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DELEGATE FREEDLANDER: Would
the Chairman of the Committee please
yield for a question?
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Morgan, do
you yield?
DELEGATE MORGAN: I yield.
DELEGATE FREEDLANDER: Will
this new body be called the interdepart-
mental board of review or will it be called
the Department of Public Works?
DELEGATE MORGAN: Delegate Freed-
lander, it really does not make much dif-
ference to me what you call it, I just
thought that calling it the Interdepart-
mental Board of Review was much more
accurate than calling it the Board of Pub-
lic Works.
Actually, if I were a kid in high school,
when I came across the Board of Public
Works, I would have thought it had some-
thing to do with the construction of dams
and building bridges and things of that
sort. When I found out that it had con-
trol over expenditures and the creation of
state expenditures from the emergency
fund and approval of travel expenses of
people coming from Missouri to the Uni-
versity of Maryland for the purpose of
interviewing the president for a teaching
job and approving the plans of the West
Annapolis Fire Department to hold its an-
nual carnival on the Naval Academy park-
ing lot grounds, I just thought calling it the
interdepartmental board of review was a
much more accurate title than the Board
of Public Works.
DELEGATE FREEDLANDER: I have
another question.
THE CHAIRMAN : Delegate Freedlander.
DELEGATE FREEDLANDER: In the
light of your reply then what would be the
purpose of freezing into the Constitution
a Board that may never exist by this
name, namely, the Board of Public Works
if it is the intention of the Committee to
have the existing powers frozen in. Could
this not be done by a schedule of transition
legislation rather than freezing in words
that may be meaningless upon the adoption
of this constitution?
THE CHAIRMAN: I think the Chair
should stick to what would be the effect of
a recommendation to be included in a com-
mittee report.
This is not language to be included in
the constitution. Under the rules of the
Convention, only a Committee Recommenda-
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tion can include language to be included in
the constitution.
This proposal recommending the correc-
tion of an interdepartmental board of re*
view, if approved, would, the Chair be-
lieves, require the Committee on the Ex-
ecutive Branch to draft precise language
to carry that recommendation into effect.
It would not necessarily be the precise
words in this recommendation. You concur
in that understanding, Delegate Morgan?
DELEGATE MORGAN: I concur in that
understanding, but I would like to add that
in the amendment itself, that is the amend-
ment which the Committee adopted this
morning, we set out the existing functions
of the Board of Public Works in general
terms and said that the legislature could
describe such of these functions as it chose
to prescribe for the new interdepartmental
board of review.
It seems to me highly desirable that this
Convention when it sets up an interdepart-
mental board of review at least indicate
the kind of things it has in mind for the
board of review to review.
THE CHAIRMAN: Any delegate desire
to speak in opposition to the amendment?
Delegate Fornos?
DELEGATE FORNOS: Mr. Chairman,
I have a substitution to this amendment
for lines 17 and 18 which is being drafted
and in the absence of its being before the
Convention, if there is consent, I would like
to explain it and then let us discuss it
while the amendment is being mimeo-
graphed.
THE CHAIRMAN : Can you indicate the
nature?
DELEGATE FORNOS: In view of the
fact the Convention voted to retain the
office of the comptroller, I would strike on
line 17 "an individual" and on line 18, all
of it except the comma, and then substitute
"the comptroller as a member of the board
of — ", whatever we call this thing.
THE CHAIRMAN: How long ago was
the amendment prepared?
DELEGATE FORNOS: At the point we
indicated we would go to Recommendation
No. 1.
THE CHAIRMAN: As the Chair under-
stands the proposed amendment, it would
delete from line 17 the words "an in-
dividual" and —
DELEGATE FORNOS: No.
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