Evening star., 1932-08-13
DISTRICT BUDGET
FIGURES SLASHED
Estimates for 1884 Fiscal
Period Nearly $4,000, 900
Less Than at Present.
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trees. Sewer Department and City
Refuse Department.
Requests for appropriations in 1894
for highway construction and malpte-
nance, street trees and bridges total
S4,198,390 slight increase over the
s3,912,3sO appropriated for these pur-
poses during the current fiscal year.
New Bridges Planned.
OF the requests for new appropria-
tions, perhaps the mcst important are
those for building a new bridge to re-
place the Calvert Street Bridge, another
for a new bridge to replace the present
P Street Bridge over Rock Greek, an
appropriation for completion OF the
Benning Bridge over the Eastern Branch
and one fer widening and paving Con-
stitution avenue at cost to the District
of S31 900.
Plans for the Calvert Street Bridge
will be completed this year under an
appropriation now available. The 1885,
estimates call for an appropriation ol
S625 900 to start construction, with an
authorization to the Commissioners tc
enter into contract for the entire
pIOJSCL I1OL W eACCSu S1,1OOIOOO-
Plans have already been completed
for the P street Bridge, and these are
to be executed, according to another re.
quest, at a cost not to exceed $3.50, 900
Salaries Remain Same.
The Benning Bridge will be started
during the present fiscal year, and the
estimates carry an additional $500, ,00(
for the completion of this bridge.
The request for salaries is $217000
the same as the current appropriation
for street and road improvement out oi
gasoline tax money, $1,908, 900, as com.
pared with current appropriation oi
81 1863, TOO; for condemnation, $4,000, a:
compared with $4,000; for repairs
$685., 900, a startling drop from the cur.
lent appropriation of s957,500.
The Constitution avenue wideninS
from Second street to Pennsylvania ave-
nue. will be executed at total cost OF
S138, 900, but of this only $8l 900 will
come from District funds and the bal
ance from the Federal Treasury.
For street trees the appropriation re-
quested for 1884 Is identical with that
available during the current year-s28,
48O for salaries and S112,500 for plant
ing new trees and taking care Of the
$4,000 trees now lining the city streets
Supt. Clifford Lanham, in his estimates
said this would not be enough to take
care of his needs, and that many vacant
tree spaces would have to continue va
cant under this appropriation.
Sewer Estimates Increased.
In the Sewer Department estimates
there is a small increase from the
s1,572, $50 appropriated this year to the
Sl,639,620 asked for in 1884. OF the
increase $4,000 is attributable to re-
quest for money for a mosquito con-
troll survey and $25, 900 for a survey Of
the sewage problems in the PineJ
Branch valley. This request was alsc
made last year. but no appropriation
was forthcoming.
The Street Cleaning Departments es.
Inmates of s1.839,610 are also slightly
up in comparison with the appropria,
ton this year of 81 $685. $50, largely be-
cause of the anticipated cost OF operat'
ing two trash incinerators now being
built which will be put into service TO-
wards the end of the present calendar
year.