| # | Name of Initiative | Summary Description | Department | Page | Revenue Savings or Productivity | Strategy | FY2005 Impact | FY2006 Impact | FY2007 Impact | FY2008 Impact | FY2009 Impact | Total Impact | Approval Authority |
| 160 | Reconfigure County-ECC Sponsorship Arrangement, Gradually Eliminating County Subsidy | Over a four-year period, transfer County assets to ECC, provide labor savings through successful collective bargaining strategy and/or wage freeze, and amend State Education Law, reducing increasing levels of County operating subsidy until elimination by FY2009 | ECMCC | Savings | Realign Services | $0 | $0 | $3,400,000 | $6,400,000 | $9,400,000 | $19,200,000 | S | |
| 161 | Eliminate Debt Service Subsidy for ECMCC as Part of Sale/Merger to New Entity | Apply Commission or other approach to eliminate the County's debt service requirements to the ECMCC, in addition to the operating subsity, freeing ECMCC to operate separate from County affiliation | ECMCC | Savings | Realign Services | $0 | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | S | |
| 162 | Reduce the Cost of Government Regulations and Compliance | While there are significant costs associated with private compliance with government mandates and regulations, the public sector is also constrained by rules and regulations that consume resources and hamper government's ability to respond quickly and effectively to challenges. Recently, the State of Iowa developed an innovative approach that reduced administrative rules and regulations for agencies and departments in return for reduced levels of appropriations or a requirement that the departments and agencies produced additional cost recovery. This approach, which won an Ashe Innovation in Government award, was viewed by the Kennedy School of Government as a "broadly replicable" initiative that "has produced a myraid of concrete results..." | Div of Budget, Management & Finance | Savings | Process Improvement | $0 | $0 | $2,310,000 | $3,540,000 | $4,833,000 | $10,683,000 | S |