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mean a decrease in our income of $17,500 to $20,000.  Ilext year,
vie shall lose an income of $8,000 which the Interdepartmental
Social Hygiene Board has been giving us for the conduct of the
Department of Hygiene and Public Health.  In addition we shall
have an added burden of $3,000 for the cost'of operating the
Men's Dormitory, with practically no income, since under th6 law
we are reouirod to furnish free room rent to ox-scrvice men.
Our total general fund income will be in the neighborhood of
$565,000 for next year.

     "As as result of all this, we shall have to follow a policy
of retrenchment and rigid economy.  Salaries of members of the
staff must be hold down to the basis of this year; departments
will have to hold their expenditures to the same or less than given
this year; we shall have to cut the library budget, and the budget
for maintenance and repairs.  No repairs of any consequence can be
made, no increases in salaries can be granted, no additional allow-
ance can be made for the conduct of laboratories.  We shall be
fortunate if we hold our expenditures down to the basis of three
years ago.

     "Our repairs will suffer greatly.  We have been hoping for
the past three years to find funds to repair roofs on a number of
buildings.   These roofs will have to wait at least for two years
longer, bad as they need repairs.

     "In addition, the Hartford Fire Insurance Company tells us
that we have three boilers which will not pass inspection and that
they will have to be replaced next year.   These will cost in the
neighborhood of $10,000.   I do not know the source from which the
money is going to come with which to purchase these boilers.

     "Gentlemen, I want you to understand thoroughly the problem
that confronts us.   We want to hold what we have gained so far.
We do not want to go back, but I am afraid that we shall be com-
pelled to do so.   It will be difficult for us to hold what has
been gained in the past four years.   The situation is very seri-
ous.  The failure to secure the items in the budget bill forces
upon the general fund the burden of repairs and maintenance of
buildings.  We have buildings that need rewiring, buildings that
need new roofs, and numbers of other repairs to be made in order
to prevent further deterioration of the plant.

     "The budget for next year is not ready, because it has been
necessary to awatt the action of the Legislature before it was
possible to know what the income would be.   The budget is now
being made up by the various departments and I have indicated to
them what the general tendency will be.   We shall have the budget
ready for presentation to the Executive Cormnittee next month, and
for the Board at its June meeting.