Department of Commerce - Iowa Utilities Board, Performance Report, Performance Results Achieved for Fiscal Year 2004, December 2004

The FY04 Performance Report for the Iowa Utilities Board (IUB) highlights the services the IUB provided to Iowans, along with results achieved to ensure utility service reliability and to improve and expand utility service infrastructure in Iowa. This information is provided in accordance with the State of Iowa Accountable Government Act, Iowa Code chapter 8E. The two basic business functions of the IUB are utility regulation and compliance, and resource management. This report covers performance information for both of these areas.

Iowa Lottery Annual Report Fiscal Year 2004

Iowa Lottery Authority Annual Report, Fiscal Year 2004

IOWAccess Annual Report Fiscal Year, 2004

Annual report for Department of Adminstrative Services

Division of Workers' Compensation Regulatory Plan for State Fiscal Year, 2005

This plan is intended to implement Governor Vilsack’s Executive Order Number 9, V, signed September 14, 1999. This plan provides the Division of Workers’ Compensation anticipated regulatory actions for potential rule making activity for State Fiscal Year 2005, which began July 1, 2004, and thereafter.

Iowa Commission on Volunteer Service, Fiscal Year 2005 Annual Report

Annual Report

The political economy of childcare in OECD countries : Explaining cross-national variation in spending and coverage rates

If childcare policy has become topical in most OECD countries over the last ten years or so, actual developments display huge cross-national variations. Countries like Sweden and Denmark spend around 2 per cent of GDP on this service, and provide affordable childcare places to most children below school age. At the other extreme, in Southern Europe, only around 10 per cent of this age group has access to formal daycare. Against this background, this article aims to account for cross-national variations in childcare services. It distinguishes two dependent variables: the coverage rate and the proportion of GDP spent subsidising childcare services. Using a mix of cross-sectional and pooled times-series methods, it tests a series of hypotheses concerning the determinants of the development of this policy. Its main conclusion for the coverage rate is that key factors are public spending and wage dispersion (both positive). For spending, key factors are the proportion of women in parliaments (positive) and spending on age-related policies (negative).

Bureaucracy and the flypaper effect : Evidence from intercommunal fiscal equalisation in the canton of Vaud

Unlike classical theoretical expectations, our empirical study shows that financial transfers to decentralised governments increase local public expenditures much more than would be triggered by an equivalent rise in local income. This empirical evidence of the presence of a flypaper effect is achieved using panel data from 375 municipalities located in the Swiss canton of Vaud covering the period 1994 to 2005. During that time there was a major change in the financial equalisation scheme. Furthermore, our study confirms the analysis of the public choice theory: the effect depends partly on the degree of complexity of the municipal bureaucracy. These results show that local bureaucratic behaviour may impede the effectiveness of a financial equalisation scheme that aims to reduce disparities in local tax.

Quand la peur des dépenses incite au gaspillage humain et financier [When the fear of spending incites a human and financial waste!]

Dans les années 80, la crainte de la pléthore médicale imposait des mesures radicales. En 2002, c'est l'angoisse de l'envahisseur européen qui a justifié un moratoire sur l'ouverture de nouveaux cabinets. Aujourd'hui, alors que la Suisse recrute de plus en plus de médecins étrangers pour ses besoins, le Conseiller fédéral Couchepin brandit la menace d'une augmentation des coûts de la santé de 300 millions par an pour justifier une troisième prolongation du moratoire. Ces mesures ont été dictées par la peur d'une explosion des coûts au point de faire perdre de vue la globalité de la situation. Aujourd'hui pourtant, une gestion rationnelle des ressources impose de tout faire pour qu'un maximum de médecins puissent travailler, car la population en a besoin et a déjà beaucoup investi dans leur formation ! Pour y parvenir, la création de postes d'assistanat à temps partiel, l'adaptation urgente des structures d'accueil en garderie et le respect de conditions de travail raisonnables sont des éléments incontournables mais trop souvent négligés par les politiques et les médecins eux-mêmes !

A Review of the Driver's License Issuance Program Administered by the Department of Transportation and the County Treasures, For the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2005

Other Audit Reports

Biodiesel Fuel Revolving Fund Expenditures Report Fiscal Year 2005 Report, January 2006

Report of expenditures from the biodiesel fuel revolving fund for biodiesel fuel used in Iowa Department of Transportation vehicles.

Annual Report of Highway Division Highway Research and Development in Iowa for the Fiscal Year ending June 30, 2005

The Highway Division of the Iowa Department of Transportation engages in research and development for two reasons: first, to find workable solutions to the many problems that require more than ordinary, routine investigation; second, to identify and implement improved engineering and management practices. This report, entitled Highway Division Highway Research and Development in Iowa, is submitted in compliance with Sections 310.36 and 312.3A, Code of Iowa, which direct the submission of a report of the Secondary Road Research Fund and the Street Research Fund respectively. It is a report of the status of research and development projects, which were in progress on June 30, 2005; it is also a report on projects completed during the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2004, and ending June 30, 2005. Detailed information on each of the research and development projects mentioned in this report is available in the Research and Technology Bureau in the Highway Division of the Iowa Department of Transportation.

Celebrating Our Past...Embracing Our Future, Iowa Lottery Authority Annual Report, Fiscal Year 2005

Iowa Lottery Authority Annual Report, Fiscal Year 2005

Fiscal Year 2005 IOWAccess Revolving Fund Report

Legislatively Mandated Report. Iowa Code §8A.224 – “The department shall submit an annual report not later than January 31 to the members of the General Assembly and the Legislative Services Agency of the activities funded by and expenditures made from the revolving fund during the preceding fiscal year.”