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1	be taken care of. Now, your welfare program changes
2	from time to time, but this is, I think, fundamentally
3	that we have to take care of these people.
4	MR. CASE: Any other questions? All right,
5	Mr. Perkins, have you got anything to add to this
6	discussion?
7	MR. PERKINS: Only one thing, and at the
8	last meeting I was asked if I ever cut the budget and
9	I said yes, or certainly, as to what the record will
10	show, but I also made the statement that all of our
11	cuts were made with the concurrence of the State
12	Department of Education.
13	Now, we talked with each other, and it was
14	explained here that I have worked there three years,
15	and last year Dr. Earhart and I agreed that we would
16	cut the estimate by 2500 students. So, when 1 made the
17	statement, I did say we did cut the budget, but I also
18	said, and it was not in the record, and I don't know
19	why, but I said it was with the concurrence of the
20	State Department of Education.
21	We wouldn't do it arbitrarily, because it