DOVER, Del. (AP) - Gov. John Carney is eyeing a revamp of Delaware's economic development efforts, possibly replacing a cabinet-level state office with a public-private partnership.
In his first official public act after taking the oath of office Tuesday, Carney on Wednesday signed an executive order creating a working group to study the feasibility of replacing the Delaware Economic Development Office with a partnership that includes private sector business leaders.
Carney said the effort is not meant as a criticism of DEDO's current efforts, but to explore whether a new approach would be more efficient and more productive.
The Delaware Business Roundtable, a non-partisan group of CEOs whose companies collectively employ more than 75,000 people in Delaware, has encouraged such a public-private approach, which some other states already have taken.
