Over the past decade, Mississippi has experienced an increasing demand for public services, increasing operational costs for existing programs and services, and the need for new revenue sources. To solve these problems, elected officials and governmental managers must employ every available management technique to improve both the efficiency and effectiveness of state programs and services. The privatization of state government programs and services is one such management technique.
This report identifies potential candidates for privatization, gives fiscal year 1992 state costs for these candidates, and proposes a privatization program under the oversight of a new Joint Legislative Privatization Commission. The suggested potential candidate pool for privatization includes eighty-nine state programs and four sub-programs in thirty executive branch agencies with $631,721,344 in expenditures and approximately 23,020 full-time equivalent employees, plus twenty-two selected government-wide support services (e.g., printing, facility maintenance) at a reported cost of $314,332,656 with approximately 10,119 full-time equivalent support employees.
For a paper copy of this report, contact PEER by telephone at 601-359-1226 or by e-mail at reports@peer.ms.gov.