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Avoid Commitment

By reducing the bill $30
million the committee tried to
avoid committing the state to
spend all of the state's 1972-74
budget biennium. Mr. Smith
estimated that the committee's
version of the bill would
appropriate about $72 million
of the new available funds and
juggle about $10 million in
general fund appropriations
made by the 1972 Assembly.

The salary adjustments
would allow some groups of
underpaid employees to receive
salary upgradings of at least a
one-step increase of about five
per cent in their classification.