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lconstruction of the East Capitol
street bridge project.
Gallinger Request Cut.
8. The committee made cuts oi
considerable size in the requests
of many city divisions and services
flor additional employees and made
a particular point of this in the
Health Departments request for
IGallinger Hospital.
In discussing it's bill, the Bates
subcommittee noted that the $13S
million measure carried $3.841 ,OO0
which would not be available for
expenditure until the 1858 fiscal
year. This is in keeping with the
new appropriation plan OF not
Igranting contract authorizations
lin action on construction projects
but to appropriate the full esti-
mated cost at one time.
The committee said "the COM
mittee action will result in gross
surplus, after deducting the
amount not to be available until
the fiscal year 1858, of $4.455 1897
and a net surplus of $3,205, 1877
after deducting the reserve OF
81, $50 900 for contingencies. The
amounts recommended are within
the estimated revenues to be avail
able for each of the three separate
funds"
Capital Outlay Trimmed.
For capital outlay, the bill car
ries $32 ,898,350. This is SAL ,000
less than the city had asked.
The committee said that capital
outlay cash for the present year
amounted to a little over $19 mil
lion but that when contract au-
thorizations were added to this
lit brought the present years i'm
Eprovement program to $31.5 mil
lion, or fairly close to the program
proposed for the new year.
1 The budget request called fol
IAN outlay of nearly $2.4 millior
for new positions and other in
creases in administrative cost
lover and above those caused by
Iprice rises. The committee con.
Icluded that for the most part
these were not Immediately neces'
lsary and so cut requested extra
personnel by more than 80 PEI
cent. This alone effected a saw
ing of $2.295, 900.
Rent Control Fund Omitted.
I The bill carries no fund fol
Operation of the rent-control ad'
ministration after July l. Tht'
lis because Congress has not ye
passed legislation extending Fed
Ieral or District rent curbs. Sucl
bills are in the legislative mill.
i Schools would get an appropria'
Ition totaling $29.614,850. For op'
Grating funds, the bill calls fol
4 $22, ,101, 500.
i The committee noted that th'
budget requested Ga additiona
Iemployes and added:
while there are schools II
some areas In need Of additiona
teaching personnel, there art
Iother schools where the ratio o
teaching staff to pupils enrolled i
considerably above the standards
which have been established fol
such ratios.
Request Cut Two thirds.
/ "In total, the school enrollmen
for the coming year exceeds th'
enrollment last year by only q!
pupils. If school officials con
scientiously attempt to do 81
most of the inequities which cur
lrently exist within the school sys'
Item with regard to teaching per.
sonnel can be corrected by ad'
Ijustments within the total stat
|currently provided for. The com
Imittee, therefore, has reduced th'
request by $150.O00, which repre-
lsents approximately two-thirds o
1.-THE amount requested for nev
positions"
The bill does not carry the pro
/ posed $50, 900 for hoodlights of tn
, Eastern High Stadium. although
Congress has authorized this prof.
ect.
The committee reduced t.
$4,000 a fund for the hire of ex
, perts and consultants at rates VI
: to $50 a day. For this year, Con
! gress allowed $4,000. The Com
missioners in their 1852 bulge
cut this back to $500. TIL
House committee said there j
little need" in the schools for sucl
experts and consultants.
Recreation Funds Allowed.
, The committee allowed the flu
budget request of 100000 for tn
Recreation Department for i'm
provement of its play areas an
granted $1,425, 900 for operatin
Expenses.
But in it's rebellion against tn
requested $275,000 for the Recrea
ton Board to take over the con
tract of Mr. Leoff1er for golf cours
management. it said:
Considerable testimony wa
presented to the effect that cur
rent methods of operation of tn
golf courses are quite satisfactor
from the point of view that tn
public is receiving good services
that the courses are being KEEP
in good condition and that tn
/. fees charged are much more rea
, sonable than those charged b
, other courses in the Washington
area that offer similar facilitie:
= 1T was testified that the presen
lmanagement's bookkeeping ha
| been inadequate to properly pro
! tect the interests of the Govern
: ment in the distribution of ne
: income derived from operations
: This testimony was based on al
= investigation made about tW
years ago.
, RenueSf niSaIIowod