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salaries were exempted at that time or not from that cut,
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or the Board of Public Works.
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MR. HOFF: They took a ten. per cent reduction.
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MR. RENNIE: The schoolteachers did?
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MR. HOFF: Yes.
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MR. RENNIE: Along with the State employees?
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MR. HOFF: Yesi
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MR. RENNIE: If this didn't prevent that happen-
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ing, — well, this simply refers to the budget itself, the
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initial presentation of the budget. I'll put it this V7ay,
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Dick. I think the Department of Education would get the
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same budget under the mandatory items in the law, with that
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in or out of the Constitution, if that will answer your
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question.
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THE CHAIRMAN: What you are saying is that it
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is surplusage?
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MR. RENNIE: Ves.
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MR. SACHS: Is there anything besides surplusage
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that is wrong with it? Does it hamper you or impede you
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in any other way by being in the Constitution, or do you
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think it affects the State adversely?
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