Evening star., 1954-09-23
Requests Rise
S11 Million for
D. {. Agencies
Operating Expenses
For '56 Budget Put
AT $14O Million

tor DO Duo9eV TuC
AT $140 Million
District department heads
have asked the Commissioners
for an $11, ,023 .593 increase in OPP
Grating expenses to run their
agencies during fiscal year 1856.
it was disclosed today.
The total of operating budget
requests is $140,596,791 as COM
pared to a congressional appro-
priation of $129,573,l98 for the
current year.
The operating budget figure
for the year beginning next July
/ is the sum of departmental
requests released for publication
over the past week. Still to
come is the capital outlay budget
to cover building of public works.
most of it under the Districts
new 10-year program. This Is
to be released tomorrow.
Requests Released Today.
The last departmental re-
quests, released today and in
cluded in the operating budget,
included the Department OF
Buildings and Grounds, the Of
flee of the Surveyor, Compensa-
ton and Retirement Fund ex-
penses, the Department of We
hicles and Traffic and the Motor
Vehicle Parking Agency.
Largest of these was for Build
ings and Grounds, which re-
quested $1.712,000-an increase
Of $36,358 over the current year.
The department. which main
tains 19 buildings for the District
Government, said $19,647 of its
increased cost would be to take
care of the old Corcofan School
building, occupied by the High
way Department and charged
against its budget.
Employees ''Reallocated."
Like most other departments.
the agency's employees have been
"reallocated" recently-largely to
promote and upgrade them. This
will cost $5,982 in higher pay
during the next fiscal year. the
department said.
The total of pay increases
caused by reallocation for all de-
partments was listed at $277 ,951.
The Department of Buildings
and Grounds also asked $1,000 to
rehabilitate the No. / elevator
in the Juvenile Court building;
$14,974 to add four building
guards and a guard lieutenant to
the present force of 81; $4,000
for a floor scrubbing and polish
ing machine at the Municipal
Center building; $2,750 for a
foreman to run the District
S buildings 39-man cleaning force.
r and similar amounts for a fourth
. janitor engineer at Fire Depart
ment headquarters and for Sec
: ond elevator supervisor.
: The Office of the Surveyor
: asked for $163,515-an increase
of $14,315. OF this, $3.50 would
be for a cartograhpic craftsman
and two photographic survey aids
to help keep up the plat books
and $4,000 would be for printing
: a revised map of the Districts
: Plan for the Permanent System
of Highways, last published in
1851.
$4,000 Increase Asked.
! A total of $10,225, ,000-an in
v crease of $18,000-was requested
, for Compensation and Retire.
t ment Fund expenses to provide
e for an extra widow on the pen
3 sion rolls and to Offset higher
e pay to per diem workers and an
increase in the cost of nursing
services.
The Traffic Department asked
T for $1,134.479-a reduction OF
! ,$103,877, because the depart
t ment is no longer responsible
= for the budget of the Motor
i Vehicle Parking Agency.
C The department requested
e $9,775 to cover reallocations and
n asked for $4,000 to finance a
S modernization of its traffic sig
nal system, including five signal
t engineers, a statistician. two
4 craftsmen and field car driver
- It also wants an extra drivers
permit examiner to test. the
peripheral vision of prospective
motorists and two other exam
Q iners to help out during the
II summer.
: The department asked fol
!, S66,730 to administer the new
= = Motor Vehicle Safety Response
- - bility Act, adding to the present
= three-man staff a future proof
officer" q security control clerk
!, clerk-stenographer apd J.
u clerk-typists.
= The sum of $6,700 was re-
= ouested for the second year O
~ ~ a three-year program to com
plete establishment Of the Cen
trail Driver File, including fur
nishing of conference rooms To-
Il interviewing motorists who rul
v afoul of the point system O
keeping track of traffic viola