The White House has announced finalists for this year’s SAVE award, which is designed to encourage federal employees to submit ideas on how to make government more efficient and effective
The "SAVE Award is about fostering a culture of accountability among all federal employees, as well as tapping their first-hand knowledge of how to streamline and modernize government," said OMB.
OMB said its budget staff went through each idea submitted this year to determine what the government was already doing, what needed a closer look, and to select the four best ideas.
It has asked for public input and opened voting to anyone at www.whitehouse.gov.
Here are the four finalists:
Paul Behe, a paralegal specialist for DHS out of Cleveland, pointed out how advertising seized property online could not only tighten up advertising budgets, but also move these goods out of storage more quickly.
Marjorie Cook, a food inspector out of Gobles, Michigan, observed that while important samples need to be shipped express to be analyzed quickly for public safety, the containers they’re sent in can be sent back much less expensively.
Trudy Givens of Portage, Wisconsin is with the Bureau of Prisons and noted that the Federal Register gets printed and mailed to nearly 10,000 recipients in the federal workforce every workday, yet the Register is available online.
Thomas Koenning of Littleton, Colorado works on mine safety, and suggested having mine operators and contractors report quarterly coal production and worker hours online.
