In Massachusetts, Lawmakers Want to Create a <i>New</i> Board to Eliminate Useless Boards

Massachusetts is plagued with unnecessary state boards, and hundreds of seats on them are going unfilled. Now, some lawmakers have brainstormed a fix that would warm the heart of any shrewd bureaucrat: create another board to eliminate boards.

 

The lawmakers have filed legislation proposing to create a “sunset advisory board” that would issue recommendations, including whether to dissolve some state boards, such as those that have been termed “zombies” because they go years without even meeting.

 

 

“I was looking for a vehicle to have these things end,” said state Senator Cynthia S. Creem of Newton, who filed the bill after overseeing a Senate committee that reviewed the issue last year.