE Award 2011 Ideas

The Bureau of Prisons regional offices could be easily re-structured with re-assignment of regional office staff to component institutions throughout each region. The reorganized regional staff would be collateral duty positions to their institution positions. Duties could easily and affordably be performed through web-conferencing, user to user webcam calls, and so forth. The mission of the regional offices would... more »

There are already a few ideas to consolidate regional offices, but I would like to encourage the EPA to move their regional offices and house them with state DEQ offices. I think would provide for increased opportunities for collaboration. Rather than housed in 1 office for 6 or 7 states, we could move the staff to several states, and support our state offices without increasing our budget and fixed costs.

Each year the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) spends a large sum of money on centralized training, sending hundreds of employees to sites across the nation for weeks at a time. These trips cost an exorbitant amount of money because each trainee is provided with airfare, a hotel room, and per diem. Additionally, training staff is often brought in from stations across the country to conduct the training, also requiring... more »

Any governmental agency with regioal offices should look at the feasibility of combining into fewer regions thus saving the overhead cost.

Recommend to schedule, process, and manage virtually (via “Virtual Docket”) all Veterans hearings that are requested before the Board of Veterans’ Appeals (BVA). Currently the BVA processes over 18,500 hearings annually.

The anticipated cost saving for the government is an estimate three million dollars.

The BVA relies upon the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) 57 Regional Offices (ROs) to schedule BVA Video and... more »