Abstract: . . .  state-owned space. 5. The Legislature should amend M.G.L. c.7 to require all state agencies to provide information to DCPO on their usage of state-owned space. 6. The Legislature should amend M.G.L. c.7, §40G to allow the DCPO Commissioner to lease private space for a term not exceeding 10 years, provided that any lease exceeding the standard five-year term shall be ineligible for delegation. 7. The Legislature should amend M.G.L. c.7, §40G to permit lease renewals to be exercised within the 12 . . .
. . .  Leases (n = 18) 426 221 320 - 532 All Lease Amendments (n = 174) 128 82 96 - 160 Sample of Lease Amendments (n = 25) 138 86 104 - 172 Source: OIG analysis of DCPO data. According to these data, the samples of new leases and lease amendments drawn by the Office fell within the parameters established; that is, the average times required to complete the leasing process for the new lease and lease amendments in the sample were within plus or minus 25% of the average times required to complete the leasing . . .
. . .  there was a significant statistical difference between the average time to complete new leases and lease amendments. 42 For the purpose of this analysis, the time to complete a transaction is the number of days between when DCPO received an agency's space request (F1) and when the DCPO Commissioner signed the lease approval (F3). Page 76 A-3 1997 Office of the Inspector General, Commonwealth of Massachusetts. All rights reserved. A hypothesis test to determine whether two groups of data are statistically . . .
. . .  by the Office fell within the parameters established; that is, the average times required to complete the leasing process for the new lease and lease amendments in the sample were within plus or minus 25% of the average times required to complete the leasing process for all new leases and lease amendments. Sources Blalock, Jr., Hubert M., Social Statistics, Revised third edition. McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1979. Hassett, Matthew J. and Neil A. Weiss, Introductory Statistics, Third edition. Addison- . . .
. . .  commissioned by DCPO, to design a reliable system within DCPO for collecting and tracking information on usage of state-owned space. 5. The Legislature should amend M.G.L. c.7 to require all state agencies to provide information to DCPO on their usage of state-owned space. 6. The Legislature should amend M.G.L. c.7, §40G to allow the DCPO Commissioner to lease private space for a term not exceeding 10 years, provided that any lease exceeding the standard five-year term shall be ineligible for delegation. . . .
. . .  Legislature should mandate and fund a consultant study, commissioned by DCPO, to design a reliable system within DCPO for collecting and tracking information on usage of state-owned space. 5. The Legislature should amend M.G.L. c.7 to require all state agencies to provide information to DCPO on their usage of state-owned space. 6. The Legislature should amend M.G.L. c.7, §40G to allow the DCPO Commissioner to lease private space for a term not exceeding 10 years, provided that any lease exceeding the . . .
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