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Battle of the Budget Brewing
Between House and Senate
By Ward Sims
Associated Press Staff Writer
JUNEAU UP) — The House, with
a budget battle brewing with the
Senate, took under consideration
Saturday a fiscal 1964 appropri
ations bill calling for the expendi
ture of $89,024,830 in state monies, j
The measure, drafted by the Re- 1
publican-controlled House Finance
Committee, also provides for the
expenditure of $61,233,500 in fed
eral program receipts.
Of the state monies, $77,945,230 j
would come from the basic general
fund.
Of the remainder, $4,944,800
would come from special funds,
$5,069,800 would come from the
equipment working capital fund
and $1,065,000 would come from
bond construction funds. j 1
In the proposed budget for fiscal :
1964 that he presented to the leg
islature on Feb. 5, Gov. Egan had
recommended a total expenditure
of $89,882,300 in state funds, of
which $78,972,000 would have
come from the general fund.
He had recommended expendi
tures of $4,969,000 from special
state funds, $5,025,600 from the
equipment working capital fund
and $915,000 from bond construc
tion fund.
He had also suggested an ex- j
penditure of $60,121,700 from fed- I
eral program receipts.
The House Finance Committee’s
version of the general appropria
tions bill, chairman Harold Strand
berg said, was $2,193,500 under
the figure which had been ham
mered out over the past 60 days
by the Joint Senate-House Finance
Committee.
There were strong indications
that even though the House Fi
I nance Committee bill could get
I through the lower chamber un
| scathed, it would run into serious
I difficulty in the Democratic-con
trolled Senate.
There was speculation that the
Senate, when it did receive the
appropriation bill, would either
restore the Joint Finance Commit
tee figures or, possibly even come
out with its own version of a
budget bill.
The House Finance Committee,
in a new wrinkle, decided to direct
the administration to do a little
budget trimming on its own hook.
The committee, in lining out the
operating budgets for the various
state departments and agencies,
listed appropriations totaling $900,
000 more than what is actually au
thorized by the budget bill.
The committee directed that the
administration take the responsi
bility for seeing that this $900,000
was lopped off its operating bud
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get and where it was to be trim
med.
Prior to the introduction of the
big money bill in the House short
ly before 6 Friday night, Strand
berg commented:
“After working with the Joint
Finance Committee for some 60
days, we arrived at a budget,
which, in the opinion of the Re
publican party was too high.
“The Democrats controlled the
Joint Finance Committee and it
was hard for the House Republi
cans, who were in the majority
on the House Finance Committee,
to make any cuts.”
Strandberg said that if in fund
ing the fiscal 1965 budget, the leg
islature were to use the same fig
ure approved by the Joint Finance
Committee, the state would be
$19,718,000 in the red on June 30,
1965, based on the administration’s
estimate of income during fiscal
’65.
The House Finance Committee
chairman said he believed the cuts
made by the House group would
still give a budget which “we
believe the administration and
Democrats can live with.”
He said that even with the cuts
made by the House Finance Com
mittee in the Joint Finance Com
mittee’s figures, the state would
be $14 million in the red on June
30, 1965, based on current revenue
and general fund balance estimates.
In a report accompanying its
version of the appropriation bill,
the House Finance Committee said
it had “attempted to give special
emphasis to those programs that
broaden the economic base of the
state and those programs providing
i important services to the citizens
of the state.
“Careful consideration has also
been given to badly needed capital
improvement projects.
“At the same time the commit
tee was conscious of the fact that
the revenues of the state will be
sharply reduced in fiscal 1964-65,
and, thereafter, attempted to keep
expenditures for the coming fiscal
year to a reasonable level.
“Two items of expenditure in
creases in the budget are matters
that are beyond direct legislative
control at this time, as follows:
1. The increases resulting from
the 5 per cent salary increase
granted to all state employes by
action of the last legislature.
2. Increased rental costs for
building space and for vehicles in
the various departments.”
Meherin Leaves $100,000 Estate
SEATTLE iff) —Joseph Meherin,
longtime Alaska food broker, who
died March 30, left an estate in
excess of $100,000 in trust for
his wife Stella, it was shown when
his will was admitted to probate
by Superior Judge Henry Cramer
Friday. Mrs. Meherin also re
ceives $27,500 of life insurance.
Mr. Meherin, one of the builders
of the Baranof Hotel in Juneau,
had been a Seattle resident.
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