Governor McDonnell's Task Force For Local Government Mandate Review

On Monday, November 7, 2011, the five-person Governor’s Task Force on Local Mandates met for the first time to discuss rolling back state mandates on local government and schools. According to the Commission on Local Government, there are more than 600 state mandates, of which, over 100 apply to education. Each of the over 600 mandates includes numerous requirements, reports, and regulations. In addition to those mandates, local governments also identified numerous other state mandates that were not even on the Commission’s list. Of all of these mandates, in the last several years, only one mandate has been eliminated through the mandate review process. Frankly stated, that is simply unacceptable.