the budget was not finalized until a late date, insisted that your budget be up and before their committees very early in the session for action prior to July 1 of this year.

Mayor WASHINGTON. That is correct.

Senator EAGLETON. You complied with this request, and set your budget up. Your budget has to have revenues to support it.

Senator Proxmire has no alternative, I take it, in order to try to balance the budget, but to make rather disastrous cuts up to 20 or 25 percent because the revenue was not forthcoming.

Mayor WASHINGTON. That is correct.

Senator EAGLETON. To your knowledge, the House Committee on the District of Columbia has the ability to enact and indeed must initiate that authority, except for the Federal payment, has not set hearings for that revenue.

Mayor WASHINGTON. That is at this point.

Senator EAGLETON. It doesn't say anything about already burdening you with, in addition. last week's fiasco.

Mayor WASHINGTON. We were $2.8 million short in that as you already know. So we face that $2.8 million which means that we have that additional burden to try to finance. But I think that it is fair to say that both the House and the Senate Appropriations Committees in their desire to move forward, and of course did so, and we now find ourselves in this position. Of course, your early holding of these hearings, Mr. Chairman, is going to do much certainly from the Senate side to put us in the framework that we should be in appropriately to consider the elements of our total budget.

In the 1971 Budget, I again point out that the budget is very modest. We believe that it is a tight budget. We cut the budget $24 million in base in an effort to comply and get a budget that we could handle within existing revenues but simply was not possible.

Further reductions in on-going programs would severely impair the integrity of city services. Increases other than mandatory are limited, totaling $17 million in workload items, $12 million in improved, and $7 million in new programs. Though not "mandatory” in the budget sense, we regard many of these latter increases as extremely important. For example, without workload increases in the Department of Finance and Revenue, the full potential of our tax base cannot be realized. Crucial and integral parts of the criminal justice system will not be able to move forward to keep up with the expanded effort in our Police Department-some of our requested increases for 1971 which require new revenue include expansion of the roving leader program, staff to insure proper custody and security in correctional institutions and the Receiving Home, continuation of the Federally-funded adult narcotics program, the Narcotics Treatment Agency's proposed program of urinalysis testing of persons released to the community on a supervisory basis, and decentralized juvenile probation units to secure a more effective supervision and rehabilitation effort.

The development of our two new public colleges, the Washington Technical Institute and Federal City College, will be critically damaged without needed faculty. Federal City College, for example, to even partially begin third year operations, would have to eliminate many of its first year programs and students and divert whatever staff possible to third year programs. Also included in workload new

and improved requests are important proposals to resolve some of the serious situations which have come to light over the past yearlimited additional staff to allow greater participation in the food stamp program; an increase in welfare benefit standards which tries to at least keep some pace with the spiraling cost of living; part-time staff to extend outpatient clinic hours at District of Columbia General Hospital; a new program to insure that our Spanish-speaking population has full access to city services they may need but not be aware of or able to secure due to the obstacle of language; a broad-based effort to insure that every schoolchild will no longer lack the essential educational resources needed for his development.

Senator EAGLETON. May I break in at that point.

Mr. Mayor, you have just recited, I take it, a series of programs covering the whole gambit of municipal government relating to police, juvenile agencies, narcotic treatment, Federal City College, food stamp programs, District of Columbia General Hospital, et cetera, which programs will be either totally eliminated or significantly curtailed unless there is an additional Federal payment forthcoming. Is that the gist of what you are saying?

Mayor WASHINGTON. That is the gist of what I am saying.

Senator EAGLETON. Would you say that if this Federal payment is not forthcoming and you are forced to go ahead on the austerity budget premised on a $105 million Federal payment, which is the present law, that Washington, D.C., will be something other than a first-class municipal government?

Mayor WASHINGTON. I think so, Mr. Chairman, because of the broad range of funds involved in this cut. We are making a breakthrough, for instance, in narcotics. As Senator Tydings said the other day, this is one of the real programs in the Nation. We are talking about money. In a hundred days we have been able to put 1,400 addicts under treatment. In the last 5 months we have seen a decline in crime. We have some of our programs here in the police area. We have the quality of our schools of higher education as well as the school system all involved, and when you take and curtail these across the board, there is nothing that one can say except that it is going to have a serious impact upon the ability to give appropriate services across the municipal spectrum.

