Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-05
; New Projects
Askedin Budget
For Recreation
$2.4oS.67l Request
Lists Project for
Youth in SIums

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programs are sought in District
Recreation Department budget
requests for the next fiscal year,
approved by the Budget Office
and recommended to the Com
lmissioners.
! They would provide a "de-
monstration project" to persuade
underprivileged youngsters to
Join an active recreation pro-
gram, a public hospitals pro
gram to help mental pa
tients or persons suffering from
Disagreement prepare to leave
the hospital and a program
of instrumental and vocal music,
and the techniques of operate
production.
The request also proposes to
Ilengthen operation of centers for
senior citizens" open six super
vised youth centers an extra
evening each week and open
three school gymnasiums an ex-
ira evening weekly for organ
lied governmental sports groups.
S2,4SS.671 Budget
The total departmental budget
proposed is $2,498,671. of which
$446.671 would 60 for capital
outlay items to open three new
recreation areas and improve II
others, build six new shelters, re-
habilitate two others, install
heating in another two and pro-
wide night lighting at two play
grounds. This would give the
lcity seven such areas, with IA
to be lighted under the Districts
IlO-year public works program.
The $2,052, 900 operating bud
Iget is $133.943 higher than that
for the current year. The in
lcrease would add two full-time
recreation supervisors to the pre-
Isent staff of 1874 to operate the
following newly developed areas:
Hart Junior High School, Dakota,
Emery, Fort Reno, Forest Hills
and Trinidad.
The new programs would be
Stated by seven other new rec
Ireation supervisors, three Of
whom would work with the DEM
onstartion project. In addition,
the department asked for one
clerk.
| Request Cut
| The department asked orig
inally for an increase of $27O,277
in its operating budget but took
a cut of $136,334, or more than
so per cent.
/ The slash basically affects
proposed plans for playground
operation expansion and q
stepped up program of night
activities at youth centers dur
ing the winter.
i Some Is or 80 youth centers
using school gymnasiums as
meeting places, are now operat-
ing one or two nights q week
Had the extra money been
Forthcoming, schedules would
have been increased to three OF
four nights a week.
Extra funds are needed. the
Recreation Department said, tc
defray added costs of custodial
service and for salaries for youth
center staff members.
Other Requests
Other budget requests for fisca,
1858 include one for sos, 900 from
the Veterans Service Center
which Director Waldron E
Leonard already has decided /,
$500 too high. Although he asked
! for the $500 raise over last year.
budget to pay salary increases
OF workers upgraded by thu
Personnel Office, he decided t.
absorb the funds. He was tor
late, though, to get the request
out OF the published budget.
, Most Of the Districts regula.
tory agencies complained il
would be impossible for them Il
absorb such costs and sought
| funds to meet the added expense
The Alcoholic Beverage Con.
troll Board asked for a budget o.
| $4,000, with a raise of $21,45;
to hire four new inspectors K
increase inspections and copI
with added inspections resultin,
! from the recent imposition O.
taxes on wines.
The Parole Board asked fol
$4,000. an increase Of 1924:
designed to permit hiring a new
field parole officer and a clerk.
stenographer,
The District Morgue requested
$72.500 and asked to hire a clerk.
stenographer to meet complaint,
that copies Of records cannot BE-
obtained from the Office. The
budget request is $l0.544 lower
than funds allotted for the cur.
rent year, when repairs were
being made to the building.
Insurance Department
The Department Of Insurance
asked for i've new emnloves--