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D. 6. Budget
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has not begun on these schools,
initial appropriations have been
made in previous years.
An increase of $4,000 is asked fol
the Kimball School addition at Min
nesota avenue and Ely place Sc.
Bids on the project were rejected
last year as far above the allotted
sum. Three second-foor classrooms
are to be added to the Bunker Hill
Elementary School at Fourteenth
street and Michigan avenue NE. and
the one school site item approved
would provide for River terrace COM
munity NE.
Many of the new water mains
to be installed will service the south
east-northeast section and repairs
are planned to the Anacostia pump
ing station.
To the poor man who Is dependent
on public health and welfare facili-
ties little is provided in the new
budget over what is now being done
One project-the housekeeping as
sistance-now provided by the
Health Department to keep the chill
dren of hospitalized INDECENT parents
from becoming welfare wards, is
eliminated altogether Nothing is
asker or allotted for Child Day Care
Centers.
A small increase in the relief ap-
preparation will provide increased
grants to meet the high cost of liv-
ing of existing cases but allows moth
ing for new cases. Only one new
institutions replacement at Laurel
Md, for the present Industrial
Home School on Wisconsin avenue
is approved in the welfare estimates
and the sole Health Department
Capital improvement item is a
dormitory for doctors and their
families at isolated Glenn Dale Tu-
berculosis Sanatorium in nearby
Maryland.
Cut Approved by President.
To the city department heads the
Presidents budget brought little
joy. Last September, under the
influence of Engineer Commissioner
Gordon r. Young's $228, ,000, 900 six
year city development program, they
submitted requests for money ex-
ceeding $136, ,O0O,O 900. They wanted
more than LOO new jobs and $51-
OO0, 1000 worth Of new construction
The Board of Trade cried fan
tastic." The Commissioners cut this
to 672 new positions and $18,926, 400
for new buildings. The President
approved the slash.
Only the Water Department got
exactly what it asked for. The
Highway Department and Police De-
partment received nearly everything.
Public health, welfare, libraries and
schools absorbed the bulk of the
$4O,00O,00O cut made by the city
heads. In nearly every instance it
wiped out their building programs.
The 672 new jobs allowed, how
ever, will mean Ill more uniformed
policemen, ia new school employees,
including Sc teachers; 227 in the
Health Department-mostly at Gal
linger Hospital-and so for the
library system. The remainder are
scattered throughout the other de-
partments in small groups.
TO the veteran, the new budget
will provide about the same service
he has been getting at the Veterans
Service Center. The housing Sec
ton of the center will be increased
by eight new jobs, however.
1t Will Cost More.
To the average man, whether he
lives in the District or nearby COM
munities, if he earns his living in
the District or spends much time
in it, the new budget will cost him
more money.
The tax program required to bal
ance the estimates is the entire tax
program recommended last July by
the Commissioners Special Tax
Committee. No increase in the So
0O0, 1000 Federal payment of this year
is provided.
This means-if the program goes
through just as it is-tfat all resi-
dents of the city will have to pay
income tax whether they maintain
legal domicile elsewhere or not. ALI
nonresidents who earn their living
here will have to pay income tax,
but receive a credit for the income
tax paid in the State of their resi-
dence. The entire community
permanent and transient-will pay
sales tax, and higher prices for
cigarettes, liquor and amusements
representing taxes on those items
The gas, electricity and telephone
bills will reflect a 2 per cent tax
monthly. Gasoline will cost District
motorists / cent more per gallon, but
the increase will place the levy even
with that of Maryland while still 2
cents below that of Virginia.
/ Breakdown in Brief.
In brief, the Presidents budget
breaks down as follows:
General fund-Recommended ap.
preparations total $77, ,226 200 against
expected revenues of $65, ,926 200. The
appropriation is roughly 6 pei
cent increase over what will be ap.
propriated from the fund before the
current year is over To make 1lr
the $11, 100000 deficit the Comnlis.
sioners propose 7-point program te
broaden the tax base on individual
incomes, increase the levies on al.
coholic beverages and provide fol
new taxes on sales, cigarettes ane
amusements; public utilities bills
and on unincorporated business in.
come. These taxes are due to pro.
vide $17,750,000 when fully effective
but officials look for only $11 800 ,00l
in the first year.
Highwayafund-Ee an.