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as the official known as the Comptroller is one responsibility
but. his function on a Board of Public Works is an entirely
different one, or to put it another way, anyone could
sit on the Board of Public Works and perform this indepen-
dent watchdog function without necessarily also having
to be head of the Treasury Department; and it seems that --
I am questioning whether or not this is a correct analysis,
whether or not this dichotomy can be made because if it can,
it is important that we do so because it would seem that
we could have this kind of elective official, and at the
same time strengthen the Executive Branch; but at the same time
not let the Treasury Branch be headed by an elective
position.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Sybert.
DELEGATE SYBERT: I think the people of this
State in 1951, and you might say confirmed ever since by
reason of the fact that it has never been changed by
constitutional amendment, conceived that a person such as
the Comptroller who has or acquires an intimate working
knowledge of all facets of State government, all the
executive departments, is perhaps the best State official
to sit on the Board of Public Works because of their