KtS DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME 



The proposed plan is a line-and-staif type of organization. Line officers include the 

 director, the deputy director, and the five regional managers responsible for operations 

 in their respective localities. Headquarters employees, who are primarily staff officers 

 in relation to the regions, include the administrative officer, the conservation education 

 officer, and four chief staff positions. 



As staff officers, headquarters employees will not issue direct orders to operations 

 employees of the regions. To do so would result in multiple lines of command from the 

 headquarters office to the regions. 



With respect to the regions, the headquarters staff officers will advise in their respec- 

 tive areas of responsibility. They will give staff assistance in research, planning, 

 inspecting, and training for their fields of responsibility — i.e., business affairs, con- 

 servation education, marine fisheries, inland fisheries, game management, and wildlife 

 protection (patrol and law enforcement). It will be their responsibility to direct 

 state-wide research programs and to correlate the findings of research and manage- 

 ment from field sources in order that suggestions for programs, policies, and regula- 

 tions may be formulated for presentation to the director, and through him to the com- 

 mission as required. They also should ascertain whether policies and programs are 

 carried out in an effective and uniform manner by the regions, reporting their findings 

 to their respective superiors. 



Position titles used in the following discussion of the organization are illustrative 

 rather than official, since establishing classifications and titles is a Personnel Board 

 function. 



Fish and Game Commission: Responsibility for determining fish and game policies 

 and regulations will rest with the commission. 



Secretary to Commission: See above. 



Director: It is the director's responsibility to submit recommendations to the com- 

 mission relative to fish and game policies and regulations. Responsibility for adminis- 

 tration of the department, including development and application of administrative 

 programs and policies, will rest with the director. 



Reporting to the director will be three employees : the deputy director, the adminis- 

 trative officer, and the conservation education officer. 



Deputy Director: Reporting to the director will be the deputy director, an exempt 

 position, in whom will be lodged direct responsibility for planning, coordinating, and 

 directing the general operations of the department for the director. In the absence 

 of the director, he will assume charge of the department. 



All key positions except the administrative officer and conservation education officer 

 will report to the deputy director. These include four chief staff positions for special 

 subject matter areas plus the proposed regional managers, which will mean that the 

 total number reporting to him will not exceed nine. 



Administrative Officer: The former Division of Fish and Game has not maintained 

 a complete "business administration" unit of its own since it became a part of the 

 Department of Natural Resources more than 20 years ago. Most of the services normally 

 performed by such a unit were handled by the latter department. 



Presently the Department of Natural Resources is continuing to handle, under 

 contract, the fiscal and related work of the new Department of Fish and Game until 

 the latter's own organization is perfected and equipped to take over such functions. 



Recently the director obtained the approval of both the Department of Finance and 

 the State Personnel Board to establish a top administrative position under the title of 

 "Administrative Officer," who will be in charge of planning and organizing the 

 "housekeeping functions" of the new agency. He should be responsible for planning, 

 organizing, and directing the central office administrative and business services of the 

 department. These services include accounting, budgeting, personnel, auditing of fish 

 processors books, license distribution, engineering, and possibly the radio systems work. 

 In addition to directing these activities, the administrative officer will act as business 

 adviser to the director and will have responsibility for directing organizational and 

 procedural studies. 



The administrative officer will have a wide responsibility for business management 

 activities both in headquarters office and in the field. His business management re- 

 sponsibilities in the field should be carried out in the name of the director and through 

 the regional managers in order to eliminate the possibility of dual supervision. 



There will be six persons reporting directly to the administrative officer : A new 

 departmental accounting officer, a present position of senior accountant, a supervisor 

 of fish and game licenses (now Chief, Bureau of Licenses), a personnel officer, an 

 administrative assistant, and a senior engineer. In addition, there may later be an 

 employee in charge of radio communications. 



