Evening star., 1949-12-17
Maryland u. Requests
|S5,766,585 in State
Funds in 50 Budget
Special Dispeteh 10 The stor

BALTIMORE, Dec. 1.-THE
University of Maryland is asking
the State for a $5,766,585 appro-
priation for 1850, the same
amount it received this year.
The budget submitted yesterday
to James R. Rennie, State budget
director. proposes expenditures to-
falling $14,581,566.70. or $144,613.59
less than the current working
budget.
In addition to the money it ex-
poets to get from the State, the
university anticipates $8,032,-
1881 in the special funds from
student fees, hospital and dental
receipts, campus enterprises and
other miscellaneous sources, and
$638,179.80 in Federal funds.
The Board of Regents cut de-
partmental requests by more than
s1,000,000.
154-Page Document.
Details of proposed expenditures
are outlined in a 154-page docu-
ment resembling the working
budget in many respects.
For the first time legislators will
have full details of the univer-
sity's budget proposals before
them during their consideration
of the State budget bill.
Copies of the detailed docu-
ment, with the Governors allow
ances added, are to be distributed
to all members of the General
Assembly at the time the Gov
ernor's budget is presented at the
regular session next year.
But the detail that is to be in
cluded in the Governors budget
and in the budget bill that con-
trolls subsequent expenditures-is
essentially the same as before.
1t is again in lump sums-with
special funds Jumped into a single,
large fund. The university would
still be free to amend its detailed
budget at will within the lump
sum appropriations.
The Legislature would not be
able to eliminate specific items:
it could only as now. reduce lump
sums.
Would Eliminate BPW.
Further, the material submitted
to Gov. Lane and Mr.. Rennie,
contemplates a change in pro-
cedure that would eliminate the
Board of Public Works from the
university budget picture.
In the past, the university has
prepared highly detailed work.
ing budget after the Legislature
has adjourned and submitted it,
as required by the budget bill, to
the Board of Public Works for its
approval.
Subsequent amendments to the
working budget have not, how
ever, gone to the Board of Public
Works.
Now, in response to pressure for
more information, the university
has presented the detailed budget
first and proposes that legislative
action on the lump-sum items be
the end of it.
May Demand Supervision.
When this was brought to his
attention yesterday, Mr.. Rennie
indicated that he might restore
the requirement for post-legislative
supervision by the Board of Public
Works where the university has
substituted the. Board of Re-
gents" in the budget data.
Usually, the university's esti-
mate of special fund receipts has
climbed considerably between the
time the Legislature acted and the
time the working budget went to
the Board of Public Works several
months later.
The jump this year was $751; >
324.9O.
Under the plan suggested yes
terday the regents would have
final say on expenditure Of such
funds without. the formality OF
Board of Public Works action, al
though a budget amendment
would still be called for. In prac-
tice, such amendments are rarely
lpresenfoS