Section 73-P. Department report

Commencing December thirty-first, nineteen
  hundred eighty-seven, the department,  in  cooperation  with  the  state
  interagency coordinating committee on rural public transportation, shall
  prepare  and  submit  to the governor and the legislature a report on or
  before the first day of  January  of  each  year,  which  shall  include
  information   relating   to   the   operation   of   coordinated  public
  transportation services in rural counties then being funded  under  this
  article and any recommendations for overall program improvement; stating
  the receipts and disbursements made during the preceding fiscal year and
  adequacy  of  programs financed by federal, state, local and private aid
  in rural counties  of  the  state.  The  department  shall  analyze  the
  programs  financed in accordance with this article and recommend methods
  of  avoiding  duplication  and  increasing  the  efficacy  of   programs
  financed.  The  department  shall receive comments from the officers and
  agents of affected state and local  government  units  relative  to  the
  department's analysis.