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Civil Service Directors Report
Two-year Progress
In the July,' 1947, issue o f /th e
Public Personnel Review, William G.
Colman, form er. director, and Robert
R. Johnson, present director, have cöj-
laborated in the^ presentation of a Re­
port ön the Oregon Civil Service A ct
as/ administered during its inception and
in the following two-year interim.
I t/is ' not w ith in 'th e scope of this
magazine be reprint in full the text
of this report, pbut parts of it are of
special interest to us Eas -initiators and
sponsors of the Act.,, We may gain a
clearer insight into the problems which
confronted the administrators of the
Act, their basic thought concerning
goals, Ideals and intents, their method
of approach, etc. W ithout further com­
ment, we reprint excerpts from the re­
port?
and extensive governmental services to
its citizens.
Structurally, Oregon is characterized,
by a ‘'weak executive?,'form of govern­
ment. Under the constitution, there is
a definite philosophy of separation and.
dilution of power, not only among the
three branches of government, but w ith­
in the executive branch itself. For ex-
a m p !^ the governor, the secretary of
state and the state treasurer' comprise
a ‘state board, of control’; this board,
not the governor alone, exercise super­
vision over many functions of general
state administration.. The functions of
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Political, Legislative and
Administrative Background
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Politically, Oregon is aco'nservative
State. A t the sam erim e, the state’s ap­
proach to many social and economic
problems has been /markedly progressive.
The state , renders unusually intensive
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