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Executive Records, Governor J. Millard Tawes, 1959-1967
Volume 82, Volume 2, Page 536   View pdf image (33K)
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Most of you know that early this year, I submitted for consideration by
the General Assembly of Maryland a budget that called for substantial
increases in appropriations for education, health, welfare and other State
services. Following a pattern of the previous five years, most of these
increases in state expenditures served to finance the fight against poverty,
ignorance and ill-health. In addition to normal budgetary expansion, it
also became apparent that a bold new program for the support of public
education in Maryland, including substantial increases in teachers'
salaries, must be undertaken if Maryland was to continue to maintain
its position of leadership in the field of education. Following the recom-
mendation of the Legislative Council's Special Committee on Taxation
and Fiscal Affairs, I included in the supplemental budget a sum in excess
of $16 million to finance this new school program. This program, which
went into effect on July 1, 1964, has been praised by prominent men and
women who are recognized experts in the field of public education. I
have always liked to consider myself a responsible public official—one
who believes that government should be responsive to the needs of the
people it serves and that public servants should, at all times, be faithful
to the laws they are sworn to uphold. In this latter regard, I would like
to point out—and this is important to remember—that the laws of Mary-
land as interpreted by three Attorney Generals and the Court of Appeals
of Maryland require that the State operate under a balanced budget.

In order to achieve a balanced budget, I should like to point out that, I
must accept the estimates of revenue of the three member State Board of
Revenue Estimates in the preparation of the budget prior to its submis-
sion to the General Assembly for review. The members of this board are
State Comptroller Louis L. Goldstein, who is chairman; Budget Director
James G. Rennie and State Treasurer John A. Luetkemeyer. It is incum-
bent upon me to prepare the budget within the framework of their
report to me. Using the estimates of revenue furnished me by this
Board of very responsible State officials, I must compare future antic-
ipated income to the State with planned expenditures to determine if the
proposed budget is balanced. If, with these figures before me, I find that
the proposed budget is not balanced then I must either cut expenditures or
raise the necessary revenue through the enactment of a tax program.
During the last session of the General Assembly, I was not in the least
disposed to eliminating necessary expenditures for public education,
thereby shortchanging future generations of Marylanders merely to sat-
isfy the demands of present day critics. Nor was I inclined to withhold
financial support from other essential programs such as health, men-
tal hygiene and public welfare.

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