Executive orders · Governor Robert D. Ray
Executive Order 12
Signed by Governor Robert D. Ray on September 25, 1972.
What it does
AI summary This order transfers the responsibility for maintaining and protecting the state capitol grounds, buildings, and equipment from the Department of Buildings and Grounds and the Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds to the General Services Department. The State Comptroller is directed to transfer all appropriated and remaining funds from the Department of Buildings and Grounds and the Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds to the General Services Department. These changes take effect on September 25, 1972.1
The Legislature’s description: Transfers the responsibility and funding for the maintenance and security of the State Capitol Complex to the General Services Department from the Department of Buildings and Grounds and the Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds.
Read the order
.~~ EXECUTIVE ORDER NUMBER TWELVE WHEREAS, the Governor's Economy Committee, appointed in 1969, recommended that the general administrative functions of state government should be centralized in one department to increase the effectiveness of all state agencies and reduce the cost of state government; and WHEREAS, the First Session of the 64th Iowa General Assembly passed an Act establishing a new General Services Department, which will assume various specified duties, powers and responsibilities of the Superintendent of Buildings an~ Grounds, the State Vehicle Dispatcher, the State Printing Board, the Superintendent of Printing, the State Comptroller and the Executive Council over the next 18 months; and WHEREAS, the r .esult of the transfer of these duties to the General Services Department will be better coordination and control of administrative functions of State Government, with consequent financial savings through centralization: NOW, THEREFORE, I, Robert D. Ray, Governor of the State of Iowa, pursuant to the powers granted me in Section 14 of Chapter 84 of the Laws of the 64th General Assembly, First Session, do hereby authorize and direct the transfer of the powers, duties, functions, responsibilities providing for the proper maintenance and protection of the state capitol grounds, equipment and all other state buildings, grounds, and equipment at the seat of government as given to the Department of Buildings and Grounds and the Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds respectively, to the General Services Depart - ment. For purposes of implementing this transfer, I hereby authorize and direct the State Comptroller, pursuant to Section 13 of Chapter 84 of the Laws of the 64th General Assembly, First Session, to transfer and allocate the moneys appropriated and remaining in the name of the Department of Buildings and Grounds and the Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds to the General Services Department . The transfers directed above shall take effect on September ~~' 1972. IN TESTIMONY WP.EREOF , I have hereunto subscribed my n~me and caused the Great Seal of the State of Iowa to be affixed. D~~t Des Moines, Iowa, this ~day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred seventy-two.
From the text in the order’s PDF. Older orders were scanned, so a few words may be garbled; the signed PDF is the official version.