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Excerpt from Report on Budget Procedure, Board of Education, City of Detroit, 1917 In considering the following discussions of budget methods as employed in the Department of Education and the recommendations which are appended, it must be borne in mind that a budget system is not of itself designed to bring economy in appropriations and efficiency in expenditure. To quote from an article recently appearing on state budgets: "A budget system is an effective agency for better and more economical government, but only to the extent that it acts as a mirror in which affairs pertaining to public finance are made usable and intelligible to the general public. Too, it contemplates that all estimates be compiled in easy, understandable tables, so that legislators and the chief executive can readily locate doubtful items and focus attention on them." Whatever criticism is implied in this report refers to the budget procedure and not to the Board of Education as individuals, because it is realized that the present personnel of the Board merely continued a system which it found and which had been in practice for a great number of years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.