OU Center for Public Management OU Center for Public Management The University of Oklahoma Center for Public Management(CPM) was established in 1994 on the Norman, Oklahoma campus as part of the OU College of Continuing Education's Public and Community Services Division. Using federally approved cost sharing principles and cost reimbursable accounting practices, CPM does business with public and private sector entities. Currently, the Center for Public Management employees approximately 237 staff and services approximately $22,000,000 in contracts per year. These services range from training and professional development in the classroom and online learning to providing professional services in research and analysis. CPM delivered over 130,000
Legislatively referred state statute Legislatively referred state statute A legislatively referred state statute is a statute that appears on a state's ballot as a ballot measure because the state legislature in that state voted to put it before the voters. A legislatively referred statute is a limited form of direct democracy with comparison to the initiated state statute. With the initiated statute, voters are in charge of the process from beginning to end, whereas with the legislatively referred statute, they can only approve or reject laws which their legislature votes to place before them. Of the 24 American states that have some degree of