| Show al ff 0 w de r C t a 0 Specula speculation tio on capitol hill this week dwelt largely on how near the T twenty e rity eight utah legislature aril will go toward staying within governor J bracken lees retrenching budget for the governor opened the week by presenting his biennial budget message tour four days late at his own regnert reg nest it lyalls for appropriations from the general fund of as compared to appropriated by the 1947 loki legislature slature basis tor for the budget are estimated general fund revenues for the biennium blenn lum of and an estimated 1947 49 surplus of amounting to to a total to talo of it set up in accordance with the governors budget expenditures would leace a q surplus of at thet the loso of 0 the 1949 1940 51 period 1 this n I 1 nj contrast contra sf to actual general ciny tin revenues for fiscal year IHS ot 14 estimated fiscal 1949 rb revenues venues of and a 11 1947 47 surplus of 82 or a total of for the men blen gium which ends june 30 1949 1049 of this amount goes to mine occupation reserve to legisla legislative ive ap and tu to deficit appropriations leaving the estimated surplus of ille the governor told legislators he had actually recel received requests questa ro covering expenditure of tor for the biennium blenn lum and that he had recommended expenditure ex in excess of of the latter amount however comes from earmarked funds leaving for the to appropriate to iny my mind he said in this regard d this creates an undue restraint upon the legislative and executive br branches anthes of the government ern ment and one which cannot help but create serious financial distortions in the foreseeable future 11 I 1 i he called attention of the leg vt calv to the fact that in every ery instance my recommendation for or the appropriation to administrative 0 departments Is substantially less than appropriations to the last biennium blenn lum 91 previously he had stated that in making my recommendations to you I 1 earnestly earnst ly have in mind strengthening our financial Inar iclal structure against the day v wen aen adversity may strike by continuing the policy already initiated by continued on oa last page under the capitos capitol dome continued from page 1 your bottles of creating and building necessary casary reserves ros in ills hla recommendations by dopart monts the governor first suggested sui consolidation of tile the utah safety council and state driver license division now under the tax commission into one unit nit the clio Illg highway hway patrol this ho he sald could bo be done at a saving of if the ox ex act amount atrio recommended for the combined department for or tile b no ile said they lire spending between them this biennium blonn lum As aa it a i saying saving medium lie ile recommended om mended ded concentration of all vocational agricultural education under the extension division of tile the utah tate agricultural col logo and called for a general domination of duplication of vocational cat ional edu educator and federal aid pro prama granig ile iio recommended ro reduction in appropriations for some boino so federal aid ald programs and suggested a careful scrutiny ot of thorn them specific c examples were tho the rehabilitation and ami on the job train nig programs tp in both cases lie ho maintained federal grants were so red urcil clint the state was waa forced to pay moro than tho the agreement aBre ement callad for or ile ho recommended ft a cutback in state health skylene appropriations froin rom appropriated abed for 1947 48 to and suggested only bo appropriated 0 to o tho choi utah veterans administration in contrast to IBO allocated two denra aro ago in regard to tho the latter 1 I 1 h he maintained that jie ho had found through investigation that the work of me efio organization duplicator duplicates that conducted by various recognized veterans organizations lie reiterated a stand taken in lils his opening nies Bago sigo calling for tile tho legislature to control planning of projects under the water and power board bofird by retaining power of final approval then asked that no appropriation ho be made to the board car lift lie said less lesa than one halt half 0 of the 00 appropriated two years ago hall been and said what is in left in ill tile the fund would carry tile the projects for the next two years abolishment of the state publicity lina imd industrial develop eminent department was waa again ached with the in its place a new advertising agency it a modest appropriation on the subject oct of higher education tile the governors budget ree rec a bum appropriation ot of to be distributed among seven institutions with requests totaling 10 in addition the schools schoola would TO ra tain their dedicated credits as aa in tile the past which the governor set at the university of 0 utah alono in addition to its dedicated rc edits asks while utah sante agricultural cultural college requests totaled college Co lloRO which hopes to become a tour four year school through legislation already introduced to the senate requested while others liv include elude dranch branch agricultural college and snow junior collero college 2 appropriation to any bioti should he be basca upon reasonably need limited only by the ability of the state to pay declared cla ed the governor ills recommendation in regard to welfare la is directed at deduc lion of administration costs costa lie recommends the same assistance appropriation its that of two years ago plus the deficit lef folt appropriation prop of already made and now being considered by the legislature also was a continued appropriation of 7 per year for teacher retirement he be pointed out that the state lies has not been paying its blikre of 0 the fund ile he then recommended om mended a study of tile the fund to determine a firm future policy with mhd presentation of the malget Mul get message the joint appropriations committee of tile the two houses began dally daily meetings in the governors board roo room in in pre preparation caration pa ration of tile the appropriations bill interesting Is tile the fact that in one previous meeting tile the committee passed a resolution ins ing a policy of staying es tim revenue 1 A question may arise as to what the real estimated revenue will bo be as it Is noted the legislature appropriated over two years ago against estimated revenue of around and yet tile the result shows a surplus of over utter after additional deficit appropriations of nearly tile tho legislature had in mind the plight of the livestock men when it passed and aint to washington a request tor for congressional emergency aid to rescue starving and freezing sheep and othmer livestock stranded by severe cold and B storms tor Ms it also passed the hill bill calling for ratification of tild the colorado Coloia do river upper basin states compact anti and sent it to the governor for his signature ono one of the problems facing the legislature which now has haa over measures before it hns to do with the revival of junkets to state institutions which were halted when world wr war a II 11 came cam 0 along forty five of the 83 lawmakers went to ogden and visited four state institutions on the first postwar postwar trip lust friday and it Is only logical to assume that the legislators will be invited to loron american fork provo st george ephraim cedar city 11 ami price |
