The fiscal problem in Missouri

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Identifikator:: 1833271335

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-230042

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: The fiscal problem in Missouri

Place of publication:: New York

Publisher:: National Industrial Conference Board, Inc.

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: xvi, 359 S.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter IX. Financing the capital requirements of the State

Collection:: Economics Books

264 THE FISCAL PROBLEM IN MISSOURI there was a deplorable lack of suitable buildings and other facilities, particularly in the case of the penal and eleemosy- nary institutions. It was found also that a satisfactory building program for the institutions of higher education in the state had not been developed to an extent comparable with the progress made in other states with a capacity to support education approximately equal to that of Missouri. At many institutions there had been no important construc- tion for many years, and in order that a well-rounded program might be developed for the future a large part of the expenditures recommended by the Commission was for building at ‘these institutions. TasLe 82: EstiMaTED REQUIREMENTS FOR CAPITAL QutLAYSs AND EXTRAORDINARY REPAIRS Source: Report of the State Survey Commission Educational institutions. . ..$16,178,000 State aid: Construction of public school buildings. ............. 2,100,000 Eleemosynary institutions. ........ 3eeik 175,000 Penal institutions. . ................. £512,000 Administrative office building. ......... 500,000 Governor’s mansion. . . 150,000 139.615.000 A recommendation of $2.1 million for construction of public school buildings was included in a proposal of the Commission, which if put into effect would require that the state grant additional building aid to certain school dis- tricts. It was contemplated that many smaller districts would be consolidated, when the second step toward carrying out the school program of the Commission was taken, and that there would be no need for any part of the $2.1 million until the fourth year after the proposed state aid program went into effect. The amount of $2.1 million might, there- fore, be disregarded in considering the immediate needs for capital additions. The question may well be raised, how- ever, whether the state should not consider the advisability of making immediate provision for additional building aid in the interest of carrying the consolidation program for- ward as rapidly as possible. , oo Another recommendation involves the expenditure of

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