Evening star., 1927-02-23
committee 0. KS
PLAN TO CONTINUE
GIBSON'S INQUIRY

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requiring payment each year before
license tags are issued.
Second, suggestions for clarifying
the instructions to taxpayers for re-
porting stocks bought on margin.
Third, suggestions for improving the
method of taxation relative to per-
sonal property.
Mr.. Gibson also reported plans for
improving the method Of notifying
property owners of the sale of real
estate for delinquent taxes.
Through cooperation with the ap-
propriations committee, publication of
the tax sales book has been stopped.
Less than 35 copies were sold and
more than 400 copies are to be sold as
waste paper.
Testimony shows that the District
has claims against various public
service corporations for back taxes
amounting to approximately $1,13o,-
o00," said Mr.. Gibson.
Some Due IL Years.
"A portion of this amount has been
on the collectors books since 1910 and
many of the items have been in liti-
cation for years.
ton of these claims by the Office Of
<the District corporation counsel. To
accomplish this end legislation has
been included in the District appropri-
alton bill providing additional funds
for improving and enlarging the per
sonnel Of the legal staff of that office. :"
The Gibson report discusses at
length the manufacture of license
tags at the District Refornatory. for
which provision has been made in
the District appropriation bill, and
recommended legislation TO increase
the production of the brick plant at
the District Workhouse from approx
;mately 100000 to 100000 bricks
per year.
This increase in production will
enable the District to obtain sufficient
bricks for its building needs for the
next fiscal year without being COM
PEELED to pay the usual market price
Of SIS per 900. The net cost of
manufacturing brick at the work
house is about Sc per 1000.
Tho Gibson report also discussed
at length the purchase Of supplies by
the District based on study by the
Bureau of Efficiency. which showed
that out Of $50 articles listed in the
District schedule and the schedule of
the general supply committee the
total price Of those listed in the gen.
eral supply committee schedule was
Sl1,5O0 lower than the price Of identi-
cal items in the District schedule.
Reorganization i'm Progress.
The members Of the subcommittee
are unanimously in favor of requiring
the District government to merge its
supply needs az far as possible with
those Of the Federal Government and
10 buy from the Federal schedule,
Mr. Gibson said.
In discussing the offices of recorder
If deeds and register OF wills, MIR
Gibson emphasized that the former
had been up to 16 months in arrenrs
on it's work, but that the study made
lby the Bureau of Efficiency and co.
operation of the Gibson subcommittee
shows that by reorganization already
N progress, with the introduction OF
Ohotostat copying. very considerable
savings will result, besides making
the work current
The Gibson report also covered ir
detail the District courts, condemna
tion juries. fictitious real estate trans
actions and the program for Public
Library expansion and DEVELOPMENT
He said that the subcommittee has
in progress Investigations relating Il
the following activities: Management
and operation of the public school sys
lem: the housing situation particu
iarly as relates to the availability OF
reasonably rented quarters for Gov
crnment employees; the organizatio,
and methods of the office OF the Di
rector OF Traffic: the organization an,
methods of the license; the agencie.
under the Board of Public Welfare
the methods of the refuse division IL
reclaiming salable refuse; the methot
of numbering and issuing auto licens.
Tags and certain matters disclosed /,
the report of the Controller General
On the investigation Of St. Elizabetht
Hospital.
In the course of the Gibson repor
enphasis was placed on all effort b,