Evening star., 1934-09-05
IS MILLION MORE
SOUGHT FOR 1886
|ND.c. ESTIMATES
$50, ,329,224 Appropriations
Asked by Heads Of City
Departments.
SCHOOL AND WELFARE
REQUESTS REVEALED
Hearings to Begin September II.
Postponement Made on Dom
ovan's Proposal.

District department heads Tor the 1886
fiscal year, the Commissioners revealed
today.
Appropriations requested total $50,-
329, ,224.84, as compared with the cur
rent appropriation of $35,411, ,177.94,
or an increase of $14,918, ,046.90.
The Commissioners also made pub
lie details of the requests of the pub
lie school system and the Board Of
Public Welfare, both of these depart
ments asking considerable increases
over current appropriations. Details
of the estimates of other department
heads will be made public later in the
week.
Hearings Begin September IL.
Public hearings on the estimates
will begin September II. It had been
originally planned to open the public
discussion September 10, but post
ponement was announced on recon-
nnendation OF Maj. Daniel j. Donovan,
budget officer, in order to give the
public a better opportunity to study
the requests in advance. This will be
the first time the Commissioners will
hold formal public hearings on the
budget requests of department aeads.
Schools and welfare represented
the largest requested increase in ap-
propriations, as regards total figures
The Board of Public Welfare pro-
poses expenditure during the 1885
fiscal year of $12,923,962, this repre-
senting an increase of $5,309, 1855 over
the appropriation for the current
year. The appropriations requested
for the various welfare and penal in
stitutions include an item OF s5,00O.O00
for emergency relief operations. as
compared with 100000 contained
In the current act. The District now
is extending relief at rate greater
than $5,00O,0OO a year and the Dis
trict appropriation of 100000 now
is being largely increased by grants
from the Federal Emergency Relief
Administration.
New Jail Proposed.
Included in the estimates submit-
ted by the Board of Public Welfare
is O proposal for the construction at
some later date of new District Jail
Building at Blue Plains. The esti-
mates carry q proposed appropriation
of $4,000 for drafting plans and
specifications for the jail building and
for construction of a new residence
for the Jail superintendent. AS justi-
fication for this proposal, welfare Of
ficials cite the congestion of the pres
ent District Jail at the end of East
Capitol street.
Completion of the walled group" of
f,.S ak pafa otoy-x
at Lorton, Va, also is proposed in the
welfare estimates. For this work the
welfare authorities request an appro-
priation of S500,000.
Included in the requests are items
for the employment of 81 additional
guards, l9 supervisors of mechanical
work, an additional medical officer, an
assistant dentist, an assistant pharma-
cist, a head nurse and two additional
nurses.
Score of Projects Listed.
The school administration asks for
funds for nearly score OF construc-
ton projects. This is designed to
take up to some degree the halting of
expansion of the school system during
the years of the depression.
In all, the school officials seek $14,-
1891 for operation of the present
school system, additional buildings
and grounds and purchase of sites for
new buildings. The total appropriated
in the current act amounts to $10,-
490,92
School Board plans for later con-
struction of a new senior high school
in Manor Park and another new senior
high school in northeast Washington,
and construction of two senior high
wings on the Anacostia Junior High
School are outlined in the estimates.
Funds are asked for drafting plans for
these items. Contract has just been
let for the construction of the Ana
costa Junior High School
School officials ask $11 1923 for
operation of the school system next
year, this being an increase of ST.
986, ,484 over the current year; $2,4 ,469,-
500 for buildings and grounds next
year, an increase of $1,285 900 over
this year, and $5l5,50O for purchase
of land, an increase of 1855, 500 over
the appropriation for the current year
Enlargement Projects.
The school authorities request
funds for the following enlargements
of the school plant:
Completion of the second floor of
the Hardy School, $4,000; compile
ton of the second floor of the Shep-
herd School, $4,000; construction of
o combination assembly hall and
gymnasium for the Whittier School,
100000; an eight-room addition and
~, fa,
dell School, $155, 900; four class rooms
and development of unfinished space
for other class rooms at the Bunker
Hill School, Sis 900; construction of
an elementary school on BladenSburg
road near Mount Hamilton, Sis 900;
an eight-room addition and assem-
bly-gymnasium for the Ketcham
School, $155 900; an aSsembly-gym-
naSium for the Monroe School, $67,-
600; an eight-room addition and as
sembly y-gymnasium for the Grimke
School. $40, 900; an eight-room build
ing and gymnasium for the j. F.
Cook School, $155, 900.
Assembly for the Gid
dings School, SAC, 900; construction of
the Dennison Vocational School,
$3.50 900; construction of an addition
to the Margaret Murray Washington
Vocational School, $7.500: a l0-room
addition and gymnasium for the
Eliot Junior High School, $l90, 900; a
1o-room addition and gymnasium for
the Paul Junior High School, $780,
600; improvement Of stage and corri-
dors OF the Shaw Junior High School,
$4,000; 12-room addition for the
Randall Junior High School, $145,-
900; two senior high school wings
Tor the Anacostia Junior High School,
$4,000; for drafting of plans and