This Manual summarizes the personnel policies and procedures that are applicable to volunteers of the Office of President-Elect’s and Vice-President-Elect’s transition team. It covers topics including personal records, ethics, safety, attendance, dress code, and confidentiality.
This memorandum details the Obama-Biden Transition Project’s policies and procedures for handling certain classes of documents from federal agencies.
This memorandum from the Agency Review Working Group to the agency review teams outlines the workplan, timelines, organization, and deliverables for the agency review teams.
This outline contains guidance to the agency review teams on how to create user’s manuals for independent regulatory agencies. The document contains sections discussing the general guidance and the 8-section outline for the user’s manuals.
Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Office of President-elect Obama and the White House establishing the relationship between the transition team and the outgoing White House. “The chief of staff and the chair of the president-elect’s transition team enter into this memorandum of understanding in order to establish an orderly process for identifying individuals charged with transition responsibilities, to ensure that the government’s and the office of the president-elect’s standards of conduct are observed, to protect the confidentiality of nonpublic government information made available to the transition team during the transition period, to preserve the constitutional, statutory and common law privileges that attach to such information in the possession of the executive branch, and to protect the confìdentiality of transition information made available to the government.”
The code of ethics details the expectations for members of the incoming Obama transition team. The document includes guidelines for accepting gifts, disclosing previous lobbying experience, disqualifications associated with conflicts of interest, and other standards of conduct expected from employees of the Transition Project.
This memorandum, by presidential transition advisors Harrison Wellford, Mirah Horowitz and Tom Shakow, details key benchmarks with which to measure a successful transition.
This Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) establishes guidelines for obtaining services and facilities made available by the General Services Administration (GSA) to the President-elect and the Vice President-elect and paid out of funds appropriated in accordance with the Presidential Transition Act of 1963, as amended.
This detailed outline from the Obama-Biden Transtion Team leadership provides guidance to the transition agency review teams for reporting their research about federal agencies. The document contains sections discussing the general purpose, audience and an eight-section outline for a standard reporting and data gathering format.
This memorandum fromthe Obama-Biden Transition Project’s OMB Transition team leader, begins specifying context and budget development plans for the transition and to identify specific budget-related tasks to ask of the post-election transition agency review teams.