Evening star., 1935-01-07
CAPITAL OUTLAY
is CUT SEVERELY
Relief and Lump Sum Boost
Sacrificed, to Slash Re.
quest S2,204,534.
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Commission an increase OF $13,445 for
additional personnel SO that its staff,
crippled by the drastic reduction in
appropriations for the current year,
can be restrengthened.
Viaducts to Be Financed.
1t sets aside s26O,oOo for the con-
struction of the Franklin Street Via
duct over the Baltimore g. Ohio Rail-
road tracks, 100000 for acquisition
Of land necessary for the erection of
a viaduct over the dangerous Michl-
gan avenue grade crossing, and $780,
600 for reconstruction of the Benning
Road Viaduct over the Baltimore &
Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroad
freight lines on Benning road. The
completion of these projects will leave
only two grade crossings to eliminate,
one at Quarles street and the other
at Bates road.
The bridge program also includes
an item Of $4,000 for surveys and
an engineering investigation looking
toward replacement of the old Penn
sylvania Avenue Bridge over the
Anacostia River.
1t would make available to the
Fire Department S77,24l of the unex-
pended balance of appropriations in
1927 and 1928 for the erection of a
fire house in the vicinity of Sixteenth
street and Plney Branch road, which
was never built because of the objec-
ton of residents in the neighborhood.
This money is earmarked for new
nicfr Int- nd Ia mr.
at Fourteenth street and Rhode Island
avenue northeast.
1t also provides for the reappro-
priation Of the unexpended balance of
S330000 appropriation in 1881 for
continuing the reclamation and de-
Velopment Of AnacoStia Park.
Water Rate Slash Continued.
In addition, the budget recon-
mendS the continuation of the Is per
cent reduction in water rates put into
effect this year, along with an in
crease in the metered allowance from
$500 to 10000 cubic feet. Despite
this cut estimated to save water rent
payers 100000 a year, the Water
Department has piled up a surplus
which is expected to reach S650,000
at the close of the 1886 fiscal year on
the lower rates.
Another major improvement would
be the sought walled inclosure
around The District Reformatory at
Lorton, Va. The budget reserves
$l90,000 for this purpose and pro-
vides salaries for eight additional
guards.
The new school facilities which the
budget would authorize follow:
An eight-room building on the site
of the John F. Cook School, $4,000.
A 10-class-room and gymnasium ad-
dition to the Eliot Junior High School,
$175,000
An eight-room addition to the Ran
dali Junior High School, $4,000.
Beginning construction of an ad-
dition to the Anacostia Junior to be
used for senior high pupils. $250,0O0,
with limit of cost placed at $3.50, 900.
Completion Of construction and i'm
provement of the grounds of the
Woodrow Wilson Senior High School,
$4,000.
Improvements at Armstrong High
School, $4,000.
Aside from these improvements, all
OF which will be financed out of the
general revenues of the District, the
budget sets up a program of extern
tion for the Water Department. using
the funds which it collects from water
rent payers.
Two new 36-inch mains are pro-
posed in this program, one from
Fourth and E streets southwest to
Canal and E streets, costing $46,200,
and the other from Eleventh and
Kenyon streets to Seventeenth and
Taylor streets, estimated to cost
s12o.25o.
The Water Department also would
be authorized to spend $123,000 for a
new 5,000,000-gallon pumping unit
at the Bryant Street Station, and
$4,000 for smaller 1000 ,OOO- gallon
unit at the Anacostia Station.
One Of the things the budget fails
to do Is to provide for full restoration
OF the curtailed street-lighting fund,
which means that the District is
faced with another year of econo-
mlzed illumination with dimly lighted
streets. At the same time, however,
the budget carries an increase of
$4,000 for the extension and i'm
provement of the street lighting sys-
TEN in the outlying sections.
Added Police Plan Fails.
The budget likewise ignored the
request Of Police Supt. Ernest w.
Brown for 35 additional policemen to
bring his force up to normal strength
in an effort to cope with the present
gambling situation.
The Highway Department is al
located 81 2,849 300 out of the gasoline
tax funds for street and road i'm
provements and repair, but despite
this expenditure, representing as it
does an increase of about 100000
over the current appropriation, it is
estimated there will be surplus of
about $283, 900 in the gas tax revenues
by the close of the 1886 fiscal year.
The Traffic Department is allowed
$4,000, the same amount as appro-
priated this year for adding to its
network of lights, signals. etc. and
the Public Library is given $50. 900. or
$4,000 more than this year for the
purchase of books, periodicals. and
newspapers. The increase. however.
is intended to equip the new George
town Branch. The Library also is al
lotted $4,000 for repairs to library
buildings.
Some of the minor budget alloca-
tions provide $1,000 for repairs and
improvements at the municipal fish
wharf and market, and $34,500 for
three new combination hose wagons
for the Fire Department.
The budget also carries q restric-
ton that has been in effect for sew
eral years preventing the Public Util-
tiles Commission from enforcing its
old order designed to force taxicabs
to be equipped with meters.
No Surplus Provided.
One Of the serious features of this
"balanced budget" not stressed in the
budget report itself, is that there will
be no surplus in the general tax fund
at the close of the 1886. fiscal year.