Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-16
ALL CITY HEADS
BUT MAYOR ASK
FUND INCREASE
Great improvements Planned if
Programs Outlined in Various
Departments Garry.

Extensive improvements in the adj
minlstration of the various branches
OF the city government will be ont
lined when all city departments be-
gin the preparation of their budgets
for the new year this week.
With the single exception of that
headed by Mayor Woodward every
department will ask an increase in
appropriation. Mayor Woodward is
satisfied with his salary and he has
passed the word to his subordinates
that they will have to be.
II the programs outlined by the
heads OF the various departments
could be carried out, 1914 would be
year OF tremendous improvements
for Atlanta. Officials recognize many
needs and are arranging their budgets
TO provide for them. Citizens are
organizing into clubs for better
schools, new fire stations, improved
streets and sewers.
Demands Exceed Funds.
The sad part of it is that the total
demands will far exceed the city's
supply of cash. All requests will be
referred to the new COUNCIL Finance
Committee to be awarded such sums
as that body thinks equitable.
Thought the Finance Committee
will have nearly s5,O0O.OOO to dis
tribute, an increase, estimated by city
officials, of $3.50 600 over the income of
1913, there will be such an unsatis-
ned demand for money that the need
OF bond issue or an increase in the
tax rate will become acute.
IhlS situation already Is indicated
ny interviews by members of the
Board of EuCation who are pleading
1or amelloration of the overcrowded
conditions Of the schools: the Fourth
Ward's fight for the completion of
the Butler street and Highland ave-
nue. sewers, and such larger projects
as the plaza and the central market.
The new Finance Committee will
nave more ready cash than any COM
mittee in years because no moral OBJ
1gation debts will be carried over,
But Mayor Woodward will not stand
Tor any new moral obligation con-
tracts, the means by which so many
important improvements have been
made when the current revenue was
not sufticient for them and the ca.
pacity of the committee will be
greatly curbed.
Mayor to Insist on Clear Record.
Mayor woodward gave this view
of the situation Saturday:
i have not decided whom | will
appoint chairman of the Finance
Committee. My principal effort will
be to keep the city on a sound finan-
cial basis, free from debt The amount
of the revenue will have to deter
mine what improvements will be
made"
Altogether there should be nearly
100000 for extension of departments
and special improvements next wear
The principal items to be urged are
as follows:
Fifty thousand dollars for the com
pletion of the Butler street and High
land avenue sewers Open sewers
now run through thickly populated
sections.
One hundred and six thousand dol
lars for the new fire alarm system.
Fifty thousand dollars for a new
English Commercial Girls Hig'1
School Building.
A large increase in the appropria =
tons for schools, including several
new grammar schools, Improvement
in the building of the Girls High
School and increases in the pay OF
the teachers.
More Money for Police.
Appropriations for more policemen
and increases in the pay of members
of the present force.
From $4,000 to $4,000 for a new
cyclorama building at Grant Park
More money for general park i'm
provements and for Fairgrounds.
Appropriations for fire stations an6
automobile apparatus for the Eighth
Fifth and First Wards.
Funds for a nurses dormitory al
the Grady Hospital and enlargement
of the Battle Hill tuberculosis San
itarium.
Fifty thousand dollars for the i'm
provement of Spring street.
The amounts that will be needed 70!
the central market and the plaza are
uncertain as yet. Committees now
are at work on these projects ano
reports from them will be in before
+la time for the dividing of the cash