The General Assembly of Virginia biennially makes available vast sums of money to be expended for capital outlay purposes. Although much has been done in recent years to systematize expenditure of these funds in an effort to insure that the State receive full value for the money which is spent, the General Assembly at its 1962 Session, feeling that it should be more fully advised as to the program, adopted a resolution directing the Virginia Advisory Legislative Council to make a study of the subject.

The Council selected John H. Daniel, member of the House of Delegates and member of the Council, Charlotte Court House, as Chairman of a Committee to make the initial study and report to it. Selected to serve with Mr. Daniel were the following: Landon R. Wyatt, State Senator, Danville, Vice-Chairman; Ralph A. Beeton, banker, Arlington; E. R. English, building contractor, Altavista; J. Ambler Johnston, architect, Richmond; L. M. Kuhn, Director of the Budget, Richmond; J. Clifford Miller, Jr., businessman, Richmond; W1alter S. Newman, representative of colleges, Blacksburg; W. E. Vellines, Jr., Chief Engineer, C. & P. Telephone Company, Richmond.