The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-01-15
HOLDS LAST OPEN
BUDGET HEARING
BUSINESS MEN WANT BETTER
STREET FACILITIES ON
NORTH FIFTEENTH.
WANTS EXCEED INCOME
TOTAL ASKED BY ALL DEPART
MENTs OF CITY AMOUNTS
TO MORE THAN
$4.0e0,00O.

In closing its open hearings on the
budget last night the Finance Com
mittee of the City Council heard a
number of citizens representing In
terests of more or less public import
ance, and the Administrative Board.
/ The citizens included business men
! from the BOTTOM or North Fifteenth
! Street, where number of large estab-
| lishments are located, and where in
gress and egress is bad. These gen
I tiemen asked the Finance Committee
to provide means by which Fifteenth
Street might be opened through to
/ Marshall Street, by tunneling Broad,
so that vehicles might traverse that
section with comfort and convenience.
! 1t was stated that number OF con-
( Germs would locate in the bottom
| II conveniences were furnished.
/ Clerk Duval, of Hastings Court,
Part ii, and Deputy sergeant Hastings
asked for an increase in pay: Major
| Bowles asked for an increase OF $500
/ for expenses at the Blues Armory.
Giles Jackson asked the committee to
appropriate something for the Negro
Exposition TO be held In Richmond
from July to August 4. for which
the United States government already
had appropriated $4,000: Chairman
Wilson OF the Employment Bureau
Board asked for an appropriation of
$500 for the expenses OF that bn-
reau for the year: $4o0 was asked for
the signal corps expenses. Councilman
Pitcher requested an appropriation OF
$1,000 for the employment of an ex-
pert city planning engineer to advise
/ with the Administrative Board In law
ing out the new city, after the com
pletion OF the survey, and Chairman
Whittet presented an .temixed state
ment of what the Administrative
i Board wished for the various depart
ments under it's control.
| Wants Exceed Revenue.
The total amount wanted by the
various departments sums up $1,000
! l3.0s. Auditor Crenshaw's estimate
/ OF the revenue for the year places
the figure at s3.s04.7s5.ss There liz.
! therefore, request OF s2s56a71s
more than the estimated income for
the year.
In order to meet the wants eauita bly,
the Finance Committee will curtaii
here and there, and cut where 1t may
| be felt the least
The Administrative Board wants
about 100000 for its departments,
with the engineers department as the
t s.rgest- bidder, asking for tseo.ssa.
The others ask for the following:
Gas works, $3.50. 600: water works,
sao0, 600: street cleaning. $4,000;
/ dopni &fesUVus pdTkE,
| $4,000. Fairgrounds, $4,000: ceme-
ter4es. $4,000 charities and correc-
tons, $50, coo; Virginia Hospital, s70.-
600: electric plant, $4,000
! Other departments. already report
ed ask for the following: School board,
81. 1908, <6sss, fire board. s3s5,4l5ss:
| police board. ss2e.1s5So health
board, sss,11o.
Miscellaneous wants are lite mixed as
70. ows: Employment bureau, $500:
| Sheltering Arms Hospital. $2.5oo:
| Visiting Nurses, 1880: Virginia
! Mechanics Institute. sfI,500; with
aggregate to about $4,000. making
the grand total $4,000. 4i3.os.
Claims for Bureau.
| In presenting the claim of the en-
pioyment bureau board Chairman
vided by the Administrative Board in
the basement OF the City Hall was
entirely unsuited. because of it's In
accessibility an well as the fact mat
the people who hang around the
Police Court room might prove OBJ
jectionable to those who may have
business with the bureau manage
ment The Chamber OF Commerce had
offered the board suitable quarters In
inc building at Sixth and Main Streets.
at a reasonable rent. and the cost of
| fitting up the room. with SUFFICIENT
sum for incidentals, such H postage.
etc, would amount to probably~e2 600.
1 In its final consideration OF the
wants Of the departments the board
will, undoubtedly, cut down the sums
asked for in many instances. and
salary increases will probably be at a
minimum.
The committee will hold several
executive sessions before formulating
its report for council. and IT In likely
that special session OF both branches
Of council win be held the latter part
OF this month to act upon tho budget.
20 that by February the ordinance
appropriation may be a law.