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1	be a great day when the public educators and the public
2	school people get firmly latched on the Federal tee,
3	because when they come up against the Defense Department,
4	in terms of weighing their interests against Defense, then
5	we are going to see in a very critical fashion the same
6	thing that goes on at the local level and the State .level,
7	in terms of this balancing that the Governor must .do in
8	developing his budget process.
9	Now, the contingency fund I want to mention
10	considerably because it used to annoy me considerably.
11	When I re-did the State Budget System here, I took this
12	contingent fund away from the Board of Public Works and
13	gave it to the Governor. When the bill came out, why it
14	was back in the hands of the Board of Public Works and
15	I guess they had to give this Board of Public Works some-
16	thing to do. So, it went back there.
17	THE CHAIRMAN: That was in 1951 and there was a
18	real good reason for that, John.
19	MR. DOHAHO: That's true. There was a slight
20	political difference. Another thing 1 think the Constitutic
21	ought to clearly set forth as a matter of policy is the