Evening star., 1934-01-04
s. MILLION BUDGET
SET FOR CAPITAL
Five'Per Cent Pay Relief Pro.
vided, but All Expenses Are
Cut to the Bone.
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s11 900 addition to the colored women's
ward at the Home for the Aged and
Infirm at Blue Plains
The budget allows absolutely nothing
for building in the Municipal Center
ton Of Congress, has already invested
nearly 100000 The pleas Of school .
authorities and civic organizations for
funds for the proposed new junior
| high school in Anacostia and an ad-
dition to the Alice Deal Junior High
School likewise were ignored.
Aside from the addition TO the
Browne Junior High School and the
$1,000 project at the Home for the
Aged and Inflrm, the only major con-
struction authorized is for completion
were authorized in the %@ Current %@ nscai
year. These include:
Completion Of the Woodrow Wilson
Senior High School in the Fort Reno
subdivision.
Completion Of the contagious disease
ward building at Galllnger Municipal
Hospital.
Completion Of the new Calvert Street
Bridge across Rock Creek.
Saving TN Water Rents.
The estimates, however, are designed
to save water rent payers about $eso.000
in the coming fiscal year. In place Of
the legislative provision in the appro-
priation act for 1884. providing for Q
10 per cent reduction In water bills
paid within IS days. the Budget Bureau
has substituted recommendation for
a rs per cent cut in water rates. and
an increase to 10000 cubic feet the
present metered allowance $500 cubic
feet.
Although the s1,300,o00 carried in
the current appropriation act for emer-
gency unemployment relief was more
than half exhausted in all 6t the first
three months Of the 1884 fiscal year,
the Budget Bureau recommends that
same amount for the entire 1895 fiscal
year.
One of the major items provides
S531 31,211.94 as the Districts final pay
ment to the United States for funds
advanced under the Capper- -Cramton
act for the purchase of park and play
ground lands within the District. Pre-
vious reimbursements, totaling s3,o0o,-
600, were made at the rate Of $1,000 900
q year.
Increases In Pay Rolls.
Except in few individual items, the
Budget Bureau did not allow any in
creases over the appropriation for the
present year. The increase over the
current appropriation of s2,747,67994
is reflected chiefly in the pay rolls, due
to the provision for restoration of s
per cent Of the IS per cent reduction.
The Playground Department was
among the fortunate divisions Of the
municipal government. An increase Of
$4,000 is provided for the repair and
, improvement Of its equipment.
The Police Department estimates In
clude ar increase Of $4,000 for salaries
Of the Al street railway crossing ON
GERS, who we're paid by the street car
companies until the merger. The Fire
to- provide fer three hos.
wagons and pumping engine.
Cut For Sewer Department.
A decrease was suffered by the Sewer
Department, and the City Refuse De-
partment will be compelled to operate
in the coming year on the same amount
appropriated for the current fiscal
year. The Highway Department will
find itself with 100000 less to spend
: on improvements.
ever, Is allowed $75 900 to build a new
water supply system for the District
: Workhouse and Reformatory, and the
r Water Department, despite an inevi-
3 table surplus in its revenues, Is held
! down to few improvements and ex.
J: tensions In its service. Outstanding
I among these are a 20-inch main IN
I Nichols avenue southeast from First
r street to Blue Plains, a 3c-inch main In
Pennsylvania avenue southeast to Eight
r eenth street and Minnesota avenue,
Z | 1S-inrh r1Qin in PCrk Croot N1,frrh
4 road from UpShur street to Harwood
e road and 20-inch main from Thirty
} third place and Woodley road to Con-
n necticut avenue and Macomb street.
:, Maj. Daniel J. Donovan. auditor and
n budget officer, in revision Of his Oc-
tober financial report to the Commis-
d sioners, calculates that the rock-bottom
r budget sent to Congress, will compel
n the District to build its surplus revenues
at the close Of the 1885 fiscal year UP
to a staggering sum Of $5,403 900. This
surplus would be reduced s2,S00. 900,
however, by full restoration Of he -
per cent pay cut.
/ Estimates SwphuseA
IN the general revenues alons, MAJ.
Donovan estimates the surplus will
amount to s3.e5o,O00. Added to this
;. will be surplus gasoline tax fund Of
! 1888, 900, and surplus OF water reve-
: nues amounting to 100000. The
u water fund surplus, he pointed out,
y would amount to Sl,530,000 at the close
II OF the next fiscal year, had not the
Budget Bureau recommended reduc-
s tion in water rates, coupled with an in
Q crease in the metered rate consumption.
It Maj. Donovan's figures show the Dis
trict will go into the new fiscal year
u with a surplus in the general fund OF
5, $3,115 900. which will be increased to
5, S3,950,000 as a result Of the Budget
t Bureaus reductions In the estimates
e of the Commissioners.
As the estimates went to the Budget
: Bureau. the general fund charges total
It $29,584,1l6. The charges against the
r gasoline tax revenues amount to
d S22e6, $50, and against the water reve-
r nues, 1911 Sat. The trust and special
funds amount to S2,430,0 900.
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