Evening star., 1925-02-17
Immediate Employment of
Surplus Funds on Dozen
Projects Urged.
ST, ,O0O,O 900 FOR START
ON TECH HIGH SOUGHT
Sixteen-Room Building in Bright.
wood, Eight. Room Addition to
Park View Also Proposed.

A dozen important school items
were transmitted to Congress today
by the Bureau of the Budget. calling
for the immediate expenditure of
s2.S31.5oo out of the Districts sur
plus fund.
The items follow:
To begin construction of new
building for the Mckinley Technical
High School at Second and T streets
northeast $1.oo0.0 900, with authority
to enter into contracts to the extent
Of s2.250,0
For an eight-room building, includ-
ing gymnasium and assembly hall on
ground on Calvert street owned by
the District. sl75,ooo.
For combined assembly hall and
gymnasium in the Macfarland Junior
High School, 100000.
For purchase of land adjoining the
Garnet Patterson School. to be used
for a new building. $4,000.
For an eight-room addition to the
Bell School. including gymnasium
ana assembly hall and the necessary
remodeling Of the old building. and
for the purchase of adjoining land
$215,000
E7HO0O for Brixhtwood.
For the erection OF lS-room build.
ing. including assembly hall and GYM
nasium. to replace the Brightwood
School. $275.0o0.
For construction of an s-room ad-
dition to the Park View School, in.
cluding remodeling of the presen,
building and the purchase of land
s154. 900.
For construction on land owned
by the District of Columbia of ar
eight-room addition to the Cardozs
School. including gymnasium and as.
sembly hall. for use as the Randall
Junior High School. $225,0o0.
For connecting the new addition
to the Armstrong Technical High
School with the present building ant
for repairs to the present building
5000
For. necessary remodeling of the
old Western High School. $47.5o0.
Would Replace Two.
For purchase OF a site on which
to locate a new school building In
the yfeirity of the Adams School. to
replace the Force and Adams Schools
$16o, 900.
For the purchase of land In the
vicinity. Of the o Street Vocational
School for an additional building,
$4,000.
For the purchase of a site on which
to locate a new Junior high school
building in Georgetown, 100000.
These items are included I'm lis,
that was submitted to the Budget
Bureau by the District Commissioner
within a few days after passage by
Congress OF the act recognizing the
existing of a surplus of District tax
money amounting to $4.43S.15492.
Hnlf of Fund.
The surplus law made possible the
$S19. 900 in the Treasury, provided for
claim to 1t. The granting of this ad-
ditional amount would make the total
of the surplus substantially more
than $5-000.00O.
The items sent forward by the Budget
Bureau today, therefore. call for the
appropriation at this time Of abou,
half of the surplus fund. In trans
mitting these important school pro.
jects to the Budget Bureau, the com.
missioners felt IT would be wise tC
have Congress appropriate some OF
the surplus money before 1t adjourn
ed and leave the balance to be re-
leased in December. This will en-
able the municipal. architects office
and other District agencies to dis
tribute a large amount of work more
evenly over the next fscal year.
Maj. Daniel Donovan. District auditor
testified in favor Of the school items be-
fore a hearing conducted by the Budget
Bureau last week.