Governor Gregoire announced that Joyce Turner will oversee the effort to retructure several state agencies. The restructuring comes as part of legislation (SB 5931) passed during the 2011 session. 

The restructuring effort will merge five agencies into three and eliminate four other agencies.  As part of this effort the Department of General Administration, the Department of Personnel, the Department of Information Services, the state printer and the Office of Financial Management will be reconfigured.

The final product will be the establishment of a new Department of Enterprise Services (to include the Department of General Administration, Department of Personnel, and parts of the Office of Financial Management), a reconfigured Office of Financial Management, and a new Consolidated Technology Services.

Once the restructuring effort is formalized on October 1, Turner will become the new Director of DES and Mike Ricchio will serve as the new Director of Consolidated Technology Services. Turner currently serves as the Director of the Department of General Administration and Ricchio serves as the Director of the Department of Information Services.