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and office work involved in personnel duties of this character is too much for one employee. The survey staff therefore recommends the immediate creation of a position for a senior personnel officer for the Indian Service and an assistant personnel officer. The salary of the senior officer should be from $5200 to $6000 and that of the assistant from $3800 to $5000. To allow for traveling and other expenses an eee of at least $15,000 is recommended.
Maximum Decentralization of Operation. When the Division of Planning and Development has been established and the field personnel in immediate contact with the Indians has been materially strengthened, the time will be ripe for bringing about maximum decentralization in the operation of the Indian Service. The survey staff does not recommend the further development of the district system and the placing of a district staff in the administrative line between the several jurisdictions and the Washington office, as this course would complicate the procedure and increase the overhead expense without compensating advantages. Because each jurisdiction has its own peculiar problems and must have its own particular program adapted to local conditions, the local superintendent should have maximum administrative control and responsibility in the execution of the program. His work should be inspected and reviewed by administrative officers and specialists from the Division of Planning and Development in the Washington office, but he should be as far as possible the responsible directing head of the local work and he should be replaced if he is not effective.
As soon as the Service can work out for a jurisdiction a comprehensive program and furnish the necessary personnel for it, the rules to govern it should be promulgated to replace the existing rules. Recommendations for the necessary legislation to repeal or amend existing law which is no longer applicable or which hampers efficient administration should be drafted by the Indian Service and submitted to Congress, through appropriate channels, accompanied by a brief setting forth the reasons for the recommendations.
Medical Service. Adequate appropriations should be made markedly to accelerate the progress of the present administration in developing a real system of preventive medicine and public health service for the Indians.