Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-19
Figures Forwarded Include
$2,123,212 to Buy Mu-
nicipaI Center Site.
PROPOSE CONTINUANCE
OF TAX RATE OF $1.7O
Federal Contribution of SO, 900, 900
Assumed-0ther Sources of
Revenue Detailed.

Another plea to the Budget Bureau
to allow the District financial budget
Of $48. .460, 1853 for the 1881 fiscal year
was made by the Commissioners today
in a letter transmitting the final esti-
mates to the bureau.
Although the Commissioners obeyed
the order of the Budget Bureau and
reduced the original amount requested
to 6,337 ,656. the final budget as sub
mitted, the letter revealed, contained
supplemental items totaling s2.123.312
making the figure the same as asked
for in the tentative estimates.
Municipal Center Item,
The $2,123,312 in supplemental esti-
mates represents items for the pur-
chase of additional ground for the
municipal center which were trans
ferred from the regular budget. The
Commissioners, it is known, felt that a
possible delay in acquiring funds for
completion Of the purchase of the
municipal center site, as may happen
as result CT the shift from the reg
ular to the supplemental estimates,
would not jeopardize the development
OF the center project.
When the Commissioners sent the
tentative estimates to the Budget Bu-
reau in July they urged that the S48,-
460,096 called for be approved on the
ground that the District could support
budget that size in 1881 on the exist
ing tax rate with the use of a certain
amount Of the surplus revenues to the
credit OF the District in the Federal
Treasury. In their latest appeal. how
ever. they maintain that the financial
showing of the gasoline and water rev.
enue funds warrant the approval Of a
S48, ,460, ,096 budget.
Tax Rate Statement.
Donovan explained the Commissioners
propose to continue the present tax rate
OF Sl.70 in that year, and have included
no more than 100000 as the propor-
ton to be paid by the Federal Govern
ment
Donovan's letter of transnnissal classi-
fled the total of S48, 8,460S6S as follows
General expenses and improvements
$40, $500
Gasoline tax fund. s1.soo,oo
Water service, $1.498.300.
Permanent and indefinite appropri-
atoms (ncluding trust funds, ST.
482, $50.
The estimates are portioned as to
revenue charges as follows:
Payable by the District of Columbia
S34 540,068.
Contribution by the United States
100000.
Payable .ay M from the gasoline tax fund,
Payable from the water fund. s1.4es.-
800
Payable from trust funds, 1882, 500
Total, s4s,460,86s.
Mr.. Donovan's Letter.
Mr.. Donovan stated in his letter:
In the letter of your bureau ad-
dressed to the Commissioners they were
informed that the President had allo-
Gated to the District of Columbia S46.-
337,656 as tentative maximum
amount of the budgets CT the District
for the fiscal year 1881, this total to
include $2,482 500 for permanent ano
indefinite appropriations. Pursuant to
this action the regular budget of the
District of Columbia for 1891 is fol
lhe exact amount of the allocation
namely, $46.337 ,656.
LAS this amount does not in tbe
Judgment of the Commissioners, pro-
vide for absolutely necessary require
ments for 1891. nor as large a sum as
the available revenues for the District
for that year justify, the Commission
ers nave according included in theil
oudget supplemental item of S2,l23..
2l2, which, together with the amount
carried in the regular item, will be re.
qulred to complete the purchase O
land for the municipal center.
In framing their budget total fo,
1881. the Commissioners propose t.
continue the tax rate of $1.7O in tina
year and have included no more thar
$9.000,0C0 as~the proportion to be pair
by the United States.
Estimate Of Revenues.
"The accompanying statement relat
ing to the general revenue fund of tn,
District for the fiscal years 1929 t.
1881 shows that the estimated availabl,
revenues of the District for the fisca
year 1881 dncluding a surplus of S6.
806,073.25 brought over from 1880
total $46, 1854 ,07325. The estimates sub
mitted by the Commissioners in thei
final budget for 1881 Gncluding tn,
supplemental item of $2,123,212I
chargeable to the general revenue func
of the District total S43.540.o6s. Thi'
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