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<br />MR. SMITH: <br /> <br />"The Governor bought your budget as pre- <br />sented?" <br /> <br />MR. SPARKS: <br /> <br />"There were some adJustments and we made <br />those before they were presented to the Joint <br />Budget Committee." <br /> <br />MR. KROEGER: <br /> <br />"Could I ask Mr. Smith how his department <br />fared?" <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />MR. SMITH: <br /> <br />"Our budget was predicated on tabulations <br />and realignment of the division offices, as you <br />know, and othe~ areas and we were cut drastical- <br />ly. The Governor recommended, this is coming <br />off the top of my head, some $2,400,000 in our <br />next year's budg~t and they cut us $216,000. <br />There is an additional problem there, $249.000 <br />that we requested in a supplemental appropria- <br />tion for purposes of gearing up and to do the <br />things that had to be done in this early water <br />year, April, May and June, in conjunction with <br />our actions with the courts, some of which I am <br />sure you are familiar with. Out of the supple- <br />mental we got zero. So in addition to the <br />$,2l6,000 cut, of course,: there are some of <br />'~~se things that would have carried forwa.rd <br />into the year which, of course, we cannot" <br />accomplish. But we think we were drastically <br />cut too. However, in come of the things that <br />we propose to do aren't really identifiable: <br />The Governor cut our 'budget by several hundred <br />thousand. There is the matter of phasing ,in <br />personnel and then Joint Budget cut us another <br />$216.000." <br /> <br />MR. KROEGER: <br /> <br />"With all the new demands on your depart- <br />ment will you be able to accomplish these <br />things?" <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />MR. SMITH: <br /> <br />"I certainly hope so but the thing that <br />bothers me the most is that if we moved into <br />some of the areas that we will have to ,this <br />summer and find ourselves to be in a tight spot <br />next year, we would hope previously that you <br />could go in for an emergency or supplemental <br />