Evening star., 1955-05-18
Budget Would
Pool Services
Montgomery Urged
To Create Centers


Innovations calling for central
ization of community services
highlight the $40 million capital
improvement budget prepared by
Montgomery County Manager
M. l.. Reese.
A combination of school,
health, recreation and library
facilities under one roof in a
community is proposed by the
manager in collaboration with
the Board of Education.
The first such unified program,
the Rocking Horse Educational
Center, is proposed with the con-
struction of an elementary school
at Rocking Horse road and Ran
doIph drive, near Viers Mill VIII
lage.
Mr.. Reese calls for $39, 900 for
a health clinic at the school,
$4,000 for a public library to
house 10000 books, and $4,000
for recreation equipment, storage
and public toilets.
$4,000 for Pool
He also proposed $50,000 for
purchase Of site for new po-
lice station at Wheaton and an
other $4,000 for swimming
pool in the same area.
The manager slashed So mil
lion off school board requests
for new classrooms, allowing the
board $5,425, 800. OF this amount,
only $2.4 million would come
from new bond authorizations.
The manager recommended a
public works program totaling
$50 million with $2.2 million of
this going for the long-range
business street improvement pro-
gram. Another 1921, 900 would
be used to install streets in con-
nection with new school projects.
Would Use Windfall
To help finance his public
works program, Mr.. Reese rec
ommends that the county use
$663. 500 it expects to receive as
its share of the windfall result
ing from imposition of the with
holding system of collection OF
State income taxes.
The manager recommends only
$3.50 900 for the parking lot pro-
gram in Silver Spring and $780,
900 for the program in Bethesda.
Relocation of the Bethesda and
Silver Spring police stations.
both in need Of more room and
more parking facilities, is pro-
posed. The sum of $4,000 for
each is recommended.
Also included in the managers
recommendations is provision
for construction of an $4,000
voting machine warehouse, a
$4,000 county supply warehouse,
and a $4,000 motor pool. Bids
already are being taken on a
$500, 900 liquor warehouse.
The manager suggests that
funds received from sale of right
of-way on the County Farm to
the State Roads Commission be
set aside for establishment of an
airport on county property. 1t
would replace the Congressional
Airport which is about to be
abandoned.
About SITS million of the cap
ital improvement budget would
be financed on a pay-as-you-go
basis out of surplus or from spe-
cial tax receipts.
Three More Libraries
The managers f1ve-year capi-
tai improvement program calls
for three more new libraries at
Rockville, Wheaton and in the
Western Suburban area costing
an estimated $444 900.
The long-range program en-
visages $195, 900 for the Wheaton
police station: and $4,000 for
the Wheaton swimming pool.
The swimming pool proposal
would appear to commit the
council to a countrywide pro-
gram that over a f1ve-year period
will cost $544,000, including
$158,000 for a pool in North Be-
thesda, $163.111 for one in the
Rockville area, and $4,000 for
land and plans for one in the
Sandy Spring -Olney area.
The five-year program also
calls for $4,000 for construc-
ton of another public golt
course for the county.
During the same five years
some $14.8 million worth OF
roads projects and $28.2 million
worth of schools are being CON.