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we have to accept them, because we would have to set up a
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department superimposed over theirs to just make these
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estimates, and actually, in the past few years, fortunately
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for us, unfortunately for them, they have been the biggest
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reverter of any agency in the State.
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MR. RENNIE: But they revert for too reasons;
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primarily because they have not been able to hire the
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teachers that they need under the classroom formula ratio
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of pupil and teacher, and also the fact that the assessable
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base has always gone up. In the past ten years, it's gone
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up above the estimates and, of course, we thrashed this out,
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the accessible base, with Albert Ward of the Department of
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Assessments and Taxation, and Fiscal Research sits in on
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this. Actually, practically anyone who wants to sit in on
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it, in education, in the comptroller's office, because we
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always use this figure for the State debt requirement.
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THE CHAIRMAN: What I'm getting at, Jim, does this
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provision in the Constitution which is found in Paragraphs
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MR. RENNIE: Of Section 52?
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THE CHAIRMAN: — of Section 52, of Article 3,
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