Public Printer Gets Favorable Committee Vote, Testifies at Hearings
“At the same time, I found an agency where overhead costs had mushroomed by 50 percent in the past five years. I found an agency top heavy with senior-level managers, some of whom spent what was in my opinion an excessive amount of time on travel, including an astonishing amount of travel overseas...And there was a growing volume of uncollected bills to Federal agencies that GPO seemed unable to resolve. This pattern of excessive spending and costs was simply unsustainable.”
To begin addressing these problems, Boarman said, “we cut our appropriations request for FY 2012 by more than $5 million from what was originally submitted to OMB late last year. We cut GPO's annual spending plan as previously submitted to the Joint Committee on Printing by $15 million. We reduced the number of senior-level managers. We implemented controls on hiring, travel, and related discretionary accounts to stem the flow of spending in these areas...We created a task force to recover outstanding payments from Federal agencies...We worked with the appropriations committees to resolve our funding for FY 2011 at about $135.1 million. This is a significant reduction from the continuing level of $147.4 million and a far cry from the $166.6 million requested by previous GPO management a year ago.”