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Mr. BROCKETT. May I say one thing relating to Dr. Barbour, whose statement you read, that is that Dr. Barbour has studied snakes down there, poisonous and otherwise, and his contributions, for antitoxins, and so forth, have been about the greatest that we have, and have extended down into South America.

Mr. WOODRUM. Thank you very much; it has been very interesting. Dr. JEWETT. I have tried to present the thing not as a biologist or fundamental scientist, but as a straight business man. Mr. WOODRUM. Thank you very much for coming up.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1941.

THE ALLEY DWELLING AUTHORITY

STATEMENTS OF JOHN IHLDER, EXECUTIVE OFFICER; DANIEL N. MANDELL, CHIEF, FINANCE AND ACCOUNTS OFFICE; MAURICE V. BROOKS, COUNSEL; AND WARD SIMMONS, DIVISION OF LAND ACQUISITION

REAPPROPRIATION OF UNEXPENDED BALANCES OF THE CONVERSION OF INHABITED ALLEYS FUND

Mr. WOODRUM. We have before us the following item for the Alley Dwelling Authority:

The unexpended balance on June 30, 1942, of the "Conversion of inhabited alleys fund," established pursuant to the provisions of the District of Columbia Alley Dwelling Act, together with all accretions during the fiscal year 1943 to said fund under the provisions of said Act and of the United States Housing Act of 1937 shall be available until June 30, 1943, for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of said District of Columbia Alley Dwelling Act.

GENERAL STATEMENT

Will you give us a statement on this, Mr. Ihlder?

Mr. IHLDER. Mr. Chairman, if it meets your approval, I should like to read our justification statement, and then insert the tables, or other tables which the committee would like to have, for the record. Mr. WOODRUM. You may proceed.

Mr. IHLDER. The Alley Dwelling Authority is requesting this committee to make available for the use of the Authority during the fiscal year 1943, the unexpended balance on June 30, 1942, of the "Conversion of inhabited-alleys fund," established pursuant to the provisions of the District of Columbia Alley Dwelling Act, together with accretions to this fund during the fiscal year 1943. The budget estimates of the Authority for the fiscal year 1943 anticipate that the balance brought forward from the prior fiscal year will be approximately $61,220 to which will be added anticipated receipts of $55,000, from rentals from the completed properties built under the title program. It is further estimated that the unexpended balance at the close of the fiscal year 1943 will be approximately $59,770.

We are discussing title I. We are going to describe our work under title II and in defense housing merely so that you may see the picture of what we are doing. But title I is now before you.

Mr. WOODRUM. There is nothing in the estimate before us for defense housing?

Mr. IHLDER. No; this estimate deals entirely with title I, title II and defense housing being added so you may see the whole picture. Mr. WIGGLESWORTH. How does the sum of those two figures compare with what you had this year?

Mr. MANDELL. Mr. Wigglesworth, we brought forward from 1941, the title I balance of $50,256. For the fiscal year 1942 we are estimating to carry forward $61,000, or approximately an $11,000 in

crease.

Mr. WIGGLESWORTH. What about the other figure, the $55,000? That is the accretions?

Mr. MANDELL. That is a flat figure. That runs every year about the same, so long as we have the present properties. It runs approximately the same figure every year.

Mr. FITZPATRICK. This does not require a new appropriation?
Mr. IHLDER. No; there is no new money here.

In accordance with section 2, Public Law No. 733, Seventy-fifth Congress, the Alley Dwelling Authority was authorized to borrow from the United States Treasury the sum of $1,000,000 a year for 5 years, beginning with the fiscal year 1939, for the purpose of continuing the title I program. The authorization came too late however to secure the appropriation for the fiscal year 1939. The fund for the fiscal year 1940 was submitted to Congress, but was deleted from the budget in the final hearings. Your committee approved it, but the Senate committee deleted it.

The Alley Dwelling Authority each fiscal year thereafter requested that the Treasury Department include the proposed borrowings of $1,000,000 per annum in its budget for the succeeding fiscal years of 1941, 1942, and 1943. This item has been eliminated, however, each year, at the request of the Budget Bureau for the reasons of economy and nondefense activities, the latter being the emphasis this year.

