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enacted only part of the first part of Brown's plan, to create four so-called "super-agencies" (of eight then planned) headed by secretaries to reduce the number of Cabinet-level direct reports to the governor. (The hyphen was later dropped and they are now called
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in 1961 into a plan for a dramatic reorganization of the state government. Brown's massive plan touched off an equally massive uproar, and he was unable to get his plan enacted all at once as a single package. That year, the
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and went back to the assembly for a vote to concur in the senate's minor amendments to the bill, which Marks indicated would follow in due course. By September, Governor Brown had signed the bill into
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filed a report recommending the creation of a Department of General Services, Governor Brown formally asked the state legislature to create such a department, and in March,
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This proposal was one of several long-running reform ideas floating around Sacramento since the late 1930s which were consolidated by Governor
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into a single agency, to be called the Department of General Services. The purpose of this proposal was "to reduce the staggering
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involved in the present practice of maintaining these functions separately in each State administrative agency".
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Gillam, Jerry (October 1, 1961). "Brown Picks 8-Member Cabinet: Four Named to Head New State Super-Agencies".
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introduced a bill to that effect in the state assembly. By June, the bill had cleared the
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Blanchard, Robert (February 14, 1961). "Brown Criticized for His Super-Agency Proposal".
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Harris, Robert E.G. (January 9, 1952). "Plenty of Government, but It's Hard to Locate".
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Gillam, Jerry (March 22, 1963). "Bill to Create State Service Dept. Offered".
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and had started to appoint officials to positions in the new department.
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San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission
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