Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-08
DEPARTMENT CHIEFS ARE
Hold TO MAKE ESTIMATES
Preliminary Work Is Started on An.
49, nual City Budget for
sSs..ss Next Year.
BIG BOND ISSUE PROPOSED
Sewerage, Water Mains, Gas and
Street improvements in Both Old
4 City and Annexed Territory to BE
7 Provided For in Estimates.

were issued yesterday by
R the administrative Board to all depart
ment heads in the city government di-
rcctinE them to start at once work on
estimates of their individual needs for
The year 1918 which must be filed with
tho board not later than December /.
After being tabulated. and probably re-
duced in numerous instances, these es-
Inmates will be made in general
budget for all departments under con-
( tfo1'and supervision OF the board. and
transmitted to the Council to be in
cluded In the general budget ordinance.
From the directions Of the board to
department heads, that body will re-
quest the Council this year for appro-
prfattons several times as great as in
former years. Comprehensive plans
! have been laid by the board for gen.
eral improvements in the old city and
annexed territory. which will aggregate
about $15.ooo.o00. In official quarters
however. doubt was expressed that the
board would request as large an appro-
prfation because OF the unsettled condi-
tion of the country, and because tho
price OF all materials are extremely
high.
~ The greatest single item which IS
contemplated by the board is contained
In the directions issued to City Engi-
nccr Boiling to report an itemized es-
innate OF the cost Of installing proper
sewer facilities In the old city and an
nexed territory to care for all general
needs. and for surface drainage. Cen
erAl estimates place at s12.o00.ooo the
eost."of constructing the necessary
beverage system to carry out this plan,
and several years would be required
to complete the work.
EXTENSIVE PLANS FOR
~ IMPROVEMENTS CONTEMPLATED
The board also contemplates the in
gstAllatlon OF water and gas mains, cleo
trio lights. curbing and gutterinE and
npaN paving in all parts OF Greater
Richmond, and smooth paving in GER
tain sections of the old city. The pro-
posed improvements will represent ex-
penditures many times that of past
years. The 1912 budget ordinance of
the Council carried appropriations for
the year of S4,o31.l3s, about one-fourth
OF which was for interest and Tedemp-
tions of the city debt.
~ Bids were received by the board yes
terday for the construction OF a sewer
in Clay Street, between High Point
Avenue and Sheppard Street, in what is
known as Scotts Addition, and were
referred to the City Engineer for tabu-
lntion, report and recommendation.
Mr.. Boiling was also instructed to Sc
cure bids from several contractors for
the raising and relayinE or the laying
of Eranolithic sidewalk on Rogers
Street, between Fendall and Miller Ave-
nues. He was directed to report to tho
board at once upon receipt OF the bids,
: that the work might be authorized i'm
mediately.
Local Exemption Board. No. 8. which
is now quartered in the John Marshall
High School Building, applied to the
board for permission to occupy quarters
In the Blues Armory, Sixth and Mar
shall Streets. since that organization
has been ordered to Camp Mcclellan. ut
Admission, Ala. The draft officers have
been notified that they must Vacate
their present quarters not later than
September 10. in order that the rooms
now being used may be put in proper
order for the opening of school
:. The request was referred to Captain
Clarence Wyatt. president Of the Rich
mond Blues Association. to whom the
use of the armory has been granted by
the board for tho company of volun-
teers now being raised by the organiza-
ton for home defense work in the abb
sence OF the national guardsmen.