An Evaluation of the System of Central Financial Control of Research in State Governments Bulletin of the National Research Council (1924) / Chapter Skim
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IV. Central Financial Control in Wisconsin
IV. Central Financial Control in Wisconsin
Pages 63-84
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The Wisconsin plan lays much more emphasis on general control of all administrative agencies by the legislature, places much greater reliance on the commission as an administrative agency and vests it with a considerable degree of self-control. In both states steps have been taken to secure central financial control, but Illinois has gone far beyond her northern neighbor in the degree to which such control has been developed.
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The University has charge of its own purchasing. The superintendent of public property purchases all permanent personal property, furniture, janitor and other service, and all other materials and supplies, except light, heat, power and water, and the materials specifically vested elsewhere.
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The two striking differences between the law of the Illinois system and the Wisconsin system are (1) the use in the latter of a board composed of the responsible legislative and executive officers as the central financial agency instead of an appointee of the governor;
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The chief scientific agencies are the Archaeological Society, the Entomology Division of the Department of Agriculture, the Conservation Commission, the Geological Survey, and in connection with it the Natural History Survey and the Soil Survey, the hygienic laboratories of the Board of Health, the Historical Society, the Horticultural Society, and the Psychiatric Institute. Some of these engage in research only to a very slight degree.
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This statute was, however, ineffective, and each division and department made its requests for appropriations directly to the finance committee. In 1913 the legislature required every public body to submit to the Board of Public Affairs an estimate of its revenues and expenditures for each fiscal year of the ensuing biennial period.
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Examination of the Wisconsin budgets for 1921-23 and 1923-25 discloses the fact that the Board of Public Affairs has made few reductions in the estimates of the scientific departments. The following table gives the amounts requested and allowed:
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Apiary Inspection...... White Pine Blister Rust.
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The review of the entire matter by the Board of Public Affairs may result in an amount being recommended to the legislative committee somewhat lower than that which the departments desire but the recommendations are in the hands of the department long before the legislative committee meets and if there is an item to which the department believes the board has not been entirely fair it has the opportunity of making a special presentation of such an item before the legislative committee." On the other hand there is a common feeling that the final appropriations are inadequate. "It is believed that our appropriation is · · .- .
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No one knew how much it was going to cost to finance the governrr~ent during the next fiscal period." After describing the present course of the budget, Governor Philipp continued, "Departments themselves as a rule no longer initiate appropriation measures nor concern themselves about the passage of the appropriation measures. They know that at the proper time they will be called upon to present their case and after that- it is up to the Finance Committee to champion their cause in the legislature.
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72 FINANCIAL CONTROL OF RESEARClI o t2 CO 'C':> CO .G C~ .~ ·~ 04 ~ oo ·C~ ¢ ~ .8 ·X o 60 1 c3 C~ ~ N .
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expenditures 100 98 109 119 138 185 243 273 264 Scientific expenditures 00 07 04 99 123 159 172 200 216 Three further matters remain to be considered in connection with the Wisconsin budget procedure, the degree of itemization, the system of continuing appropriations and the method of handling contingency funds. The Wisconsin budget with some exceptions is a lump-sum budget.
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' ~ ~ · T ~ ~ 11 1tS expenses are carefully _ , ~ ~ scrutinized, first, by the Board of Public Affairs, and then by the Joint Committee on Finance, before which it must explain and defend its financial record. If the Joint Committee finds it desirable to make no change, it so reports to the legislature; and in that event no legis ouager exactly as are all other agencies.
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Agricultural Experiment Station White Pine Blister Rust Eradication State Horticultural Society Geological and Natural History Surveys Lump sum, annual, non-lapsable Lump sum, continuing, non-lapsable Lump sum, continuing, non-lapsable Lump sum, continuing, non-lapsable Lump sum, annual, non-lapsable, with incidental continuing and annual lapsable Lump sum, continuing, non-lapsable Lump sum, continuing, non-lapsable Lump sum, continuing, non-lapsable Lump sum, annual, non-lapsable Lump sum, continuing, non-lapsable Lump sum, continuing, non-lapsable ~ In this case the governor and the commissioner of agriculture may discontinue expenditure if the white pine blister rust has been eradicated or has passed beyond the possibility of control. Finally a few words Nay be said with reference to the Wisconsin method of handling contingency funds.
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The Board of Control acts as the purchasing agent for all penal and charitable institutions of the state, including the Psychiatric Institute. The State Highway Commission purchases all its own road-building materials except cement, which is secured by the Cement Purchasing Commission.
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From a table in the biennial report of the Printing Board it appears that the total printing expenditures of the Academy of Sciences, Archaeological Society, Agricultural Experiment Station, Agricultural Experiment Association, Board of Forestry, Board of Health, Geological and Natural History Surveys and Historical Society fluctuated in the fiscal Years 1906 to l91a~ from $16.353 , 1 mi lab ~ ^ ~^ 1 ~ 1 ~ ~ to ~61,629, but were only 54,000 greater in the aggregate of the last four years as compared with the first four. The investigating committee asserted that too much printing was being done, too many
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Thus proof-reading for the University of Wisconsin, the Normal Schools, the State Historical Society, the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, the Wisconsin Archaeological Society and the Geological and Natural History Surveys is done by these institutions or surveys rather than, as is the usual rule, by the Printing Board employees. The power of eliminating matter from public printing vested in the Printing Board is not to be construed to include the power to change the thought or findings of any book, report, or other public printing.
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The governor is authorized to fix the number of copies of reports by the Conservation Commission under subsection 3 of section 23.11; the Printing Board orders such books and other printing for the Geological and Natural History Surveys as in its discretion it deems wise. The binding is likewise usually fixed by law, but in the cases of the State Historical Society, Geological and Natural History Surveys, Academy of Sciences, and Archaeological Society is such as the Printing Board shall order.
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The University of Wisconsin had an appropriation in 1922-23 of $35.000 to encourage scientific investigation and productive scholarship. This appropriation was reduced by the Joint Finance Committee bill of the 1923 legislature to $30,000 for each of the fiscal years of the present biennium.
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"On the basis of the action of the last three legislatures, it would appear that the sentiment in this state toward this class of work was favorable and that succeeding legislatures would in all probability look with equal favor on continuing the appropriation and, upon proper showing by the university authorities, to increasing it." "The usual procedure is for each one to ask for more than he really thinks he needs so that there is room for pruning. Then the Finance Committee as a rule treats each appropriation according as they think each is most necessary for the two years, and that really determines how some departments are better provided for at times than others.
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191~1923 ~ {ma. Report OD State Printiu~ 1914; Joint Investigating Committee on the Apiece of State Printing 1915!
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