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about it this regular session of the Legislature, but there would be a
possibility that the Legislature might be in special session for one
reason or another and if revenues prove to be much better, I am sure
we can do something about it.

Q. Would you call a special session if you came into a considerable
amount of money on April 16th?

A. Well, it would depend on the need for the spending. I wouldn't
want to say that I would simply because the money was there. It will
depend on the Nelson Ad Hoc Committee's recommendations, it will
depend on how much of the social security deficit of $2. 3 million must
be funded and when it has to be funded, and it will depend on the
passage of the Constitution and quite a few other factors.

Q. Governor, to back up several steps, there seems to be some con-
fusion on actually how much your mandated programs will cost. Do
you have any idea?

A. I don't have an accurate figure. Mr. Slicher's working on it now,
but I would guess there's a possibility they may cost four or five mil-
lion dollars in total.

Q. Are those just mandated or those that are mandated plus top
priority?

A. I don't want to say mandated legislatively or statutorily alone,
but I think when you look at something as important for example as
proceeding with the transit planning, avoiding a setback in transit
planning for a year, that's almost equivalent to a mandate because
it's of such high priority. But I'd say it could run as much as $5 mil-
lion.

Q. Governor, the Senate Finance Committee will ask you, if it hasn't
already, to restore not only the scholarship money, but also the money
to keep the demonstration schools open and also at least $100, 000 for
teacher tuition waivers.

A. Let me say what I said before and I've said this consistently, al-
though I think the impression given by some of the reports in the
newspapers has not been quite accurate on this; the demonstration
schools are a matter with a priority to be set by the Board of Trustees
of State Colleges. What I said was if I came up with more money for
State colleges, they would then decide whether to reinstate demon-
stration schools or whether to put the money in professors' salaries
or whatever they wanted to do with it, so I never have indicated that
I would reinstate demonstration schools. If we have additional money,