Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-08
Commissioners Decide to
Keep Within Limit Recon-
rnended BY Council.
ESTIMATES FROM EVERY
DEPARTMENT. TO BE HIT
$4,000, 900 Slash in School Funds
Among Proposals Streets Also
Must Bear Their shara.

The Commissioners decided today
to keep the District budget for the
next fiscal year within a limit of $4o.-
000. 000-$8. .000. 900 less than recon-
mended by the department heads.
The Citizens Advisory Council has
recommended tentative budget
slightly in excess Of $3s.Oo0.ooO
Already a number of items re-
Quested by the department heads have
been eliminated, but the Commission.
ers indicated that considerably more
trimming viii be necessary to bring
the estimates down to the $4,000. 900
limit.
The principal reduction was made
today in the estimates Of the Board
of Education, following conference
with Acting Superintendent Of
Schools Robert i. Haycock and mem.
Ebers OF the board The boards origf-
aISbudget recommended an appropri-
alton slightly above $4,000, 900. The
Commissioners ordered that this figure
be cut at least to $13,50o,0 900.
School Oficials to Choose.
The items to be eliminated from
the school estimates viii be left en-
tirely to the school board, the Com
missioners feeling that its members
are better qualified to differentiate be-
tween the most urgent and the de-
sirable needs. The net increase asked
for 1928 by the school board over the
appropriation for 1927 Is $5,099, ,815.
The principal items making up this
increase include salaries and new posi-.
tions in the supervisory and adminiB-
tratfye Offices, additional teachers, an
increase for the teachers retirement
fund, an increase In salaries OF
janitors, engineers and firemen, an
increase for Improvement and repair
of school buildings and grounds, an
increase for the purchase Of sites and
Fairgrounds and the construction of
buildings under the five-year building
program. for the equipment Of the
new MnKiniey Teehnica High School
and for the neritcement and Eepair of
furniture and equipment.
Every Department M.
The Highway. Police. Fire and Sani-
tary Departments and the Board OF
Public Welfare also have suffered re-
ductiOng In their estimates. Every de-
partment Of the municipal govern
ment, 1t was said. win be affected be
fore the pruning process Is completed.
The Commissioners plan to finish
the dgetrparing work in time to
have the tentative estimates at the
Bureau OF the Budget BY July Is.
The advisory council completed its
study Of the estimates last night
Council Suggests Cuts.
The largest cuts made by the coun-
ell in arriving at budget Of $4,000.
coo less than originally recommended
-or &38, Doc, 600 affected chiefly the
schools, proposed street and road inn
provements, sewers, refuse disposal.
the Health Department, Board OF Pub
lie Welfare. public buildings and public
parks and the National Capital Park
and Planning Commission. The school
estimates were slashed form $16,006,-
1856 to SO, ,000. 900: those for street and
road improvements and repairs from
81, ,276,950 to $4,000. 300: sewers from
$2,942. 900 to $4,000. 900; refuse dis
posal from sl.s45.o2e to sl.5o0, 900:
Health Department from 81 LOIS. .419 to
$3.50 900: Board OF Public Welfare
from from $4.511.5S5 to $500, 900:
superintendent Of public buildings and
public parks from $1.456,236 to <Sl5.-
600, and the National Capital Park
and Planning Commission from 81. .057,-
1O6 to $6O0,O0
Because Of the delay in submit
ting the department estimates to
the council, its original plan to con-
slider them item by item was aban-
doned. The council. however. expects
to take up the estimates again item
set or recommendation for the Com
missioners TO consider when finally
reporting TO the Bureau Of the Bud
get in September.
When consideration Of the esti-
mates was begun yesterday afternoon