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Show Statehouse Report , . . Leaders Work on Two Fronts To Economize on Operations BY C. SHARP State administrators and lawmaker groups are considering con-sidering trimming spending spend-ing because of disappointing disappoint-ing 'tax collections reported report-ed by the State Tax Commission. Com-mission. The Joint Legislative Budget-Audit Committee, headed by Sen. W. Hughes Brocktoank, R-Salt Lake, decided July 6 to wait 20 days before recommending possible cutbacks. Karl N. Snow, legislative legisla-tive analyst, reported that sales tax collections for the fiscal year ended June 30 are $1.3 million below estimates, of last January. Corporation .franchise (income) (in-come) tax was low ' toy $800,000 iand individual income in-come tax lagged by $1.8 million. Overall collections of special taxes by the state are up 7J2 per cent compared com-pared with the previous fiscal year, bringing in $166.61 million, but the increase in-crease has been less than anticipated. Gas Tax Steady Gasoline tax collections are up 4.1 per cent, from $22.94 -million . to : $23.88 and cigarette tax for the general fund was down 1.71 per cent from $3.8 million to $3.76 million. i The three new seven-meimiber seven-meimiber state coordinating coordinat-ing councils organized July Ju-ly 5 and began efforts to trim duplication and overlapping over-lapping in state government. govern-ment. Critics of the. consolidation consolida-tion plan iprescribed by the 1967 Legislature fear that addition of the new coordinating councils merely mer-ely multiplies names ...'on the payroll. ' . Gov. Calivin L. Rampton, legislators and the appoin- tees are determined, however, how-ever, that the new bodies will justify their existence by requiring more efficient effic-ient operations. More democratic de-mocratic representation on state policy making bodies also is being provided by the 21 council members. ,vOon't Meddle" . Gov. Ramton warned the part-time $25 a day council members at the session against interfering in administrative operations. opera-tions. He said he had had to replace one Road Commission Commis-sion member who tried to .give orders to employees. The former State Pair Board and members of the Board of Corrections -also had by-passed . the directors direct-ors rthey had hired to do the Work,' the " governor said. -Sen. Samuel J. Taylor, R-Moab, chairman of the Senate ; State and Federal Affairs Committee which drafted . the reorganization reorganiza-tion bills, warned' the members mem-bers that 'hard iieaded businessmen not afraid to knock heads together" are needed on the councils. Wants Results tRep. 3tay M. Harding, R-Salt Lake, chairman of the corresponding House corrimittee who aided in drafting the bills, challenged chal-lenged the appointees to attain economies. The council members appointed ap-pointed three executive directors di-rectors - who had served the past- year as coordinators; coordin-ators; in the earlier experimental experi-mental groupings authorized author-ized by the 1965 . Legislature Legisla-ture .special sessions. These men wiM receive $15,000 a year or more if their pre-ent pre-ent salaries exceed this. Chairmen of the councils coun-cils were also elected. The departments and their chairman and direct-... direct-... ors are: Natural Resources Natural Resources Thorpe Wadding-ham, Delta, Del-ta, chairman; Jay R. Bingham, Bing-ham, . executive director. Health and Welfare Kay. Allen, Salt Lake City, chairman, Ward C. Hol-brook, Hol-brook, executive director. Development Services Sidney G. Bauoom, Salt Lake City, chairman; Milton Mil-ton L. Weilenmann, executive execu-tive director. At meetings of the three .coordinating councils this week, the 17 divisions formerly for-merly holding independent status, will be organized. New Directors : It is expected that Daniel Dan-iel F.'-Lawrence, assistant director of the old Water & Power Board, would be appointed director of ths new Water Resources Board, Boa-rd, and rliat Mrs. Algie Ballif, Provo, former member mem-ber of the fulltime Welfare Wel-fare Commission, would be appointed director of the Division of Welfare. Both directors will receive $13,-000 $13,-000 a year. A new director direc-tor to succeed Mr. Weilenmann Weilen-mann as Industrial Promotion Pro-motion Coarjmdssdon executive exec-utive will also be named. Other board directors will probably be retained. Leonard J. Smith, Cedar Qity native and real estate es-tate man and auto salesman sales-man there until 1965 when he was appointed to the old fuQMime three-member State Liquor Control Commission, Com-mission, was appointed director of the reorganized reorganiz-ed commission July 7. He had been in charge of stores and package agencies, agen-cies, and later acting assistant assis-tant director. J. W. Pace, former chairman and acting act-ing director, retired. |