Show Uw ferme B J f kua kug isa B b spa r 1 I A mma ena p 9 lati acy by hayry harry marlowe speculation oh on capitol ittai hill mil th is wee week k dwelt lart largely tely on how near the twenty eighth utah legislature killgo wm go toward stay ine ing within gov J bracken lees loes re benching en chinn ching budget for 1 51 tae tac T governor opened the week by p benting sen ting his biennial bud get m massago asage four lays days late at his 0 own n request it calls for ap from the general fund of 12 us as comi compared pared hared to 83 appropriated by the 1947 1047 legislature basis for the budget duet n are arc re estl esti mated general fund revenue for tor the biennium blenn lum of rund and nn an estimated surplus of amounting to a 11 total of I 1 12 if set up in accordance with the govar nors budget expedit ures would leave a surplus of 12 at the close of the 1040 51 period this Is in contrast to actual general fund revenues for tor fiscal year 1048 1948 of 9 4 esti estl mated fiscal 1949 1049 revenues of and a 1045 47 sur plus of or a total of 96 for the blen n alum 1 um w which hi c h en ends ds june 30 1949 of this amount 31 goes to mine occupation reserve to legislative up and to deficit appropriations 1 a ti 0 n s leaving leavin g the estimated surplus ot of 1520 la 12 the governor told legislators he had actually received requests covering expedit ure une of for the biennium biennium and that he recommended had elpe deture in excess of of the taz faT batca latter iatter ca amount however comes from elir marked funds leaving for the legislature to appropriate te to tomy my mind he said in this regard this creates an undue upon the legislature and executive branches of the govern ment and one which cannot canno help heip but create serious financial dl stort fons lons in the foreseeable fu ture he called attention of the leg to the fact that in every instance my recommendation for the a appropriation to a m kistra tive departments epa en i is s su substantially s t an it a ll 11 y less than azpr appropriations I 1 to the last blenna 11 he had stated that ay in makine making my recommendation I 1 earnestly have in mind our financial structure against the day when adversity may strike by continuing the policy initiated by your bodies of creating and building feces sary reserves in his recommendation by part mentse the governor first suggested consolidation of the utah safely safety council and state driver license division nov now der the tax commission into one unit under the utah highway patrol this he said sald could be done at a saving of the exact amount recommended for the combined department for the biennium bienn blenn lum he said they are tire spending 40 0 00 between them this biennium As a saving medium he re commended concentration of all vocational agricultural education under the extension division of the utah state agricultural col cat lege and called for a general ell of duplication of voca dional education nn and ana d federal ald aid programs he recommended in appropriations for some so called federal aid pro grams and suggested a careful of them S specific examples were the re and training programs in both cas es he maintained ed federal grants were werd so reduced that the state staw was forced to pay more than the agreement called for he recommended a cutback in state health service a from appropriated for 1947 49 to and sug nested only be abed to the utah veterans ve terang ad ministration Iri in contrast to allocated two years ago regard to the tho latter he hv maintain cd ed thoi ho he hod had fd through personal investigation that the work evko of f the organization borgaa tion duplicates that conducted by various recognized veterans or reiterated a stand token taken nun in his opening message colling calling for the legislature to control plan ning of 0 projects under the water and power board by retaining power of final approval then aswed asked that no appropriation be mado made to the board he said less than half of the op preprinted two years ago had fa K been spent adad and said what has hns Is le left in the fund would carry the pr pro ejects for the next next two years abolishment of the state pub puh and industrial cevelo develop mont department was v again agarn again asked with the creation tl 1 in its 4 pinco place a new advertising agency with a modest appropriation on the subject of higher tion the tho governors budget ro commends n lump sum tion alon atlon ol 01 to be distri buted among seven institutions with requests to talling in addition the schools school would retain their dedicated credits as in iii the past which the governor set at abr 4 the university of utah alone in to its dedicated credits asks while utah state agricultural college re quests totaled 3 1 weber college which hopes honea to become bee a W school K through legislation already in trod in the senate request cd ed while others in clude branch agricultural col coi I 1 eke a carbon jun for lor college dixie junior college 20 and snow junior college appropriation to any tion fion should be based upon rea need limited only bv b r the ability of the state to pay declared the governor his recommendation in regard to welfare Is directed at tion uon of administration costs ho he recommends the same assistance appropriation as that of tw two 0 years ago p plus pius lus ius the deficit ap apy t of a already ready made maae and now being considered by the legislature also aiso recommended was a con tinned appropriation tion of per y ear f 0 0 r teacher retire ment although he pointed out that the state hns has not been ing its share of the fund he then lre jre commended recommended a study of the fund to determine a firm future policy with SW the presentation of tho the budget message the joint ap committee committed of two houses began daily dally meeting tn the governors board room in preparation of the appropriations bill interesting Is the fact that one previous meeting the com corn cittee mitt passed a resolution adopt ing a policy of staying within estimated revenue A question may arise as to what the real estimated reven rovers ip ive will be as it Is noted the tho legislature appropriated over two years ago a estimated revenue of around and yet the tho result shows a surplus of over after additional de fielt fleit appropriation appropriations s of nearly meanwhile e the legislature e had in mind the plight of the live stock men when it passed and set washington a request for con gress lonal ional emergency aid to res cue starving and freezing she sheep L P and other livestock stranded by severe cold and storms it also passed pasted the bill calling for ratification of the colorado river upper basin states co corm corn M pact and sent it to the governor tor for his signature one of the problems facing the legislature which now has over members before it has to do with the revival of junkets to ti state institutions which were halted when W world orld orid war weir II 11 cabe cate came camo along forty five of the 83 lawmakers went to orders and visited four nate date institutions on oh the first pos postwar t war trip last frida friday y and it is only logical to assume that the legislators will be invited to lo 10 gan american fork provo st geor george ge ephraim M cedar city n and nd price |