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tary appropriation bill contains an irre-
vocable pledge of the full faith and credit
and unlimited taxing power of the State,
then in addition to that it must provide for
the taxes by which to cover the debt serv-
ice, and that means both the interest and
the principal.
So the legislature does not have a blank
check in any way to provide for these par-
ticular capital improvements which are not
included in the governor's own budget pro-
gram unless it complies with these pro-
visions.
I have not gone into each of these items
in detail. I do not think that this is neces-
sary in the light of the very extensive re-
port which the Committee Recommendation
SF-5 contains.
If I have overlooked anything, 1 am sure
you will bring it to my attention.
DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding) :
We are ready for questions.
Delegate Vecera.
DELEGATE VECERA: With regard to
SF-5 on page 3, lines 39 to 45, which dis-
cusses the adjustment to be made in rela-
tion to the number of children enrolled in
school, how do you ascertain for example
children that are enrolled in private paro-
chial schools?
1 know you spoke about it, but I did not
understand it.
DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding) :
Delegate Sherbow.
DELEGATE SHERBOW: Delegate Ve-
cera, the State only provides that $370 per
pupil in public schools. The State grants
its financial aid to public schools at the
rate of $370 per pupil in public schools.
DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding):
Delegate Vecera.
DELEGATE VECERA: My question,
Dr. Sherbow, is how are these other pupils
who are children of taxpayers counted or
are they not counted at all?
DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding) :
Delegate Sherbow.
DELEGATE SHERBOW: They are not
counted in this calculation because they are
not in the public school system, and there-
fore the public school system does not
receive ,$370 per child in schools which are
not public schools.
DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding) :
Delegate Vecera.
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DELEGATE VECERA: How are they
provided for in the constitution? There
seems to me to be a void somewhere, that
these people — how do we obtain that ad-
ditional money?
DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding) :
Delegate Sherbow.
DELEGATE SHERBOW: Those who
send their children to private and paro-
chial schools provide for the cost of the
private and parochial schools. They are of
various natures, the parents' endowments
and gifts. This is how they are main-
tained.
You heard on the discussion of the state's
bonded indebtedness, the State may only
act on what is for a public purpose and
the State makes no provision for private or
parochial schools.
DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding) :
Delegate Vecera.
DELEGATE VECERA: Is it possible
then for students to in fact enroll in public
schools, be counted in the state formula,
and drop out and go to a private school,
and we could still receive the aid?
Is this the way it is counted?
DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding) :
Delegate Sherbow.
DELEGATE SHERBOW: No, that can-
not be done. I might say to you, Delegate
Vecera, the wish that you are talking
about if it is to be reached at all, would
be reached under the provision dealing with
the first amendment of the Constitution of
the United States, which I understand Dele-
gate Kiefer's Committee will introduce be-
fore this assembly.
DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding) :
Delegate Vecera.
DELEGATE VECERA: It seems to me
you have so many students in a subdivi-
sion and not receiving any aid because they
could potentially be students of a public
school system, but because they are not, the
subdivision suffers, as a matter of fact.
DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding) :
Delegate Sherbow.
DELEGATE SHERBOW: Under our
system every parent has the right to send
his child to a school, provided it is an ac-
credited school, of his own choosing. If it
is a public school, then under our system
the State will give this aid to that public
school. Under our system, if it is not a pub-
lic school, the State does not provide that
aid.
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