Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-14
WASHINGTON AND VICINITY
THURSDAY, MARCH IA, 1885,,
Public Hearing
SET on Fairfax
|2-Mi|Iion Budget
Scheduled April "a;
Most of Fund Is
Devoted to Schools

A tentative budget of $2,619, 241, of
which s2,290,450 is devoted to school
purposes in Fairfax County, has
been set for public hearing April ~
by the Board of Supervisors.
Representing an overall increase
OF approximately 1900 600 over the
fiscal plan for the current period
ending June 80, the new budget calls
for an increase in the local levy OF
So cents, bringing the total for
school and general purposes to about
1921 for each 500 valuation of real
and personal property.
OF the school department budget,
81 ,049 900 is Get aside for new con-
struction and acquisition of schoo,
sites.
Gymnasium Planned.
Major school improvements pro-
vided are additional classrooms and
a gymnasium at the Mount Vernon
High School, cafeteria and new
workshop at the Fairfax High
School and new classrooms at the
Centerville School.
New construction is set up for
two elementary schools in Falls
Church, one for colored and one for
white. Also provided are funds for
construction and a site for an ele-
mentary institution at Wayanoke
and for a site only in the eastern
section Of the Mount Vernon dis
trict.
No provision is made for a new
site for Baileys Cross roads ele-
mentary school which structure re-
Gently was the subject of a protest
by parents of that community when
a window sash was blown out dur
ing a windstorm.
Syms Corner School.
There also is provision for DUR.
chase OF a school site at Syms Cor
ner to serve the Belle Haven-Well-
ington Villa area.
OF the total $2.61 county levy.
s2.16 is to be for school purposes
This has been divided S2.0l for OBJ
Grating costs and IS cents for the
school debt fund A total of As cents
for the county levy represents a S
cent increase due chiefly to in
creases in the welfare and police
department appropriations.
Ieachers' salaries will be mater-
ally increased during the coming
fiscal year, under the proposed plan
The minimum of $3.50 will be in
creased to 81 500 for those lacking 3
college degree, and from $3.50 to
l,6O0 for those with degrees. The
total for instruction purposes is
s751 200.
Pending signature by Gov. Tuck
OF legislation passed at the recent
General Assembly, supervisors and
schools officials were unable to saw
whether they would be able to Dor.
row the entire amount of construc-
ton projects from the State literary
fund. A bill by Delegate Edwin w.
Lynch, Fairfax, would permit local
itles to borrow 100 per cent, instead
OF IS per cent, from the fund COW
erlng the cost of new projects.
In the general budget. the welfare
department appropriations were set
at approximately $50 900. with about
s3l 900. or an increase of s8.7oO as
the county's share and the balance
being met by State and Federal
grants.
Schools Get Wine Tax.
The supervisors agreed to con-
tinue their policy of transferring all
funds received from the State for
wine taxes from the general to the
school budget.
The general budget of 1923. 1877. IL
an increase of $4,000 over the cur
rent year. The police department
received the largest boost. s18.50O
Other large increases are So, 700 for
welfare and $500 for the public
library.
Police department increases con.
templated for the period beginning
July ! are attributed largely to a
desire to continue the minimum
salary increases of from $3.50 to s165
per month"; policy inaugurated
curing the present fiscal period.
Craftsman Fund Vetoed.
The supervisors vetoed a request
Tor funds for technical craftsman
IN the County Planning Commits
sion. An increase of 1875 had been
requested for total of s9.18e, but
only an increase of $500 was
tentatively approved.
No action was taken to inpose
special levy within Sanitary Dis
trlct. No. l, which contains the
Federany constructed and owned
sewage trunk line running from
Falls Church down the Alexandra
reservoir watershed to the Potomac
River just south of Alexandria n
was agreed that sufficient time does
not remain for an equitable survey
OF property values within the dis.
trict. Indications were given. how.
ever, that a special levy will he
imposed in the future to finance
construction of lateral sewage lines
to serve those areas lying lust out
side Falls Church, Arlington and