1590                            JOINT RESOLUTIONS

Such industrial training programs offer an opportunity to Mary-
land workers to acquire or upgrade skills and thereby become more
productive contributors to the economy of the State.

States adjacent and nearby are providing these programs to Mary-
land's disadvantage in the competition for desirable new and ex-
panding industry.

An effective program of industrial training would tie in with the
proposal for business tax reform now being considered by the State
of Maryland. This program would endeavor to provide gainful em-
ployment to our people to meet the need for additional skilled labor
and to offer means whereby the unskilled might improve themselves
and our society; now therefore, be it

Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That joining with
the Maryland Economic Development Commission, the General As-
sembly calls to the attention of the Governor the problem and the
opportunity for improving our facilities and offerings for an in-
dustrial training program in order that this program may be an
effective and adequate part of the governmental services in the State
of Maryland; and be it further

Resolved, That the General Assembly calls for the cooperation and
assistance of all interested and affected organizations and agencies
toward the formulation and implementation of such a program for
industrial training; and be it further

Resolved, That the General Assembly also refers this subject to
the Legislative Council with the request that it be submitted by the
Council to the Committee on Taxation and Fiscal Matters for study
and necessary implementation.

Approved April 10, 1968.

No. 20
(Senate Joint Resolution 75)

Senate Joint Resolution requesting the President of the Senate and
the Speaker of the House to jointly appoint a committee to study
the problems of acquiring and developing recreation areas and to
develop a comprehensive program for funding these projects.

Whereas, The State of Maryland is faced with significant increases
in the population and with an ever widening deficit in the amount of
recreation areas to accommodate this expanded population; and

Whereas, Valuable recreation areas are rapidly being converted
to other use and forever lost as recreation space; and

Whereas, Land values throughout the State are increasing at an
alarming rate annually; and