EXECUTIVE ORDER EO 88-01
ESTABLISHING THE GOVERNOR'S COMMITTEE
ON WASHINGTON'S FINANCIAL FUTURE
State and local taxes and spending significantly impact
Washington's business climate and the public interest. The state's financial
future requires a thorough review and analysis of state and local taxes and
spending. To evaluate the present system and proposed alternatives, a committee
is needed to identify and develop basic principles, values and long-range
financial goals for our state. The committee will encourage public
awareness and participation in the development of those principles, values and
goals and in the evaluation of a variety of alternatives. Committee members
will use a process which leads to reform that is in the best interest of
Washington citizens. The committee will submit reports and findings to the
Governor and Legislature for consideration. The purpose of the process utilized
by the Committee is to set the foundation on which legislative consideration of
complex tax and spending issues can successfully reach a conclusion within the
limitations of the 1989 regular session.
NOW,
THEREFORE, I, Booth Gardner, Governor of the
State of Washington, do hereby establish the Governor's Committee on
Washington's Financial Future, as follows:
A. The Committee shall be composed of not more
than 19 members appointed by the Governor. The director of the Department of
Revenue and the director of the Office of Financial Management will serve as co-chairs.
A majority of the Committee shall constitute a quorum and a majority of
members present can approve Committee action. The co-chairs; shall
appoint an executive director from the staff of the Department of Revenue to
attend all Committee meetings and perform such duties as the Committee shall
direct.
B. The Committee shall be
non-partisan with members representing large and small businesses, local
government, agriculture, labor, and private citizens. Expenses for members may
be reimbursed pursuant to state law.
C. The Committee may
establish advisory, technical and work groups as necessary to carry out the
work of this Order.
D. The
Committee's responsibility will be to:
1. Review
Washington's current state and local financial structure, including the tax
system, expenditure controls and tax rates, and review previous proposals,
including findings of the state Tax Advisory Council.
2. Identify
and develop basic principles, values and long-range financial
goals to help evaluate the present system and consider alternatives
proposed to the Committee.
3. Ensure public awareness and
participation in developing principles, values and goals, and in considering
alternatives developed by and/or presented to the Committee.
4. Regularly report findings, data and
information to the Governor and the Legislature and make its reports public.
5. Select a variety of potential tax and
spending control measures to be considered by the Governor and the Legislature
in late 1988 and 1989.
E. The Committee will be
administered through the Department of Revenue with staff support from the
Department of Revenue and the Office of Financial Management. The Committee
shall have the authority to accept support and assistance, or receive gifts,
grants, endowments or bequests as may be made to or provided from state
agencies or other public/private sources for the use and benefit of the
purposes of the Committee and to expend the same, or any income therefrom,
according to any conditional terms.
F. The Governor's Committee on Washington's Financial Future
created by t his Executive Order shall complete its responsibilities
by November 30, 1988, and will automatically cease functioning and be disbanded
on December 1, 1988.
G. This Executive Order is effective
immediately.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto
set my hand and caused the seal of the State
of Washington to be affixed at Olympia
this 5th day of April A.D., Nineteen hundred and eighty-eight.
BOOTH GARDNER
Governor of Washington
BY THE GOVERNOR:
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Secretary of State
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