The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-01-19
ABOLITION OF
DEPARTMENTS
NO BIG SAVING
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list Of agencies to be abolished.
The bill as it now stands is
being advocated as an economy
measure, and would eliminate
about 100000 in expenditures,
although three Of the agencies it
iwOuld abolish are now saving the
state fully 100000 year.
| These three agencies are the
budget bureau, the division of
purchase and contract and the
! department of personnel. The
/ abolition of the industrial COM
L mission could not have been ad-
! vocated as an economy measure,
however, since it not only does
not cost the taxpayers of the
/ state a cent, but has brought
revenue into the state treasury
amounting TO S58,041 in excess
of the cost OF the commission.
Nor could the abolition of the
budget bureau and the repeal of
the executive budget act be rep
resented as an economy move,
since it is conceded that the OPP
Grafton of the budget act has
saved the state from 100000
to S4,0OO,O0O a year ever since
it has been in effect. So it was
! necessary to sandwich these
agencies in between others that
icould be abolished and effect a
saving in order to make the en-
tire move appear to be one in
| the interest Of economy.
The bill is considered as being
one of the smoothest documents
of its sort ever offered here.
The principal state agencies it
would abolish. the cost Of these
agencies based on the 1885
appropriations bill, and the
amounts which these agencies
have bee nsaving the taxpayers
. of the state annually, are as
: follows:
2 Corporation commission, cost
c to state $50, $50, what they save
!, taxpayers 100000; board Of
n equalization, cost $4,000, saw
5 inc Sl,OO0.OOO: budget bureau,
= cost $4,000. saving $4,000, 900 ;
personnel department, cost S.
, S70. saving $l,OO0,000; purchase
\ department, cost SIS, 2G0, saving
| SI,OO0,0O0: executive counsel,
cost $3.50, saving $4,000; his
] torical commission, cost $17,150,
!, saving $4,000; board of chart
: ties, welfare, S30,6l0. Total
cost to state $155,810. Total
saving to taxpayers S6,950,0Oo.
In addition to the agencies
listed above, the bill proposes to
abolish the state ship and water
: commission. long obsolete and no
longer costing the state cent
! the transportation advisory COM
mission also obsolete, and inact-
i've; the North Carolina industrial
. commission, which is not sup
ported from state funds, but
: which brings revenue into the
$ state treasury; the office OF
president Of the North Carolina
y railroad and all juvenile courts
e in the state. But the abolition
: Of all these would not save the
;, state a cent, since none Of them
are supported by the state. :,
The bill also proposes to abol-
: ish the tax commission, but ia
: set it up again or transfer its
:. duties to the commission of rev,
= enue, so that little Or no savire
: would result. 1t would also abO!
:. Iish the department of conserba-
ton and development, but trans
= fer all it's duties to the depart
ment of agriculture, so tina the
saving would result.
So when the bill is finally
Ianalyzed, it is apparent that the
- lintroducers would sacrifice a saw
II ing to the taxpayers of S6,950,
t. 600 a year resulting from the op
5. erations of these departments II
order to save less than $16O,OO(
: year In the expenditure o:
state money.
: The bill was referred to TIT
d committee on governmental; re
= organization and is not expected
~ to emerge from the committee II
- anything like the form it went IN
- In fact, it is doubtful If the oil
:. ever energies from the commute
: at all, since there are indication
that committee substitute bill
: will be drawn in almost all cases