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money, but we have an obligation to get as much of it as we can to
get our programs done. Now this office of national affairs is being
expanded, and was contemplated to expand into providing a Wash-
ington suburban office of the Governor, since Montgomery and Prince
George's counties now have probably as high as 27%-28% of our
population. It's very important that those people have direct execu-
tive contacts.

Now these new staffing positions, that I've just told you about, came
about not so much through my original thinking as through the won-
derful work of the Curlett Commission which Governor Tawes ap-
pointed in recognition of the tremendous difficulties of administering
these 240 separate agencies of the government. We have just begun
to implement these recommendations of the Curlett Commission; and
ladies and gentlemen I strongly commend to you a very diligent study
of that report, which is one that is very thoughtfully prepared and will
be of immense value to you in seeing what the needs are of the execu-
tive branch of government.

Out of the Curlett Commission report one brand new thing came:
the program executive method of administering the executive branch,
and this has been very successful for us. We have designated six pro-
gram executives. These have been created as an immediate means
of improving communications between the Governor and the 240
agency heads. Each program executive is assigned certain agencies to
supervise and to reflect the desires and the philosophy of the Governor
in frequent meetings with the heads of these agencies. Obviously, the
Governor can't meet with the agency heads as frequently as he should.
And it has been very helpful to have the program executives, such as
Bob Lally in the field of public safety and Gil Ware in the field of hu-
man relations and related fields. The agency break-downs by the
program executives work basically as follows. We have Mel Cole,
former assistant superintendent in Baltimore County, who has the
education assignment, and this is so formidable that it is all that Mel
has. That's probably enough to keep him busy forever. The next area
is health, welfare, mental hygiene, economic opportunity and human
relations; Dr. Gilbert Ware has that area. Economic development,
commerce, labor, administrative and employer relations; Ormsby
Moore has that area. Planning, urban affairs and natural resources —
there are many, many agencies that fall under those three broad
heads, and they're the responsibility of Vladimer Wahbe. Transporta-
tion — fantastically large area — is under the supervision of Russell
McCain. And last, law enforcement and public safety and correction,