 Thanks to his fiscal skills and precision characteristic of his long political career, Bond balanced interest accrued between the state's unclaimed funds and pension accounts to raise $40 million for the renovation of the Kansas capitol building in Topeka, the first since World War I.He called it, “the only thing I’ve done that will have lasting value and importance.” In his last term, he pushed particularly hard for policy changes including for higher legislative salaries and the reshaping of K-12 education.