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in nature and terse, as you have described.
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We want to subscribe to Article 3, support it
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100 per cent, in that money appropriated for schools not
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be diverted. Certainly, we want to keep that inviolate.
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There is a tendency, and I'm not going to burden you with
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examples, but there are occasions on a local level, and
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I realize this involves State funds, but it is hard for
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us to distinguish between State funds and local funds
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when we get our money to support our budget from State
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money and therefore it is pretty hard — we don't keep
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State funds as a separate account. It goes into our
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support of general educational funds. So, we would like
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to see that kept inviolate.
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Certainly, we want to support Article 3,
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Section 52, and the various subsections pointed out. You
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can have a law — we are operating where most of our
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funds come to us as a guaranteed $98 per pupil State
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support. You can have that as a law and the legislature
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passes it, but if our estimates, which are reviewed and
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supported by the State budget that goes to Annapolis,
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if the budget director or the Governor or somebody else
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