NEWS ROOM - 2005 ARCHIVE

December, 2005

• The Office of Management and Budget issued a new Vehicle Use Policy effective November 22, 2005. Driving privileges for State employees will expire if you do not submit the new forms to Fleet Services in accordance with the following schedule:

December 15, 2005

• Vehicle Housed at Employee Residence Application. Current authorizations will expire as of 12/31/05.
• Exemption from State Owned License Plate. Current approvals will expire 12/31/05.

December 31, 2005

• Request for Blocked Vehicle form for each vehicle an Agency currently has blocked. All current block vehicle assignments will expire 12/31/05.

January 15, 2006

• Authorized Driver Designation Application (ADD)

If new forms are not submitted to Fleet Services by the due dates, you will be taken out of our authorized database and unable to drive a State vehicle, purchase gasoline for a State vehicle and risk being uninsured while driving a State vehicle. For more information, see the Vehicle Use Policy. The new forms can be found under Forms, Fleet Services. If you have any questions, please contact Fleet Services at 302-739-2277.

November, 2005

• USPS Increases Postage Rates effective January 8, 2006

October, 2005

• Contracting institutes a Customer Satisfaction Survey in order to measure contract and vendor performance. For more information, please see the Contracting Customer Satisfaction Survey Memo from Blaine Herrick, Contract Administrator.

September, 2005

• Hurricane Katrina mail service update (as of 9-14-05)

• FYI from Messenger Services - Due to Hurricane Katrina, mail service to the affected areas has been disrupted and in most cases suspended. For more information and a listing of affected areas, please see the USPS web site. In addition, the State of Delaware Pre-Sort vendor has informed us that mail sent to the Hurricane affected areas will be returned.

July, 2005

• Fleet Services has updated their Fueling Card Locations and Maps to a more user-friendly format. The new maps and location keys can be found on the Fleet Fueling Locations link under the Information navigation. In addition to the fueling sites, we have included the Vehicle Pool sites for your convenience.

• Fleet Services Upgrades Reservation Confirmations - Effective July 14, 2005, Fleet Services' reservation confirmations will now be sent to your state email account. Should you be one of the few who do not have an email address on file with Fleet Services, you will continue to receive a fax confirmation. This upgrade should result in an improved delivery of services to our customers.

  We continually strive to provide increased service delivery to our customers and hope that you will find this change an improvement. Let us know if you have any comments.

• Governor Minner's Major Reorganization of State Government Agencies became effective July 1, 2005 - The Department of Administrative Services, along with the State Personnel Office and the Budget Office, has combined to become our new agency: Office of Management and Budget. Under this reorganization, the Division of Support Services has been renamed Government Support Services. Look for changes on our web site in the near future.

June, 2005

• Messenger Services posts a Latest News section to web site.

• Delaware Surplus Services announces Fall Auction date for October 15, 2005.

• Government Support Services (formerly The Division of Support Services) web site migrated to the new "common look and feel" design on February 22, 2005. Also under this design, the Division's services were also combined into one site.

January, 2005

• Governor Minner Announces Major Reorganization of State Government Agencies

• Delaware Surplus Services announces Spring Auction date for May 14, 2005.

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