Senator EAGLETON. Has there been any program that has been more discussed and on which there has been more congressional and senatorial posturing than narcotics in this city and any other city, I guess, throughout the country.

Mayor WASHINGTON. In every city in America.

Senator EAGLETON. What would be your evaluation if the budget goes forward as cut through the narcotics treatment and rehabilitation program in the District of Columbia?

Mayor WASHINGTON. There is no question but that it would have to be seriously curtailed. We have at this point shopped around, Mr. Chairman, and gotten from Federal sources money that keeps us at this level even now. Without some help from our direct appropriation we at this time can see no other fund that would be forthcoming, and one of the best programs in the city and in the Nation would be seriously curtailed, so serious that I shudder to think of it. I just

can't really, at this point, sit at the table and say precisely what that curtailment would be in terms of its impact, not only on our drive in the criminal area which everybody is concerned about, but in terms of just health. We are having 150 addicts a week walk in off the street and submit to treatment. And to curtail that program at a time when there is hope for the treatment of addicts in order to get them out of the criminal system, it seems to me, Mr. Chairman, that here we cut off our nose to spite our face. It is just incredible.

Senator EAGLETON. Even if we move on or out of the area of decency, which some people view that word in different context, but we get into really tough areas that everybody really is for. More money for police, law and order. Aren't you going to have to cut your police budget?

Mayor WASHINGTON. Yes, and to some degree it is not a heavy cut and again it is going to necessitate our cutting back seriously. We have something over a hundred men in the budget that would be lost. This would give us a hundred civilians that would permit us to free a hundred policemen.

Senator EAGLETON. Isn't it a current trend around the country of our supposedly enlightened police departments to try to augment their civilian payroll, Federal graphic work, et cetera, that is indispensably necessary for a professional force. So as to put more professional police officers on the street to be replaced by civilians in the various precincts and police headquarters. Isn't that a national trend? Mayor WASHINGTON. It has been recognized by the Congress of the United States. They have said to us, both Houses, both sides, that this is a trend that we would like to see and we are moving in that direction at this time. As you point out, it is a national trend to get as many foot patrolmen on the street as possible as a deterrent as well as a protective device for our citizens, and we are moving precisely in this direction. And I would say that beyond narcotics and crime that the higher education in the schools and our health programs and welfare programs all form a mass of needs for this community as well as all other cities. I just had a meeting with the President on Saturday in the White House with the president of the National League of Cities and the president of the national Conference of Mayors and the overriding cry as these men bring the problem to us, of cities, is the need to close the gap between the need and revenue, but indeed to get the revenue so that many of these programs that are picking up nationally can go forward for the welfare of the community. The cities are in trouble, Mr. Chairman.

Senator EAGLETON. You met with President Nixon and these other gentlemen including some of the other mayors. Does President Nixon support your proposal for 30 percent Federal payment?

Mayor WASHINGTON. Yes.

Senator EAGLETON. To your knowledge is he enthusiastic and unqualified and unhesitating in that support?

Mayor WASHINGTON. I would say yes without qualifications. I think this is the second year that he has supported this proposal and I am very sure from what has been said and from the fact that it has cleared the Bureau and the President has submitted it that he is not only enthusiastic and that this is not only a need as in terms of money

but as a planning device to give us the ability to do some long-range planning to develop some flexibility beyond just the dollar amount. Senator EAGLETON. Do you intend to ask the President to make his support of this program more vocally known, more audible?

Mayor WASHINGTON. We certainly will do so, Mr. Chairman. Senator EAGLETON. Just to complete the record I will read an excerpt from the House Appropriations, District of Columbia Subcommittee with respect to the police budget from which they whacked $697,800 and on this they say:

This is the first time the committee has not been able to substantially allow the full request. This is due entirely to the lack of available revenues.

You may proceed.

