PRESS RELEASE
Oregon Department of
Fish and Wildlife
Internet:
http://www.dfw.state.or.us/
Dec. 6, 2005
ODFW
director announces departure
Director Lindsay Ball will
depart ODFW to head the Oregon Department of
Administrative Services
SALEM - Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife
Director Lindsay A. Ball has been appointed to head
the Oregon Department of Administrative Services,
the Governor's Office announced today. The
appointment, which is subject to Senate
confirmation, takes effect Jan. 3, 2006.
The choice of Ball to lead DAS taps a director
who is well known and respected among legislators
and state agency leaders as someone who stands for
effective, efficient and responsive government.
"Director Ball was instrumental in bringing
fiscal integrity and open budget development
processes to ODFW," said Oregon Fish and Wildlife
Commission Chair Marla Rae. "His leadership has
transformed what was an embattled agency five years
ago into a department that is now held up as a model
for other state agencies to follow. I have been very
pleased to work with Lindsay for the last several
years and to see the improvements he has implemented
at ODFW."
Ball has led the department through some
significant changes, noted Rae, including workforce
reductions and reorganizations aimed at streamlining
operations, budget cuts and changes to bring the
agency's spending in line with revenues, relocation
of the agency's headquarters from Portland to Salem,
creation of the Oregon Hatchery Research Center, and
development of the state's first Wolf Conservation
and Management Plan.
The Commission will meet soon to select an
interim director to lead ODFW until a permanent
replacement is named. No decision has been made as
to when the recruitment for a new director will
begin.
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