Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-01-20
Administrative BOARD
PRESENTS ITS BUDGET
Asks S2.450,217.7O to- Operate De.
partments Under It's Control
for This Year.
HALF-MILLIoN FOR STREETS
Only One-Fifth OF Boards Estimate
to- BE Devoted to Roadway, Side
walks or Alley Improvement.
Would Build Big Storelrouse.

The total estimate of the needs OF
the departments under the supervision
ana direction Of the Administers
Board. as presented by Chairman Whit
tet ana Commissioner Hirschberg 10 the
! Council Finance Committee last night
in itcmizcd detail, reaches the sum of
| S2,i5o,elI.10. Comparatively few of the
| items arc new and aside from those de-
tailed in the estimate given last year
The request Tor funds with which to
continue street Improvement was urged
again: more funds, II is estimated are
needed for the Virginia Hospital. now IL
municipal institution operated Jointly by
the Medical College of Virginia and the
Administrative Board, and other items
include salaries and expenses for the
Municipal Employment Bureau, n pub
lie comfort station at Seventh and
Broad Streets. underground. and a gem
eral storciGusc, garage and machine
shop Cor municipal purposes at Fiji
;ecnth and Marshall Streets.
MAINTENANCE OF HOSPITAL
WILL COST nIG SUM
For the expenses and unpaid bills Of
Virginia Hospital where there are now
1876 patients, the Administrative Board
wants Si3,SI5, and for the salaries of
employees, including the superintendent
| and nurses, $22,776 will be needed. Mr.
IIirschbcrg included in his estimated
hulance. saying that now the Virginia
Hospital often has to depend upon the
police patrol automobiles and private
conveyances TO bring emergency cases
to the hospital for treatment. Stress
was also laid on the need of a general
storehousc, garage, machine and gen
cral supply shop ~ Fifteenth and Mar
shall Streets. the board proposing to
erect thrcc-story reinforced concrete,
fircproof building. After the initial cX-
pcnses of building and equipment. Mr..
Whittet and Mr. Hirschbcrg said that
such a municipal storehousc would
operate TO reduce many municipal cx-
penseS.
PROPOSE GENERAL REPAIR
AND STORAGE SHOP
II will be used as storehousc for all
departments under control of the boa rd,
as 4 garage for the ten municipal auto
mobiles now in use and under control
OF the board. and for all other vehicles
belonging to the city, and part of tho
building will be operated as n machine
and repair shop in which all municipal
repair work will be done by the city
instead OF by private contract. A black
smith shop Is also contemplated, so
that all tools and other equipment
owned by the city may be repaired
there. In the basement of the build
ing will he constructed Al vault in which
All NaiuaD pie municlpai papers and rec
ords may be kept. The board cstimat IS
that the cost of the proposed building
will he $4,000. which II will prorate
out OF the expenses OF the various de-
partments.
For street improvements the board
asks 100000; for bridges. $4,000. and
for opening Fifteenth Street under
meath Broad. $4,000.
The Administrative Board also rec
commended that 1t nc empowered to
purchase n farm as per the appropria-
ton in the bond issue.
l.. w. Thomas, member of the Board
of Police Commissioners, presented a
petition on behalf of the police captains
requesting that their salaries be in
creased from $1,440 n year to Sl.S0O lie
said that in twenty-five cities of the
size of Richmond police captains sala
ries ranged from $4,000 up
y petition for $4,000 for school i'm
provement in territory annexed from
Chesterfield County was presented, the
petitioners declaring that s35. 900 was
needed fer Franklin School. in, Swans
| boro alone. the building now helm.
crowded to double its capacity A re-
quest was made FOR an APPROXIMATION
for colOred schools In the West End
and Councilman G. G.. Jones pettioued
that the salaries OF city physicians be
increased.
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