FORTY-SECOND BIENNIAL REPORT 169 



The departmental accounting officer, a new position, will be in immediate charge of 

 accounting and budget work for the department. He will have a group of assistants, 

 a number of whom will transfer from the Department of Natural Resources. 



The senior accountant now budgeted to the Bureau of Marine Fisheries, should be 

 on the staff of the administrative officer, to handle auditing and related work in con- 

 nection with tax returns of fish processors throughout the State. He is to report directly 

 to the administrative officer. This placement is tentative subject to further considera- 

 tion. Experience may indicate that the position should report to the departmental 

 accounting officer or to the head of the license (revenue) section. 



A supervisor of fish and game licenses (now Chief, Bureau of Licenses) will be 

 immediately responsible for the central office's license and permit activities. These 

 activities include estimating license retirements, planning printing, allocating li- 

 censes to regions for their direct sale and distribution to agents, and controlling and 

 auditing the distribution and returns. 



A new position of personnel officer reporting to the administrative officer will be 

 in immediate charge of developing and administering the department's personnel pro- 

 gram. For some time to come there will be a large amount of personnel follow-up work 

 in connection with the organization of the new department. In addition, there will be 

 continuing departmental personnel work involving classification, recruitment, pay. 

 counseling, and liaison with the Personnel Board. He also will participate in the de- 

 partmental training program. To handle the clerical record keeping phases of personnel 

 work he will have reporting to him an existing supervising clerk position. 



An existing administrative assistant position, which will report to the administra- 

 tive officer, will have two primary responsibilities. Its incumbent will be the imme- 

 diate supervisor of general office activities at headquarters, and conduct such adminis- 

 trative studies as may be assigned. General office management activities at headquarters 

 will include central stenographic service, files, mail, messenger, mimeographing, auto- 

 motive control, etc. Administrative studies will include organizational and procedural 

 work, time and cost studies, the preparation of manuals, etc. In a changing depart- 

 ment, covering a wide geographical area, with diverse activities, there will be need 

 for such work on a continuing basis. 



A senior civil engineer position, currently budgeted to administration, will be 

 responsible for general engineering work for the department and for liaison with the 

 Division of Architecture and other state agencies. It is practical and economical for the 

 department to do much more of its construction work than has been the case in the past. 



Engineering positions currently budgeted under fish conservation and game con- 

 servation should be transferred to the senior civil engineer. Study must be given to the 

 problem of determining the sphere of the headquarters engineering office and its rela- 

 tions to the respective regions in construction and in the pooling of heavy equipment. 



The administrative officer ultimately should be responsible for planning and follow 

 through on radio systems activities of the department, including liaison with the 

 Division of Communications, Department of Finance. For the time being, however, 

 the Fish and Game Department desires to retain this function under the wildlife pro- 

 tection activity. This appears to be a proper arrangement during the developmental 

 period of the communications system. However, it is believed that in the long run the 

 activity fits best with the administrative officer's responsibility for staff advice in 

 business administration. 



There are two possible locations for placing responsibility for operations of the air 

 service, and its four pilots and equipment: with the administrative officer, or with the 

 chief wildlife protection officer. Further study is suggested for this problem. 



The administrative officer through his staff will be assigned responsibility for various 

 office activities now being performed by headquarters employees of the present bureaus. 

 Further study should be made to determine which clerical positions should be trans- 

 ferred to the jurisdiction of the administrative officer to handle such work. A study also 

 should be made to determine if headquarters' clerical positions could be transferred 

 to the regions. 



Conservation Education Officer: This is a new civil service position to be in imme- 

 diate charge of the central office's public information and conservation education 

 activities. He is to report directly to the director because of the close relation of his 

 work to the director's work — preparing manuscripts and reports, receiving visiting 

 sportsmen and others, investigating complaints of service, etc. Reporting to the con- 

 servation education officer will be currently budgeted positions of supervisor of 

 conservation education, a public information officer, an editorial assistant, and the 

 senior librarian, responsible for the department's general library. 



