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He and Department of Health and Social Services Commissioner Adam Crum say the department is too big, too unwieldy and needs sharpened focus to better serve Alaskans.
Crum says his department has more than 3500 employees, the largest in the state.
We are operating under the tyranny of time. There is just not enough time and bandwidth in the day for the commissioner’s office and staff to do anything other than move from fire to fire and crisis to crisis.
Dunleavy’s plan is to create two new state agencies through an executive order that has not yet been drafted.