Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-04-28
SAVING effected BY
hl@ll,iS TRATIVE code
Governor Hart Gives Summary
Of First Year Under the
New System.

cost OF administration and n marked
improvement In the efficiency of the
state government have been brought
about by the administrative code dur
Ing the first year of its operation, Gov,
Louis + Hart said in speech deliv-
cred here Saturday night before mem
berR of the Republican state commit.
tee, the party's county chalrmen and
other guests at a dinner given under
the auspices Of the King County Young
Mems Republican club,
Summarizing the most striking feH.
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
s5,372656 has been reduced to ST.,
64S,7SS
IAN actual oyerdruft in the general
fund OF the state treasury on March
81, 1921, of $lO29,645.11 has been
wiped out
"a cash balance on March 81, 1922,
of $67057247, exclusive of poll tax
collections, existed in the general
fund.
"a reduction of SOC was made in
the general fund tax levy.
uAp ,pnrnn,o IN thn ganornI Tpp1
cash balance in the treasury of $l,7OO
2176S was obtained
"A reduction of 474 snIaried EN-
ployes in the state has been brought
about
THE administrative code has
brought about economy in government,
efficiency in service and a promise OF
further reduction in taxes"
Making a is Per Cent Saving.
Governor Hart said the ten admin.
i~trative 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 1870 saving of the money given
them for the 1928 biennial period,
and said that better showing can be
made during the coming year The
governor explained that when he ask,
ed the code departments, 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-twenty.fourth of the two years
appropriation each month-a 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 $1,25O,O00 and the state
officers estimated that unless there
was a change in governmental meth
DDS, the state would face deficiency
of $2,G0O,000 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.
Coordinatina 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
ence to discuss all state problems and
on the third Monday of each month
the code officials have 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 well as the courts, to reduce the
loss of life and injury to persons and
property by reckless automobile driv