2011 Inaugural Address By The Honorable Sebastian L. Anefal ...

• Introduced performance management and strategic planning to improveaccountability and productivity of expenditures;• Began assessment for a re-organized Executive Branch to eventuallystreamline government operations;• Developed a cost reduction plan to help reduce operating expenditures;and• Continued retirement process and hiring restrictions of governmentemployees to further reduce operating expenditures.To expand our revenue base, we –• Strengthened our revenue collection efforts by focusing resources onrevenue generating activities to improve compliance;• Engaged in a nation-wide tax reform process and expanded user feescollection to help recover some of the costs of providing certain publicservices; and• Set out to identify and began formulating grant proposals secureexternal assistance to help us build the foundation for future growth.Our efforts to strengthen our economy and to put ourselves on a sustainablegrowth path were made more challenging by a number of unprecedentedexternal events that negatively impacted all of us. As I mentioned earlier, webegan in the aftermath of a dark cloud from the Financial Crisis, which had amajor effect on the growth of our private sector, and therefore on our revenuestream.7