Shortfalls?

From a few months back, this is still worth the read. Leonard Gilroy, Director of Government Performance at Reason Foundation, discusses "Closing the Budget Shortfall," over at Bacon's Rebellion.

Virginia must develop more effective tools to systematically evaluate competition and efficiency opportunities across state government.

One logical place to start is with the Commonwealth Competition Council (CCC). An independent advisory body in state government since 1995, the CCC is a bipartisan council charged with providing long-term strategic direction for privatization and competition initiatives. Over the last dozen years the CCC has done excellent work on privatization, identifying and researching a plethora of opportunities to achieve cost savings, service quality improvements, and higher
customer satisfaction.