Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-23
SCHOOL FUNDS BILL
/ IN TWO SECTIONS
One Seeks s647,500 From
naxes-0ther DepIetes DC.
b Accumulated Surplus.

! The school building and ground,
i. program for the next fiscal year
which Is now under consideration By
the District subcommittee Of thu
House appropriations committee. II
found in two separate funds. One o,
3647,5 comes out of the regular
revenues from taxes, and the other
amounting to S2,025,O00, depletes thu
accumulated surplus" fund.
The individual items under the
smaller fund, as they have been writ
ten into the bill on the recommends
ton of the Budget Bureau, are as fol
, lows:
For the completion Of the Francis
Junior High School. $325.000. with
authorization to make contracts fol
completion Of the building at a cost
hot to exceed 100000.
For preliminary study on plans ano
specifications for the new schoo
building for the Business High School
$1,000.
For BrightwOod School.
For purchase of a site on which to
locate new junior high school build
ing in Brightwood or vicinity, 100000
For purchase of a site on which to
locate a new 16-room school building
in the vicinity of Fourteenth and
Ogden streets. 500 900.
For purchase of a site on which &c
locate a new 16-room school building
In the vicinity Of sixteenth and WEB
ster streets. 100000.
For purchase of land in the vicinity
of the Morgan School for playground
purposes. s17;500.
Last year appropriations aggregat
ing 50 ,63l 500 for new school buildings
were made and charged against the
~. tod of a
$4,000. 900 found to the credit of the
District in the Federal Treasury. This
year the bill carries similar appropria
lions totaling S2,025 900, to come out
of the accumulated surplus, as fol
lows:
For continuing construction of the
new building for the Mckinley
Technical High School, 100000 0imit
of cost, $3.50, 900; previously appro
priated, 81 900 ,00O).
For construction of an eight room
addition, including combined gym.
nasium and assembly hall, to the
Burroughs School, S245,000.
For the construction Of q third story
addition of four rooms to the Amidon
School, $50 900
24-ROom School Building.
For erection of a 24room building
IIdTneI-fdIIeT
son School in accordance with the
plans of the Mcfarland JUNIOR High
School, 100000. and the Commission
ers are hereby authorized to enter
into contract or contracts for such
building at cost not to exceed
100000 previously appropriated for
purchase of land. s55 5000.
For construction CT a four-room ad
d1uon to the Smothers School. includ
Ing the necessary remodeling of the
present building, $500
For purchase of q site on which tc
locate new eight-room school build
ing in Potomac Heights or vicinity tc
replace the one-room building on Con
duff road, $4,000.
For purchase of site on which tc
locate a new 16.room school building
In the vicinity Of Alaska avenue and
Holly street. $4,000.
For purchase Of land in the vicinit,
of the Wheatley School for playground
purposes, $4,000.
For erection of a junior high schoo
building on the site purchased ir
Georgetown in accordance with the
plans of the Macfarland Junior High
School, 100000 and the Commission
eTs are authorized to enter into con
tract or contracts for such building
1T 81 cost not to exceed 100000
For construction Fof an addition to
the Langley Junior High School, in
Guiding an assembly hall and gym
nasiunl, $500, 900.
For construction of an addition to
the Hine Junior High School. 500. 900
For purchase Of land in the vicinity
Of the Dunbar High School, $3.50 900.
For construction of a combined gym.
nasium and assembly hall at the Pet
worth School, in accordance with the
original plans, $4,000.
For construction of d combined gym
naSium and assembly hall at the West