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NC legislature dissolves nonpartisan unit that targeted waste, fraud and abuse Lucille Sherman, The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.) Feb. 17—RALEIGH — The North Carolina legislature's nonpartisan division tasked with evaluating the efficiency and effectiveness of public services is being dissolved, Republican leaders confirmed after a former staffer broke the news on Twitter this week. The nearly 15-year-old unit said to have saved the state millions, known as the Program Evaluation Division, has more than a dozen staffers. They will be replaced by partisan staff tasked with similar duties in the coming weeks. Legislative leaders did not say whether staff would be laid off or transferred.
GOP leaders: NC legislature watchdog agency to be shuttered RALEIGH (AP) — The North Carolina General Assembly’s state government watchdog agency will soon be shuttered, according to the offices of the legislature’s Republican leaders. State law created the nonpartisan Program Evaluation Division in 2007, making North Carolina’s legislature one of the last in the country to create such an office. The division, monitored by an oversight committee of legislators who directs the agency’s work, has issued scores of reports over the years that located wasteful spending and recommended efficiencies. A Feb. 8 division report projected the state could save up to $2 million annually if its mobile devices and services were better managed.
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The findings by the division, which employs more than a dozen researchers and other staff, were not always embraced by committee members and the agencies who were targeted. Other committee members praised the division‘s work. Spokespeople for Senate leader Phil Berger and House Speaker Tim Moore said this week that the General Assembly wanted to use other bipartisan oversight methods to address agency accountability. Leadership “is evaluating its current oversight functions to improve outcomes and remove duplicative processes. By reinvigorating an existing bipartisan process, the General Assembly will have greater flexibility to examine issues in a more timely and efficient manner,” Berger spokeswoman Lauren Horsch wrote in an email.