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Although the committee feels that many of the
Board of Public Works' functions should be exercised at a
lower administrative level, it fully recognizes that many
of the Board's decisions are of vital importance to the
State and should be made in the open at public meetings
where minutes are kept.
The committee wishes to emphasize the committee
recommendations regarding the Public Works, the General
Assembly will still have the authority to provide that each
decision must be made in public, the minutes must be kept
and must be made only with the approval of the Board of
Public Works or some other board of the General Assembly
that the General Assembly establishes.
The committee acknowledges that under the
proposed Executive Article the Committee has eliminated
the existing Constitutional checks within the Executive
Branch. But it has left undisturbed -- and this
Convention is indeed strengthening -- the checks between
the executive, legislative, and judicial branches. By far
the best check within any branch is the requirement that
can be imposed by the General Assembly that all its decisiors