INITIAL INDICATION OF AGENCY COSTS OF DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIVIL DISTURBANCE-APRIL 4-9, 1968

2 Indicates figure includes estimated $200,000 Grant from Federal Government to Licenses and Inspections agency to help finance the estimated $300,000 costs of razing dangerous buildings and removing debris.

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Agency Cost Explanation-For Costs Related to Civil Disturbance-April 4-9, 1968
This was for overtime costs for clerical help.

Executive Office ($500).
Death Investigations ($532).

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3-11

Human Relations ($400)----

7

Buildings and Grounds ($10,932)--------

9

Corporation Counsel ($11,000)............

10

Metropolitan Police ($1,228,564).....

11

Fire ($290,376)..

12

Civil Defense ($2,000)..........

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Juvenile Court.

This was for overtime costs for clerical help and junior professional staff.

This was for overtime costs for clerical help and junior professional staff.

The to-date costs of $8,932 was for overtime costs incurred in providing additional guards around the clock for the District buildings and the Municipal Center. An additional $2,000 is needed for overtime costs incurred after April 9. The full costs of $10,932 will be met from within available funds.

Of this sum, $2,500 was for overtime costs to date. An additional $8,500 overtime costs are expected in connection with further legal actions.

The costs to date total $823,564 which are divided as follows: (a) Personnel overtime: $645,000; (b) Materials: $98,473; (c) Additional equipment and damage to equipment: $63,174; (d) Other miscellaneous: $16,917. Future estimated costs total $405,000, of which overtime accounts $265,000; pay for additional days associated with a temporary six-day work week: $90,000; and Court time pay: $50,000.

The costs to date of $190,370 include overtime pay: $137,500, compensatory time: $30,000; sick leave costs of $2,500; supplies and service costs of $10,191; damaged equipment: $10,185. The additional $100,000 estimated need is to meet overtime costs for the days of April 10-13, 1968.

The primary expense was for operating the Emergency Communications System Headquarters around the clock. This agency can absorb $595 but requires $1,405 of additional funds to meet the incurred costs which it can not absorb.

No significant costs have been incurred nor are expected that can not be absorbed as part of the regular program. There were few referrals from the Juvenile Division of the Metropolitan Police.

13-2 Court of General Sessions ($18,381)............................ A total of $17,181 was for personnel compensation and benefits

and $1,200 was for miscellaneous expenses. The Court expects
to be able to absorb these additional costs in full.

A total of $2,408 was for overtime and $144 was for materials,
These costs can be absorbed in full.

Although the attorneys of this agency worked over the week end
in providing representation in the Courts for indigent defendents
apprehended during the disturbance the agency will incur no
additional expense because the attorneys are paid on a yearly
basis rather than by the hour.

The costs to date of $101,740 were to provide $44,000 for overtime
and compensatory time; $35,000 for equipment and supplies
lost to fire; $12,740 for additional equipment and supplies
purchased; and $10,000 building damage due to fire. It is esti-
mated that an additional $60,000 will be needed for overtime
costs. CAPITAL OUTLAY of $10,000 will be needed for repairs
of building damaged by fire. Most of these costs were incurred
due to a "sympathy demonstration" by inmates.
Costs to date of $18,581 were mainly for equipment ($16,223) asso-
ciated with Licenses and Inspections work on the spot. Personnel
overtime payments costs $2,358. It is estimated that an additional
$310,500 will be needed; $10,500 for expected overtime payments
and $300,000 for removing unsafe buildings and removing debris
from razed buildings if owners are unable to do so and refuse to
do so. The Federal Government is making grant funds available
to finance 24 of this cost.

A sum of $80,000 was needed for custodial overtime to keep the
schools open and lighted. The other costs include $1,000 for fire
damage to the stage at Evans Junior High School; $2,000 for glass
breakage; at Wheatley, Coummel and Cardozo schools; $3,000
for small pilferage; and $15,000 for fire damage at Harris school.
CAPITAL OUTLAY of $15,000 is needed to repair Harris School
area damaged by fire. This agency will absorb the $86,000
operating costs.

