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most critical areas of which is not responsive to the
elected representative at the top of the heap, to wit,
the Governor of this State.
We are thus faced with a Governor, or with an
Executive Department, headed by a Governor who is vested
with these general executive powers, and yet is deprived
of constitutional control over the general management of
the fiscal affairs of the State.
We need many reasons to make this recommendation.
We heard a great deal of testimony. We heard testimony
from many people who have been studying the problem of
strengthening of local government for many years. Without
exception, those people recommended that if Maryland is
to have a modern executive to meet the demanding problems
of urbanization and of the 20th Century, we must have an
increased power in the Chief Executive of this State.
We heard such testimony from the Council on
Ecomonic Development, one of the most distinguished groups
of business leaders, professional leaders, academicians
in the country. We heard such testimony from the Council
on Intergovernmental Affairs, not a business group, not an