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LAND-GRANT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES
ditures for the past biennium together with estimates of funds
needed must be presented. The institutions of eight other States
are required to submit only detailed expenditures and records show-
ing their needs. One institution reported that it must furnish com-
plete data on the use of all its funds. Two others in addition
to filling out blank forms provided by the budget agency submit sup-
plementary statements giving reasons for every item involving in-
creased funds. The budget agency in two States after receiving the
requests, actually visits the institutions to ascertain whether enhanced
appropriations are justified. Complete salary lists must be presented
by two land-grant institutions.
Another question is whether the institutions submit records of
their income from Federal funds, student fees, endowments, trust
funds, and other non-State sources. In many of the institutions
such funds represent approximately 50 per cent of the total revenues.
The budget agencies, according to the survey reports, require the
submission of information covering all the items named from 27 of
the institutions. There is one university which does not present
data specially prepared, but refers the budget agency to its financial
reports. In the case of four other institutions the income from stu-
dent fees, endowments, trust funds, and other non-State sources is
not included as a part of the information asked for by the budget
agency, but the figures are held in readiness by the institutions for
submission in the event they are requested. The State legislatures
of 27 States in their final action on budget estimates consider the
revenues of the institutions from these sources. Eleven land-grant
institutions report that they have developed a plan of State financial
support extending over a period of years that has relieved somewhat
the detailed work of securing the indorsement and approval of
requests by budget agencies. In the submission of budget data it is
found that the institutions in 15 States are required to incorporate
Federal funds received. The funds are included as a part of the
total budget and deducted as paid from other sources in 13 instances.
One State legislature has until recently reappropriated the Federal
funds to the institution, an action entirely unnecessary under the pro-
visions of Federal acts. In another the Federal funds are included
in the budget.
A matter of vital concern to the land-grant institutions is whether
opportunities are given for their officers to appear before the budget
agencies to explain or define requests for funds. It is also equally
important whether they are permitted to go before the legislative
committees and present similar explanations where the budget
agency has altered the requests and reduced the estimates. Reports
indicate that in 31 States, the institutions have the privilege of
appearing both before the budget agency and the legislative com-42
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