http://www.ofm.wa.gov/budget11/recsum/477.pdf

This is a nine page break down of the mini changes plus the money that is proposed. Some make sense and others do not. Others still make me want to fire the folks who thought they were a good idea worthy of a budget expense in the first place. Make your own opinions.

I think the big picture here is that, since they believe merging two three or four agencies together will save money, I believe you have to disect the mission and nature of the work to find out what makes them compatible and others not compatible.

Noone would pair WDFW with the Dept of Transportation, but we all know what culverts do under the roads. 20/20 hindsight would have put a lot more WDFW in the zoning regulations for homes and business over the last century, but that is sort of the point, there are many parallel functions and operations and there are those that are on a head on collision course. Dept of energy and WDFW come to mind.