CABINET COUNCIL ON MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION MEETING #17 AUGUST 4 1983 2:00 P.M. THE CABINET ROOM

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CABINET COUNCIL ON MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION
Meeting #17
August 4, 1983, 2:00 p.m.
The Cabinet Room
Attendees: The President, The Vice President, Meese, Regan,
Heckler, Dole, Hodel, Feldstein, Devine, Walters,
Porter, Thayer, Wright, Brown, Fuller, Rogers,
Verstandig, Bledsoe, Gibson, Sowle, Dineen, Shriver,
Baroody, Vipond, Jenkins, Cicconi
1. Administrative Remedies for Employee Misconduct (CM #321)
Mr. Meese introduced this topic as a government-wide personnel
matter for which consistency is required. Mr. Devine provided
background information, including concerns by Inspectors General
that a policy was needed. He mentioned that OPM has worked with
agencies to reach agreement on an acceptable policy statement,
since some agencies felt sample penalties were necessary, while
others opposed the idea. CCMA recommended that a sample table of
penalties accompany a Federal Personnel Manual polic~~.etter to
be issued by OPM.
Action: The President approved issuance of an FPM letter with a
sa- m~ table of penalties.
2. Awards for Non-Career SES Members (CM #374)
Mr. Meese pointed out that CCMA has discussed and recommended
that non-career Senior Executive Service members not be included
in agency performance bonus systems. Instead, a non-cash awards
system is proposed consisting of a Presidential. Executive
Leadership Award and a Presidential Executive Leadership Award,
With Distinction. Mr. Devine reviewed the development of the
proposed program and its major features. These include the use
of an outside panel to make the selections which would be
recommended to the President, and an appropriate expression of
recognition. The President said that some imagination should be
used in what we present to the award recipients. SecY-etary Regan
suggested that a framed citation is appropriate.
Action: The President approved the program.
3. Procurement Reform - Non-Competitive Procurement I;CM #207)
This topic was introduced by Mr. Meese as important in light of
recent criticisms of government procurement practices. Mr.
Wright said that about one-third of the $180 billion spent on
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Federal purchases is done under non-competitive circumstances.
In January, 1983, CCMA reviewed the work on the Federal
Acquisition Regulation effort (the Presldent COTiiTi2rit2d M at ther2
are still over 30,000 pages of regulations to read), a:nd DOD, GSA
and OMB were directed to reach agreement on an approach to
increasing competition in procurement. Mr. Sowle outlined the
contents of the proposed letter, including the circumstances
under which non-competitive procurements would be authorized.
Secretary Dole supported issuance of the letter and agreed that
departments should be permitted to achieve goals using their own
management approaches. Mr. Thayer asked that awards to minority
business firms be referenced. Mr. Sowle pointed out that this is
covered by statute and thus is included. Mr. MeesE~ suggested
this be specifically stated in the section on statutory
non-competitive procurement.
Action: The President approved issuance of the OFPP letter, with
the modification that specifies inclusion of minority business
firms in statutorily related circumstances.
4. Cash Management
Secretary Regan introduced Ms. Dineen and Mr. ShrivE~r, who are
Treasury assistant secretaries for fiscal and electronic systems,
respectively. He presented information about managerent of the
government's money, and opportunities and benefits for savings.
He described the average daily cash flow, and payment and
collections methods and volumes. He identified sources of $4.6
billion in cash management savings "already put in the bank,"
since January, 1981, and discussed action plans for an additional
$6.0 billion in cash acceleration by FY 1985, and $5.3 billion in
interest savings by FY 1988.
Secretary Regan mentioned that banks will work with us on
improving our cash management practices, and requestE~d that the
President issue a directive asking all departments and agencies
to support this effort.
Action: The President approved issuance of a directive
indicating that this be assigned top priority. Agencies are to
work with Treasury and OMB in implementing cash management
improvements.
5. PPSSCC (CM #313)
Mr. Fuller provided a status report on the President's Private
Sector Survey on Cost Control, indicating that we have received
38 task force reports, containing over 2,236 recommendations.
Several reports have been reviewed with agencies and we can
already claim successes in that many recommendations are a part
of the FY 1985 budget process. By Fall, over half of the
recommendations should be reviewed. Some difficulties are being
encountered in agreement on the amount of dollar savings which
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are possible, but every effort is being made to a~~hieve the
amounts suggested by the 163 chief executive officers, and 1,600
top executives who worked on the Survey.
The President asked that agencies, OMB and OPD look closely at
the recommendations, as this different point of view could be
very beneficial.
Mr. Meese commented that the Administration, through the
President's involvement and the CCMA, is indeed managing the
government to a much greater extent than it has ever been
managed. The President expressed his satisfaction with the
meeting and the accomplishments discussed.
The meeting adjourned at 2:55 p.m.
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