The San Francisco call., 1904-04-30
SEEKS A LARGE
APPROPRIATION
Board of Works Files Esti-
mate of Expenditures in
the Next Municipal Budget
WANTS THREE MILLIONS
Question of Specific Improve
mentS to Be. Made Is
Left to the Supervisors

The Board Of Public Works yesterday
transmitted to the Board Of Super
visors its estimate OF required appro-
priations for its various departments
in the municipal budget Of the next
iscal year. The board asks for an ag-
gregate of nearly $4,000, 900, the exact
amount being S2.S46.541 80.
The board has asked for the sum Of
sL763.1l for public improvements in
response to the demands of property
owners and Improvement clubs, leav-
ing 10 the Supervisors the question Of
the specific improvements. for which 1t
viii provide the necessary funds. The
recapitulation Of the estimate follows:
General office. s27.24o: bureau OF light and
Bureau Of buildings-(a) Division OF archi-
lecture. S23 go; lb) division OF maintenance
and repair-Ofhce superintendent public build
inss, S432o; cleaning OF city Hail. SS6.l2s;
Watchman. City Hail S10S0; maintenance OF
elevators and heating plant, SIS 676 %; repairs.
city Hall, SS0.075 cleaning. Hall OF Justice,
ss4s6 -; maintenance OF elevators and boilers.
repairs. Hall OF Records $1,000. htting up
rooms, City Hall and Hall OF Justice, Sl5So0
dSt sIs $50 Pooe pBlrment ssoe5 coah
$50 500. Ainsshouse. sic. $50; Pesthouse. $500:
BUREAU OF STREETS.
Bureau OF stneets-Offce. $1,000: inspector
OF corporation trenches, $500; investigation OF
complaints. etc. $1,000; repair OF sewers. S69,-
O60s cleaning sewers and cesspools, SO, 09o; re-
pairing basalt and cobble streets. S75,9oO; cor
porstion ward S26. .535; maintenance OF draw
bridges. ST. 500. concrete repair work. $3.50
cleaning and sprinkling streets. S253.e77; re-
naacadamized streets. 5000: repairs TO bitumin-
Gus rock pavements. sol. 800; repairs 70 streets
on water front 10000; total. $612.232.
Bureau % englneering-City Engineer and
assistant $500: division Of street and lot
etc. S26 400; precise levels. $3.50; engineering
supervision. $500. general sewer plans. etc.
S660O; laboratory. S2700: grade changes. etc.
$500 section map ot city, etc. $500; record
room. S12O0: general Office work. S03O0: sup
rlies and materials. etc. $1,000: total. Sl09 $50
Permanent nlprOvemenrs-Electric lighting.
city Hall lamps $1,000: City Hall and Hall OF
Justice SIS 500; Fire Department. Ss9. 600;
sewer reconstruction. SD $50. relaying basslt
rock streets. $50. repaying accepted streets,
etc. S4e9. .435. reconstruction Of sewers. S65S.
500: rights of way for drainage S25. .o00 work
in front % city property. SlS1962; culverts.
$500 miscellaneous improvements, 500. 900;
total Sl.768ll7. erand total s., s46,54l 80.
SALARIES REDUCED.
Only three salaries are reduced in
the estimate. that Of Chief BOokkeeper
Leavy. from S175 to $780, Clerk J. b.
Garland. from $50 TO s125. and Clerk
n Fraser. from S125 to 500.
Among the improvements desired to
be constructed are the following:
Fire houses in Richmond district San
Bruno road. 1918 stockton street. 300 Mason
street Twentieth street. between Connecticut
ard Mission. and the House Of Correction
lot 81 an aggregate cost OF Ss9.O00.
Sewer Instruction various streets.
SO ESQ relaglng hasalt block streets SI63. $50
resrlrfacirr htunsinous rock pavements ST3.-
F2e. reuaVtng Main street So. COO: Mission
sire from OnondaEa avenue 10 county line,
SQ2 300. Lyon street. S70.00o: Fourth street
from Market 90 Berry including its widening.
$50 500 ard Mission street from East 10
Ninrh. S115.o0o.
NeN se,vers on sixth street from Tehama
70 Brennan $4,000. East P0trero district main
sewers So. 200. sewers. Division, Ninth King,
Seventh and Channel streets. S25l 800: sewer
On Firth street from Clemeutua TO Bryant
SEA 0OO. rnain sewers in Sunnvside district
SIS. 200 paving and sewerire OF u street. from
FIrst avenue to Great Highway. sS6.S75.