Of this total $50,000 was for overtime for the Park Police and $3,000
was for restoring areas used by Military Forces.
This was for overtime costs.

The estimated costs are detailed below:

Food and related services..

Overtime.

Public assistance..

Crisis assistance.

Family Emergency Services.

Temporary assistance for unemployed

parents.

Emergency help..

Trucking services, gas and oil..

Total..

To date

To date through June 30

Of the $36,440 costs to date, $25,385 was for labor and $11,555 was
for materials and operating expenses. Future costs of $57,500 are
expected to repair damage to streets, sidewalks and trees.
Of the $62,511 costs to date, $60,503 was for overtime; $1,600 was
for contract costs at Kenilworth Land fill, and $408 was for equip-
ment costs. It is estimated that an additional $75,000 will be
needed to meet labor costs, including overtime payments,
through June 30.

These costs were for small repairs and labor. This agency cannot
absorb these additional costs.

GOVERNMENT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA,

EXECUTIVE OFFICE, Washington, May 8, 1968.

Mr. JAMES T. CLARK,

Clerk, House District Committee,
Longworth House Office Building,

Washington, D.C.

DEAR MR. CLARK: Following up on my letter of April 29, 1968 concerning the costs of the recent disturbances, I now have some figures for the cost of federalizing the National Guard and bringing in Army troops. They are as follows:

Gross Cost__
Less:

Normal Costs_----
Offset Costs_____.

Net Cost-----

$5, 394, 072

(2,966, 255) (246, 440)

2,181, 377

The normal costs are those which would have been expended for paying Army troops and their other costs wherever they would have been located. The offset costs are for items which were issued and subsequently returned after the disturbances. It is of interest that one of the largest costs was that of transportation, which was $1,050,960.

These costs included the cost of federalizing the National Guard, although the costs thereof other than salaries has not been computed. The pay for the National Guardsmen was $232,983.

I trust this information will be of assistance to you and the Committee.

Sincerely yours,

THOMAS W. FLETCHER.

AUTHORITY FOR USE OF TROOPS IN THE SUPPRESSION OF RIOTS

(D.C. Code, Title 39, Sec. 603)

When there is in the District of Columbia a tumult, riot, mob, or a body of men acting together by force with attempt to commit a felony or to offer violence to persons or property, or by force or violence to break and resist the laws, or when such tumult, riot, or mob is threatened, it shall be lawful for the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, or for the United States marshal for the District of Columbia, to call on the commander-in-chief to aid them in suppressing such violence and enforcing the laws; the commander-in-chief shall thereupon order out so much and such portion of the militia as he may deem necessary to suppress the same, and no member thereof who shall be thus ordered out by proper authority for any such duty shall be liable to civil or criminal prosecution for any act done in the discharge of his military duty. (Mar. 1, 1889, 25 Stat. 778, ch. 328 § 45; Feb. 18, 1909, 35 Stat. 634, ch. 146, § 48.) (See also U.S. Code, Title 32)

ARRESTS BY THE METROPOLITAN POLICE DEPARTMENT, GOVERNMENT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA By Day, March 30 through April 14, 1968

Other felonies and

misdemeanors.

Total....

214 143 133 133 106 98 429 340 302 131 105 186 174 142 181 141 250 187 185 175 154 131 1,172 1,753 1,421 953 603 391 396 262 202 174

Total number of fires between March 30, 1968 and April 14, 1968, both dates inclusive_____

1, 180

Number of BUILDING fires between March 30, 1968 and April 14, 1968, both dates inclusive____

668

Hotel losses since April 1968, due to civil disorders and poor people's encampment

Personnel loss: 875 less employees (in 31 hotels) today than normal for this time of year; $311,000 per month payroll loss to employees; and $8,000 per month loss in taxes to District of Columbia Government.

Type of Continuing Reservation Cancellation: Elks Convention scheduled for July, 1969, which had reserved 5,000 hotel rooms-canceled.

JUNE 11, 1968.