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agency within the state where under the providing and
proper rules and regulations, in full view of the public
land and other property of the state may be disposed of.
We have refused to establish modern tools
as far as bondedness of the state; sure we have a Triple-
A rating but we have a Board of Public Works which has
to decide whether we go ahead and purchase bonds of the
type at certain interest rates.
Shouldn't this be in the hands of a fiscal
adviser? We could go on,and time is limited,but really
the Board of Public Works has become a super-legislature,
an in-between arm where it can act quite contrary to the
will of the legislature to change appropriations and
there are examples upon examples as we go back over the
last hundred years where the legislature ruled one way
and then the Board of Public Works until such time as the
legislature reconvened, acted in a completely different
manner.
We heard much about the visibility that the
Board of Public Works gives to us. On the contrary, the
Board has held quite irregular meetings without a set