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the salaries provided by law or to transport the children
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as required by law, and I think that is why we have man-
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dated section.
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Legislators quarrel about this, but I think
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in the final analysis, they understand it, but it is
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just the fact that the bulk of our budget cannot be
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reduced by the General Assembly. It comes down to, in
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the final analysis, what can they reduce?
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They can reduce the headquarters, the office
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of the State Superintendent of Schools, and that is a
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small way, but they don't get to the millions of dollars
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which goes to the support of the operation of the
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schools out in the counties and in Baltimore City.
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THE CHAIRLADY: The budget, though, as pre-
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sented to the legislature and unalterable by the Governor
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is one which is prepared by the budget director and not
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by the school — and is not the School Superintendent's
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sole right or responsibility to present.
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DR. ZIMMERMAN: Well, we prepare the estimates
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for minimum salaries, the other costs and transportation.
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We submit them to the budget director and he in turn
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