EXECUTIVE
ORDER EO 71-01 (a)
There exists the need within state government to
facilitate unified direction and commitment in state human affairs policy.
An associated need exists to create (1) a Plan for action to bridge the gap between long range goals and
day-to-day problem solving; and (2) a clear and accurate system of
measuring progress toward goal achievement.
For these reasons, a means must be found to
fashion integrating social goals, and to involve all areas of government in coordinated human affairs planning.
By building images of a preferred future in
terms of social policies, and not specific programs, unified direction and
purpose may be given to state programs. Concomitantly, in an attempt to
determine the quality of these social policies, accurate change or progress
indices must be created.
Further, faster and more democratic methods of
social feedback need to be implemented to cope with a burgeoning flow of
information and to provide for a greater degree of citizen representative
contact. Technical information needs to be translated into valid terms of
public debate, and criteria need to be developed for adjudicating social
policies aside from specialized and often esoteric considerations.
TO THESE ENDS, THEREFORE,
I, Daniel J. Evans, Governor of the State of Washington, do hereby constitute
the Human Affairs Council as a separate program within the Office of the
Governor. This Council shall be comprised of the following:
(1) The
Human Affairs Executive Council, consisting of the following directors of state
agencies and both elected and appointed officials
The Honorable Daniel J. Evans
Governor and Chairman
Mr. George Andrews, Director
Department of Highways
Mr. John A. Biggs, Director
Department of Ecology
Mr. Byron E. Brady, Director
Office of Economic Opportunity
The Honorable Louis Bruno
Superintendent of Public Instruction
The Honorable Bert Cole
Commissioner of Public Lands
Mr. Alfred Cowles, Executive Secretary
Washington State Human Rights Commission
Mrs. Maxine Daly, Commissioner
Department of Employment Security
Mr. James M. Dolliver
Administrative Assistant to the Governor
Mr. James
Furman, Executive Coordinator
Council on Higher Education
The Honorable Slade Gorton
Attorney General
Mr. Richard W. Hemstad
Legal Assistant to the Governor
Mr. Walter C. Howe, Jr., Director
Office of Program Planning and Fiscal Management
Mr. William Jacobs, Director
Department of Labor and Industries
The Honorable A. Ludlow Kramer
Secretary of State
Mr . George Kinnear, Director
Department of Revenue
Mr. Donald Moos, Director
Department of Agriculture
Mr. John C. Mundt, Director
State Board for Community College Education
Dr. Richard H. Slavin, Director
Planning and Community Affairs Agency
Mr. Sidney E. Smith, Secretary
Department of Social and Health Services
Mr. Daniel B. Ward, Director
Department of Commerce and Economic Development
This cabinet group will concern itself with
integrated social planning on a statewide basis, and will advise the Governor
and the legislature with regard to policy recommendations;
(2) The
Human Affairs Citizen Advisory Council, representing both specific geographical
localities and social units (business and industry, labor, churches,
intellectual communities, the arts, ethnic groups, youth, etc.), which will be
divided into four regional citizens' councils. These councils will act not only
as sources of citizen response to policy proposals from the Executive Council,
but also as, stimulators of social policy planning, facilitating citizen-government
contact and allowing individuals a greater measure of self-determination;
and
(3) The
Human Affairs council Staff, under a director appointed by the Governor, which
will provide both the Executive Council and the Citizen Advisory Council with information from public and private agencies in order that costs
and benefits of proposed policies may be defined. This staff will also attempt
to monitor key social indicators, and report social progress and/or failures in terms of the specific
policy goals.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto
set my hand and caused
the seal of the State
of Washington to be
affixed at Olympia
this 1st day of July
A.D., Nineteen hundred and seventy-one.
DANIEL J. EVANS
Governor of Washington
BY THE GOVERNOR:
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Secretary of State
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