NEWS CONFERENCE 909

trol. I think that most people would agree that there should be no
more than 20 principal executive heads that can be the source of my
contact in the government.

Q. The purpose of this Commission is to confirm that?

A. The purpose of the Commission is to suggest ways of implement-
ing it and I guess to separate the highly controversial portions from
those that are generally agreed upon, so that we can achieve by way
of constitutional amendment what we were not able to achieve by
way of a unified instrument.

Q. Then this is aimed at eventual constitutional amendment rather
than at simple legislative change?

A. It can be both. It can be statutory change if that can do it. It
can be constitutional amendment.

Q. Governor, isn't the Task Force on Modern Management study-
ing this very same problem — reorganization and streamlining of the
executive branch?

A. Yes; yes it is to a degree. Now I can separate to some extent
what the Task Force is doing by saying that many of the things that
they are going to be responsible for implementing don't even require
legislation. They can be done by administrative directive. Whereas
what this Committee will be going into will be mainly handled
through legislative or constitutional change. And you know that the
Legislature already has functioning a 30-man Constitutional Revision
Committee — this Curlett group will work through that Committee
as far as constitutional reform is concerned but will restrict itself to
an examination of the executive branch.

(State Expenditures)

Q. Governor, can you tell us specifically what significant cuts in
spending have been made as a result of the revenue shortage?

A. I can't tell you today. I know that many cuts are being imple-
mented, but I haven't had a report in depth from Mr. Slicher as yet.
I should have this information for you within a week or two.

Q. Will any of those cuts, Governor, result in a reduction of the
work force of the State?

A. Well, certainly to the degree that positions that are not filled,
at the present time will not be filled — the normal attrition, the drop-
off, vacancies, that sort of thing. And possibly as we get into the
efficiency study that the Mclntyre Committee is going to do, even
more so.