I might add for the purpose of clarification a brief description of the title I program. Congress originally made an appropriation of $500,000 for the purposes of title I of the District of Columbia Alley Dwelling Act. No additional amounts have been appropriated by Congress. The President, by direct allocation from the 1935 Emergency Relief funds, provided $365,000 to be used for construction purposes in continuing the title I program. With these moneys the Authority acquired 14 sites. Five of these sites were developed for housing with a total of 112 dwelling units. Five other sites, which were not adapted to reclamation for housing purposes, were developed for commercial uses, including individual garages, a repair shop, and a parking lot. One site and part of another were cleared and sold. In two other instances, sites were cleared and held for future disposition. From these completed properties the title I program now receives in rentals approximately $55,000 a year, or a gross return of 6 percent on the capital cost. All of these projects are self-supporting and the rents include taxes, interest, and amortization, as well as management, operation, and maintenance costs.

The work of the Authority in connection with the title I program since 1938 has been the administration of completed properties. The supporting green sheets for our budget list in detail the personnel

of the Authority. Approximately only 10 percent of the cost of personnel is applicable to the title I program. The remaining cost is distributed over the construction and management programs of projects under title II of the Alley Dwelling Authority Act.

The United States Housing Authority originally earmarked $15,000,000 for low-rent housing in the District of Columbia. Under that agency's method of financing, it loans 90 percent of the total development cost of any project. The remaining 10 percent is to be secured by sale of notes or bonds to private banks or from some other source, such as the local government. The Alley Dwelling Authority as of June 30, 1941, has entered into loan contracts with the United States Housing Authority for nine projects totaling $13,572,000. Negotiations for financing the 10 percent to be secured from private sources have not as yet been initiated. Accompanying this justification is a table presenting the details of these projects.

While these projects are in stages of construction the fund used for accounting for all costs is termed the title II development fund. After the projects are physically completed and when 95 percent occupancy has been reached these projects are then transferred to a fund that is termed "title II completed properties." This is not before the committee except as a matter of information so that it may understand the whole picture.

Into this fund go all receipts from the property, and from the fund are made all disbursements for the management of the completed properties. As of the date of this hearing four or five of these projects will have reached 100 percent occupancy.

The title II development fund is classified as a trust fund account and moneys can be disbursed from this fund only for properly authorized construction costs. The title II Completed Properties Fund is likewise classified as a trust fund and is in effect a revolving fund into which all the receipts flow and from which disbursements necessitated by the management can be paid.

A third trust fund account is the Langston management fund. On April 1, 1940, the Alley Dwelling Authority leased the Langston housing project from the United States Housing Authority. Under this lease the Alley Dwelling Authority collects all rents and makes disbursements necessitated in the management of this property.

At the present time the Alley Dwelling Authority is engaged in another type of work, namely, defense housing. In this work the Alley Dwelling Authority has been appointed as the agent for the Federal Works Agency in the construction and management of 550 dwellings for national-defense workers in the District of Columbia. During the construction period the Alley Dwelling Authority pays all construction costs by means of funds kept in a suballotment account of the Federal Works Agency. At the present time the Alley Dwelling Authority is constructing two defense housing projects in the District of Columbia, and a third is being built by the United States Housing Authority. The Alley Dwelling Authority, however, will be responsible for the management of all three properties Ipon completion. The financial set-up to be followed by the Alley Dwelling Authority acting as agent for the Federal Works Agency in the management of these properties will be as follows:

All receipts will be deposited into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the defense housing appropriation. Disbursements necessitated by the management will be paid from a separate account. The funds necessary for these disbursements will come directly from the Federal Works Agency on the basis of approved budgets. These budgets will cover a 3 months' estimate of the actual needed funds for planned disbursements for that period.

None of the above-described funds other than the title I funds require any action on the part of this committee. The information is provided however for your information and comments.

STATEMENTS SHOWING CASH BALANCES, RECEIPTS, DISBURSEMENTS, ETC.

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Contingent reserve: Equal to insurance premium__

Estimated returns: Unmatured collection contracts.

Total reserves and liabilities..

Retirement contribution Civil Service Commission Form No. 2806.

1, 492. 00 27, 046. 00

28, 538. 00

18, 842. 01

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