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1	them, especially during the time when the legislature is
2	not in session.
3	One way to accomplish this flexibility is to pro-
4	vide a governmental emergency fund which is an appropriatioi
5	that can be utilized on the signature of the Governor and
6	the legislative leaders stating their intent to recommend
7	to the next legislature a deficiency appropriation to re-
8	place the money. This same type of technique can be used
9	to cover situations for Federal money coming in, where you
10	don't actually need cash, dollars, but you need authority
11	to spend it, and if the Governor and the legislative leaders
12	sign such a statement you would be able to use additional
13	monies from outside sources.
14	I think such a system would insure that the
15	authorizations to use such monies would never be lost and
16	that the Governor and the legislature and, most important,
17	the public would have the full picture in making decisions
18	on the taxing and expenditure of public monies.
19	I think such a constitutional provision would
20	have another very desirable effect, in that all monies woul<
21	be swept into a comprehensive system of expenditure.