The following information regarding obligations against grant funds received by the District of Columbia, prepared and submitted to the House Appropriations Subcommittee in March, 1970, is the lastest compilation available: The significant differences between 1970 and 1971 estimated obligations are as follows: Office of the Assistant to the Commissioner on Housing Programs .. FY 1970 FY 1971 2,420 7,959 949 196 ... 102 216 216 1,953 1,795 1,353 199 454 -6 132 -23 17 711 Policemen REASONS THE COSTS OF THE DISTRICT GOVERNMENT GO UP Personnel costs (for those personnel employed) are going up. (Salaries and benefits). $8,000 7,000 1965 Increase $6,010 A significant amount of the The size of its service populations are not static but "may" have leveled off).' increase over the 1963-69 period represented by this. Non-personnel costs (for what services the District is performing now) are going up: Example: 1965 1970 UP Rates per day per patient at D. C. General Hosp. $43.46 $93.50 115% Monthly payments to police pensioners (000) $627 $1,335 113% The District has special district and county functions that most other cities don't have such as: Public Schools, Colleges, Health, Welfare The District has special functions that are normally in state budgets that almost no other city has, such as: The variable functions of the special district, county and state functions which the District has and most 0-1 The District has tried to take advantage of Federal grant programs. This has meant increases for matching or possible assumption of programs when grants expired. Footnote: between cities. The above also helps to explain a significant difference in statistics on city employees per 1,000 However it should be noted Milwaukee does not have many of the District functions in the city government. Thus, there are about 9,000 employees not shown who work for the school district. The ratio of city the District. government employees to population for Baltimore and Boston (41 and 37/1000) is much closer to that of These cities have more functions than most other cities. There is a special report developed by the District Government and the Bureau of the Census that considers this relationship (See Tab "R"). 0-2 |