Mayor WASHINGTON. I think we have given some attention and time appropriately to those facets of our municipal program that relate to Federal payment and operating funds. I think the additional $27 million to be provided under this 30 percent Federal payment formula would be an enormous help to our ability to move forward with small but essential programs to improve the quality of life in the District and to make our city an attractive, livable, and safe environment for citizens and for visitors.

I now want to discuss the capital improvements financing program. Mr. Chairman, today the District government has before this committee a major proposal dealing with the financing of its capital improvements program. As you are aware, we are faced with critical problems in relation to the financing of public facilities within the District government. Currently our capital improvements program is funded through loans received from the U.S. Treasury. These loans are made under authority from legislation which has been passed by the Congress. It is projected that the special funds within the District will completely exhaust these loan authorities either by the end of fiscal year 1970 or early fiscal year 1971. The general fund will exhaust its authority by fiscal year 1972. This condition necessitates new legislative action to provide continuing sources for financing capital budgets.

Senator EAGLETON. Mr. Mayor, could you, or your financial expert, for the purpose of spelling out a little more completely in the record, edify me with respect to the distinction between special funds and general funds, et cetera.

Mayor WASHINGTON. Yes, sir.

Mr. COPPIE. Mr. Chairman, we currently have four major funds in the District of Columbia to sustain our capital program needs. In the general funds which is responsible to financing our general public works construction, schools, hospitals, and welfare institutions. We have a formula to establish our debt ceiling and that formula is set at 6 percent of our revenue in the amount that we will project over a 30-year period. Then we also have a special fund and this is in direct response to your question, Mr. Chairman, for construction of the highway program and that has been set at $5,250,000 and all of the loan authority in that fund is exhausting. In the water fund which is the fund which is used to construct water mains and water improvement in the District of Columbia. We have an authorization of $35 million.

All but $2 million of that authorization has been used. And the sanitary sewage work fund, which is the fund that is used to construct sanitary sewer improvements in the District of Columbia, we have an authorization of $32 million and that authorization is exhausted.

I believe that is the response to your question, Mr. Chairman. Senator EAGLETON. For me to summarize it, and clarify me if I am summarizing it improperly. On highway funds-you have exhausted your authority on that. On water-you are about at the end, you have $2 million to go or you are almost out of business on that. On sanitary sewage works-you have exhausted your authority on that. On Metropolitan area sanitary sewage works-you are near the end of the line on that fund. You do have some moneys left in the general fund but totally inadequate to go forward with the kind of programs you have in mind.

Mr. COPPIE. Absolutely correct, Mr. Chairman.

Mayor WASHINGTON. In view of that statement, Mr. Chairman, I would say that the District, some 18 months ago, began preparing both a comprehensive documentation of a 6-year public works plan that related to both program needs and means for financing these program needs. Because public facilities have such a great influence on the pattern of urban growth, capital programing is probably the most important tool at the disposal of the city government for implementing its future development. The analysis of our future program needs over the next 6 years included the following major items.

1. Major construction for police district station houses based on the planned consolidation of the District police precincts into six police districts. Of course, I might say, parenthetically, it is there that our whole system of communication, which has taken over a million dollars and has been tied into all of the Metropolitan area as a way of system projection, is involved in that consolidation.

2. A new police headquarters building as a part of the City Hall complex to relieve overcrowding in the East Administration Building. 3. The replacement of five old fire houses and three additional new fire stations to serve areas of the city which are now inadequately protected.

4. Construction of a new District of Columbia jail.

5. A new District court building needed in order to eliminate the existing dispersion among the court's operations, and bring many of the courtrooms that are now being leased into one court complex.

Senator EAGLETON. Will the problems connected to the court's facilities be further exasperated if the crime bill is ultimately passed with the court reform in it containing many additional new judges? Mayor WASHINGTON. Yes, it will be a question of how we can locate them, Mr. Chairman. We are now proposing to lease a part of a building at Sixth and G and also parts of the Pension Building. There is a cost factor involved in this expansion, assuming that the court bill passes, which means that the judges would have to be located in some form. I'm not exactly sure what that impact is at the moment but it is certainly related.

6. A new major construction for urgently needed school programs to relieve overcrowding, to replace obsolete, and inadequate buildings and to modernize existing buildings.