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to distribute it around so it couldn't be effective, to
eliminate any publicity the legislature might have required
for the board action, any resourceful governor could delay
the legislature acting for this 50-day period.
The question therefore is not whether it is
desirable that this be a Constitutional board, but
whether it is desirable that we have any such board. If
you feel we are to have such board, the only way to pro-
tect it is to make it Constitutional.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Grumbacher.
DELEGATE GRUMBACHER: Mr. Chairman, I rise to
correct what I believe is a misunderstanding on the
big hassle we had last year in the legislature over the
purchase of some land from the Naval Academy Athletic
Association.
My memory seems to be that at that time the
Department of Public Improvements, not the Board of
Public Works, was negotiating for the purchase of that
property at 1,500,000, that three members of the House of
Delegates got together and had at least three appraisals
made, all of which were very substantially low, in fact