Evening star., 1933-04-28
D. c. BILL REPORTED
FOR SENATE ACTION
Larger Lump Sum Provided.
More Urgent Needs
Considered.
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to the school building program. The
House biz lid not contain any school
building projects.
The Senate bill allows the Municipal
Center balance to be spent as follows:
For beginning the Woodrow Wilson
Senior High School, at Forty-first and
Chesapeake streets, $475,00o, with au-
thority to enter into contracts at a
cost not to exceed $1,15O0o0.
For an eight-room building on a site
already appropriated for in the vicinity
Of the Logan School, $95,000.
For an addition to the Deal Junior
High School, including 10 class rooms
and one gymnasium, $153,000.
For an addition to the Browne Junior
High School, including 10 class rooms
and gymnasium, s153,000.
Amendment Offered.
Chairman Thomas was authorized by
the committee to offer an amendment
on the floor of the Senate to give the
Commissioners general authority to
transfer funds from one subhead to an
other within departments in order to
avoid hardships and difficulties which
might arise in meeting essential re-
quirements due to the reductions below
current operating expenses.
The Senate committee granted q
$4,000 increase in the item for personal
services in the free public library sys-
TEN, making the amount $265, 900. This
puts back not quite half of the S11, ,272
which was taken from library personnel
in bringing the original estimates down
to the new limit ordered by the Budget
Bureau. The library officials also will
be able to transfer funds from one sub
head to another under the general
amendment to keep the various branches
going next year.
Other Increases.
Other increases allowed by the Sen
ate Committee follow:
For personnel services in the register
Of wills Office, $500.
Public ygrounds-Personnel serv-
ices for the Northeast playground, s2,l67;
bathing pools, S5,225.
Public school items-Teachers for
three Sight-conservation classes, SIS 5,400;
deaf, dumb and blind, $500; American
iZation work. $4,000, and furniture for
the Logan School, $4,000. This made
a total of $4,000 added to the school
figures in addition to the $876,000 made
available from the Municipal Center
balances for the building program.
For employment of nurse at the
police clinic, $3.50.
For repairs to apparatus in the Fire
Department, S2,932.
Public welfare-maintenan at the
tuberculosis Hospital, $4,000, and for
operation of the War Veterans Service
Office, $500. These, together with the
S250000 added to the emergency relief
Item. make an increase of $3.50, 100 for
public welfare purposes.
Relief Fund Increases.
The increase in the relief fund and
these other miscellaneous increases ag-
gregate S293,363. The cutting out of
S1,000,000 of District reimbursement to
the United States for park purchases
resulted in the net decrease of the
bill as reported to the Senate of $706,-
637. This made the bill as reported
$29, ,585 ,805. AS previously stated. how
ever, the surplus gasoline tax and
water funds which the Commissioners
are authorized to spend are not fig
ured in the total because they are
classified as indefinite appropriations.
In connection with the Calvert Street
Bridge project, the committee wrote in
a provisO that no part of the money for
this purpose shall be available until the
Commissioners have made restudy
and reinvestigation to determine which
particular type of bridge is most eco
nomical and serviceable and best suited
to the proposed location. 1t is also re-
quired that the Fine Arts Commission
must approve the type of bridge decided
upon. During the hearings a question
arose as to whether the bridge should
be of the masonry arch type, as called
for under a plan drawn in 1917 by
George Oakley Totten, jr., or a steel
arch as contemplated by new plans re-
Gently drawn.
Incinerator Approved.
The Senate Committee voted to per-
init the operation of the District high
temperature incinerator in the South
east section by striking out the House
ban.
In order to enable school officials
to meet conditions resulting from re-
duced appropriations for salaries the
Senate Committee added the following
proviso to the bill
Provided further, That teaching
vacancies that occur during the fiscal
year 1884 wherever found may be filled
by the assignment of teachers OF Spe-
cial subjects and teachers not now
assigned to class room instruction, and
such teachers are hereby made eligible
for such assignment without further
examination; provided further, that in
the interests of economy the Board
of Education may at its discretion
during the fiscal year 1884 appoint
qualified temporary teachers in the
public schools of the District of Co.
lumbia notwithstanding the existence
of an eligible list of applicants estab-
1ished by examinations; provided
further. that in filling all such va
cancies teachers now in the schools
shall have the preference so far as
Is practicable.
MANDATORY RETIREMENT