Although the Fiscal Management Board and the Library Commission have some oversight authority, no coordinated and effective system exists for monitoring state agency production of publications or the costs incurred in agency publishing. State agencies do not account for all the costs of publications production. Some have no coordinating person with agency-wide knowledge of publications produced.
There are indications of significant but unmeasurable waste and inefficiency in agency publications production. This report suggests systems to enable agencies to control and account for the costs of publications. The report also proposes legislation to create a system of statewide publications oversight, monitoring, and accounting.
For a paper copy of this report, contact PEER by telephone at 601-359-1226 or by e-mail at reports@peer.ms.gov.