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Mr. Chairman, and fellow delegate I submit
the question here is w.hether or not we are going to
take a further power away from the governor and -- away
from the people and do away with the state comptroller,
do away with the Board of Public Works or put the legis-
lature in a position to abolish that whole. I submit
we should not.
THB CHAIRMAN: Delegate Maurer»
DELEGATE MAURER: I arise to oppose the
amendment. If we want the Executive Branch to be subject
to the same kind of reasonable standards which this
democratic Convention demonstrated for executive and
judicial branches then it is essential that the Board
of Public Works be Constitutionalized.
When the Board of Public Works was established
in the mid-19th Century it represented in part political
philosophy, in part a response to political problems of
the day, but also in part to what was known about
management techniques at that time.
At that time, the time of the Convention IUU
years ago the typewriter and the telephone were on the