This memorandum from presidential transition advisors Harrison Wellford and Tom Shakow addresses financial anangements concerning the First Family. It includes discussions of the First Family’s use of presidential allowance, personal food, personal items, travel, events hosted by the White House, decorating and moving expenses.
The key to improving our federal government’s operational health is a robust management framework “a roadmap to reform” that tackles challenges from federal budgeting to the use of technology to deliver services. The centerpiece of the president’s government reform plan needs to be a strategy to restore prestige to and increase the capacity of our federal workforce.
Each aspect of the government deserves more attention, but the new president’s management framework should focus on the talented, but underutilized, civilian workforce. The goal should be clear: to improve organizational performance. Core components of an effective workforce, which foster high performance, include:
- The Right Talent
Government has the right people, from top to bottom, with the right skills to work on behalf of the American people. - An Engaged Workforce
Government employees are motivated, empowered and performing to the best of their capabilities. - Strong Leadership
Managers are able to inspire and make meaningful and credible distinctions among employees in terms of performance. - Public Support
Americans value and support federal public service and understand the importance of having good people in the federal government.
Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the campaign of Barack Obama and the Department of Justice outlining the process to provide security clearances for incoming staff. Dated October 1, 2008 before the election and pursuant to the lntelligence Reform and Terorism Prevention Act of 2004 (IRTPA).
This Obama-Biden Transition Project memorandum responds to a request for information concerning the inauguration. The author addresses the questions: How much federal funding does the Presidential Inaugural Committee receive? How are federal funds restricted? What is the recent history of private fundraising? How many people work on Inauguration?
Email chain explaining the guidelines for employment and pay of agency review team members.
This template from the Obama-Biden Transition Project details the information necessary for the creation of an agency data file, including sections on agency overview, and a list of high priority issues. The template also requires information on personnel and management; program, policy and regulatory information; and budget and management.
This memorandum provides guidence on how policy teams should write promise books, books containing the promises made by then-Senator Obama during the campaign. The memorandum covers the formatting, sources of information, what to include and citations for promise books.
The Office of Personnel Management 2009 Presidential Transition Guide provides human resources guidelines for transition teams at the time of the transition to office.
Report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) analyzing the appointment process from past political and congressional employees within 45 different agencies.
IBM Transition 2008 webpage provides four articles on the Prune Book.