3. Establish a Cabinet-level Enterprise Board to oversee new initiatives in community empowerment. (2) In order to improve the implementation of federal domestic service delivery, the President should establish a Cabinet-level Enterprise Board. The Board would lead the federal government in a new effort to improve the coordination and integration of major domestic program service delivery initiatives. This board will be committed to solutions based on "bottom-up" initiatives and will approve large, cross-agency bottom-up grant consolidation proposals generated by state and local agencies, as well as by federal agencies. The board will be responsible for coordinating the administration's community empowerment agenda, beginning with the nine zones and 95 enterprise communities that passed Congress as part of the President's economic plan.[Endnote 5] The board will empower innovative communities by reducing red tape and regulation of federal programs. The board should be chaired by the Vice President. The Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy and Assistant to the President for Economic Policy should serve as vice-chairs. The following cabinet- level officers should serve as members of the board: Secretary of Commerce Secretary of Labor Administrator of EPA Attorney General Secretary of HUD Secretary of Education Secretary of Agriculture Secretary of HHS Secretary of the Interior Director of OMB Administrator of SBA Secretary of Transportation Secretary of Treasury Director, Office of National Drug Control Policy Chair, Council of Economic Advisors It is recommended that the board include as regular, ex-officio members, representatives of state and local government and the private non-profit sector. NPR recommends additional flexibility to give federal agency heads more discretionary authority to improve service delivery by waiving rules and regulations. This new authority also will provide additional incentives for cabinet officers to collaborate on overall improvements in service delivery. In addition to the Cabinet-level Enterprise Board, agency heads should collaborate by bringing management teams together outside of Washington, closer to the point of service delivery, and by working with their intergovernmental partners, state and local governments, to improve the service delivery system. Endnote 5. Public Law 103_66, Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act.
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