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This was disclosed yesterday
by the District Budget Office.
The figure is an increase of
81 ,650S74 over the $306, ,416,-
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OIL total requests made by the
departments for the current
fiscal year.
Filing of the individual de-
partment proposals with the
District Budget Office is only
the first step in the lengthy
process followed before the
budget goes to Congress in
January. The department re-
quests are almost invariably
trimmed by the District Com
misSioners and later by Con-
greSS.
/ For example, the fiscal 1862
department requests total was
cut to $292, ,438,18 when sub
mitted by the Commissioners
to Congress, and was chopped
to 268,122,400 by the House.
The Senate District is now con-
sidering District request that
it restore $4,791,0OO.
Present Spending Curbed
Meanwhile. District opera
tionS are being financed under
joint resolution of Congress
which provides that the Dis
trlct may not start any new
programs or spend at a rate
in excess of that in the first
quarter of the last fiscal year.
Of the total departmental
budget requests proposed for
fiscal 1868, $248,O61 1888 is ear
marked for operating expenses
and $60,004,612 for capital out
lay.
Of the various categories of
general District Government
activities, health and welfare
agencies have applied for the
largest amount of operating
expense funds, $72,556,478.
Public schools come second
with a request for $59,049,325
in operating funds and public
safety units police, fire de-
partment and courts have
asked for $58, 1853.
Sanitary engineering (seWer
and water supply has asked
for $20,886,878 IN operating
funds; parks and recreation,
$8,867 ,633; highways and traf-
fic, 1,690,749, and general
operating agencies, $16,555,5O2.
More for Schools
The public schools request
for $59,049,325 in operating
funds for fiscal 1863 is an in
crease of $3,212,129 over the
amount requested for the cur
rent school year.
OF the regular District de-
partmentS, the Public Healtn
Department has asked for the
largest amount of operating
funds. $46,410,306, an increase
of $4,097,157 over the total
asked by the department for
the current fiscal year.
The Metropolitan Police De-
partment is requesting ST.
227,000, a decrease of $18O,019
from the amount asked for fis-
cal 1862.
Other major District depart
ment requests for operating
funds for fiscal 1868 and the
comparison to their proposals
for the current fiscal year
follow:
Public welfare, $25,704,872,
an increase of $3,656,227; sani-
tary engineering. $18,03O.878, a
boost of $869,235; highway de-
partment. $9,851,955, an in
crease of $552, ,723: and the fire
d p ar t ment, $12,263,000, up
S439,575.
Of the total capital outlay
funds request of $60,004,612,
S30,l51, 200 is earmarked for
public building construction,
5,185, 900 for the Department
0f Sanitary Engineering; $10,-
'62,100 for the Department of
Highways and Traffic, and
most of the remainder for debt
service.
The various departments
have asked for a grand total
Of 1853 additional employees in
fiscal 1868. Cost of paying these
personnel during the
next fiscal year is estimated at
S7,782,631.
The Board of Education has
asked for SIT additional en-
oloyes, of which 328 would be
,eachers. The welfare depart
nent has requested Ala new
and Public Health has
lsked for 286 more employees.
A total of Ill additional
policemen is being requested by
he Metropolitan Police. If Con-
sress provides funds for these
additional policemen and the
90 new policemen asked for
n the current fiscal year, the
'olice department will be only
6 short of having the 5000
nan force authorized by Con-
reSs.