URP Committees in both the Michigan state Senate and House are working with the human resources departments of some of the largest employers in the state to draft "citizen performance" guidelines. Inspired by Governor Rick Snyder's initiative to oversee the financial health of municipalities, representatives from the University of Michigan, the Rehabilitation Institute of Michigan, and General Motors are planning to meet with Senate Majority Leader Randy Richardville and House Speaker Jase Bolger to itemize citizen competencies and expectations.
"Performance evaluations should be quite familiar to anyone who works these days," says Richardville. "They lay out the skills that are required for a person to perform successfully and spell out the expectations for that person, given their compentency levels."
Under the plan, it will be those towns and villages in the state that are financially underperforming that will be initially identified so that appropriate corporate care-takers can be assigned to them. Local officials and government employees will be required to turn in their resignations so that everyone starts over on an even playing field. Competency testing and other measures will ensure that only those officials and employees with the correct constellation of skills and traits will be retained to oversee the development of the new corporate-governmental structure. From there, a review of the population rolls will identify those good corporate citizens that will act as liasons between the new governing structure and the population at large.
"In time, we will re-structure all municipalities in the state, outlining skills and traits we all our citizens should adopt and use to improve their patriotism and output," says Lawrence Becker, Director of Benefits and Human Resources Information Technology at General Motors. "It is important that the governing companies get objective information on how citizens are performing at different levels in order to ensure that all municipalities meet expectations. No large corporation that I know of can get ahead in today's economic environment without such periodic evaluations"
Citiczens will be directed to take specific courses as indicated by a review of their performance. Remediation classes will be held throughout the University of Michigan educational system. Those citizens that consistently under-perform and recieve partial acheivement scores on their performance evaluations will begin losing corporate-government rights and benefits.