Evening star., 1933-10-15
PROPOSED BUDGET
ASKS$@,M,S5&.15
Estimates Based on $1.N
Realty Rate, Assessment
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ended last June 80, closed with q deficit
of $62.742.57, Maj. Donovan estimated
that the current Ascal year will end
with Q showing Of q surplus of $780,
06s.l3. largely created by salary reduc-
tions This surplus becomes available
for use during the 1885 fiscal year.
Requests Trimmed.
The proposed budget Of $3s. .4s4, ,S5s.15
represent an increase Of approximately
Sl,2a4, 900 over the 1884 appropriation
total. but shows that the Commission
ers, in keeping with their decision to
formulate an economical and balanced
budget without resorting to an increase
in taxes. were forced to shave some
SIS, 100000 OF the total requested by
the District department heads. This
total was ~, ,e97, 1903. 4
Mai. ponovans statement, made to
the Commissioners but not sent to the
Budget Bureau, showed that the new
budget k based on an estimated general
fund revenue during the fiscal year 1885
Of $ala25, ,06a.43. The proposed budget
carries items payable from the general
fund amounting to $3<,376. .888.15. This
would leave as an expected surplus at
the end OF the next fiscal year OF $44S,-
l7528.
The amount of the surplus at the
end Of the present year and 1885, as
we'll as the 1885 budget total itself, Maj:
Donovan pointed out, would depend
upon how additional funds for the
care Of Washineton's destitute persons
are provided.
In this connection he stated:
"The emergency relief appropriation
for 1894 Is &. 100000. It Is believed that
about $4,000 900 600 will have to be ex-
pended for this purpoee BY the Close Of
the Ascsl year 1894. The consideration
OF revenue surplus available IN 1885
from 1884, assumes no further sppropri-
alton from District funds in 1884 for
emergency relief, but that the approxi-
the District appropriation Of 81 800, ,000
will be supplied from the Federal relief
appropriation of $500, ,0O0, 900.
IT this should not be done and the
District required to furnish the addi-
tional money, the result would be to
diminish correspondingly the revenue
surplus Of 1884, and this in turn would
affect the revenue availability for 1885,
and the total of the District budget for
that year."
The auditor showed in detail how the
1895 budget estimates were prepared
upon receipt of instructions from the
Bureau Of the Budget. This section OF
the statement follows:
Recommendations Submitted.
For the fiscal year 1895, the sev-
eral departments submitted budget rec
concentrations totaling $44,897, 1903,
made up as follows:
Senerai 1una Items $36 24s ,0s3
Water fund items ......... 2..45,4sO
Trust and special funds ....... s.50b 900
THE Bureau of the Budget indicated
as the total of the District budget for
1885, the sum Of &36,7l0,0O0. This in
cluded salaries computed on 100 per
cent basis, but does not include any pro-
vision for paying longevity increases to
school teachers. policemen and firemen.
The Budget Bureau in advising the
Commissioners Of the Districts budget
total for 1885 stated that:
Estimates are to be limited to ap-
propriations As made for 1884, adjusted
by emitting non-recurring items, and
adding only such new items as are i'm
perative, A tentative basis of such ad-
justment Is shown in the attached
statement
The statement referred to by the
Budget Bureau Is as follows:
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