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make us unpopular w ith the public.
He suggested that we make various
changes in the Rules and Regulations,
and that we also promote salary raises,
but that we leave to Legislature their
own process of raising this much need
ed money.
Civil Service Director Bjarne Erick-
sen felt a bit discouraged about the
accomplishments that had been made
by his committee, realizing however
that slow progress seemed to be the
most concrete. He thanked the various
members of his committee for the
hours of faithful work they had con
tributed.
Law and Legislative Director Claude
M. Johns, had little to report at this
time, but discussed possible recom
mendations that might be made.
Junior Past President I. A. De-
France, stated that the Association had
made great strides in their Civil Ser
vice program. He commended Bjarne
Ericksen and his committee for the
effort they had put forth, in their
many meetings with Mr. Colman, to
bring about the many suggestions that
were incorporated in the final adopted
report of the Rules and Regulations.
Mr. DeFrance felt that the Civil Ser
vice law and Retirement Law should
have a few minor changes, beneficial
to the employees, and felt these
changes would take very little, if any
legislation. He also brought up for
discussion the m atter of deduction of
expenses from employees accounts for
the running of the Retirement System.
Mr. Floyd Query, President, then in
troduced George K. Aiken, State Bud
get Director, speaker of the morning
session.
Mr. Aiken explained to the General
Council members the necessary steps
taken in setting up a biennial budget
for presentation to the Legislature. He
stated that there would be a deficit
under the present set up, depending
upon requests from the various depart
ment heads. The budget that will be
presented to the Governor will be a
balanced budget. Mr. Aiken stated that
in presenting a balanced budget many
of the state-wide functions will not
be performed to the degree that is de
sired by the people of Oregon. This is
the problem which will be placed
squarely in the hands of the legislators
for their solution.
Mr. Aiken enumerated the number
of financial problems that would have
to be faced before any type of budget
could suffice. He particularly men
tioned the Department of Higher Edu
cation and the housing problem at the
University of Oregon and hoped that
some procedure might be taken to over
come these handicaps.
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