The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1922-06-16
SAVING EFFECTED BY
Administrative CODE
Governor Hart Gives Summary
of First Year Under the
New System.

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state government have been brought
about by the administrative code dur
ing the first year of its operation, Gov.
Louis F. Hart said in a speech deliv-
cred here Saturday night before mem
bers OF the Republican state commit
tee, the party's county chairmen and
other guests at a dinner given under
the auspices of the King County Young
Mems Republican club.
Summarizing the most striking fea-
lures of the first years experience
under the code passed by the last
legislature, Gov. Hart said:
The administrative code has proved
its efficiency
More than one million dollars has
been saved
THE 1920 state general fund tax of
s5,372,656 has been reduced to 81
64S,78s.
AN actual overdraft in the general
fund of the state treasury on March
81, 1921, of $l,029,645.11 has been
, wiped out
"A cash balance on March 81, 1922,
of S670.572.47, exclusive of poll tax
collections, existed in the general
fund.
"A reduction of 500 was made in
the general fund tax levy.
IAN increase in the general fund
cash balance in the treasury of s1,700,-
PISS was obtained.
"A reduction of 474 salaried en-
ployes in the state has been brought
about.
The administrative cod e h S
brought about economy in government,
efficiency in service and promise of
further reduction in taxes"
Making a IS Per Cent Saving.
Governor Hart said the ten admin
istrative code departments during the
first year of the biennial period had
saved half the sum from their appro-
priations that will be needed to effect
the $50 saving of the money given
them for the 1929 biennial period,
and said that a better showing can be
made during the coming year. The
governor explained that when he ask
ed the code departments, a year ago,
to save 1870 of their appropriations he
was trying to guard against the old
practice Of dividing an appropriation
into "a parts and attempting to spend
one-twentyfourth of the two years
appropriation each month"; practice
that made certain the entire amount
would be spent and probably that un-
expected demands near the end of the
period would result in creating def
ciencies. BY starting out with the
firm determination to save, the gov
ernor expected to be able to return a
surplus instead of asking the legisla-
ture to make good a deficiency and
the first years experience has JUST.
fled this belief
The last legislature was obliged to
make deficiency appropriations aggre-
eating about s1,250.000 and the state
officers estimated that unless there
was a change in governmental meth
DDS, the state would face a deficiency
of S2,600000 at the end of the present
biennium Not only has this danger
of deficiency been averted, but the
code departments are saving 1870 of
their appropriations.
Coordnatine the Government.
Governor Hart said that on the first
Monday of each month all elective
officers and heads of each code de-
partment meet in a general confer
m oil =
on the third Monday of each month
the code officials have a conference
of their own.
Every officer and director feels
more keenly and directly interested in
the state government broadens his
mind and the scope of his labor so
that he and his department more read
lily cooperate with the other depart
ments of the state government and
eliminates the provincial thought of
each fellow for his own department"
said the governor
This spirit of cooperation has been
extended so that the state is cooper
ating with sheriffs and police officers,
as we'll as the courts, to reduce the
loss of life and injury to persons and
property by reckless automobile driv-
ers and also to cut down the sale Of
narcotics.
A conference of taxing bodies of
the state, held in the executive offices
nearly a year ago, led TO effective tax
reduction movements throughout the
state later in the year, Governor Hart
+ said
Where Taxes Were Cut
Governor Hart called attention to
the fact that the legislature by adopt.
+ ing the POLO instead of the 1910 sys-
+ TEN Of raising state school funds and
/ by increasing the millage tax for
higher educational institutions had
+ raised these taxes and the state equal
ization committee was unable to inter
fere with them. Likewise the mill tax
+ levy voted by the people for payment
Of soldiers bonus could not be touch
ed. The only two funds over which
the equalization committee had con.
troll, the general fund and military
fund, were reduced 500 and 331s %
/ or s2,64s,7ss and s1l7,724 respectively
Expenses of the administrative code
E departmenfs are met very lareely frn