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Correspondence on managing the agencies departments. Issues include discontinuing state investments in South Africa, worker's compensation claims, the Superior Court case of the State v. Unifirst Corporation, and the resignation of Secretary Ristau. There is material on controlling spending in 1985 and retiring the deficit and budget reductions during 1989-1990.
Much of the material concerns the analyses of state budgets throughout the Kunin administration. Included is correspondence between Kunin and various legislators about balancing the 1990 budget and reports on position reductions and transfers. There is also correspondence on government automation, as well as a letter from Kunin to Snelling asking him to remove a 1990 campaign ad from TV.
Most of the General Services material concerns state purchases, including copy machines, a telephone system, computers and a state travel contract. Also included are thank you letters from the governor to General Service Department employees for rescuing state property from the July 1988 flood.
Concerns various Personnel matters including qualifications for certain state employees, requests for new positions, pay equity in State government, and state employee's new perscription drug plan.
Concerns the administration of state buildings. There is correspondence on a proposed District Courthouse in White River Junction, on the restoration of the Executive Chamber, as well as a report on automation in State Government.
These records include correspondence concerning various tax matters, including decoupling the Vermont income tax from the federal tax, property tax relief, and the use value appraisal program. There are Dept. of Taxes reports on Vermont tax statistics, homeowners/renter refund statistics, and on the federal employment and self employment tax. There is also some correspondence on Kunin's decision to reverse Tax Dept. policy to apply the state sales and use tax to People Express Airlines and other commercial airlines.
The GIS records concern the creation of the Office in 1989, the GIS logo, and the governor's defense for charging the public for access to the computerized database.