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Financial 

 Capital Outlay Budget 



Additions, alterations, and replacements of the heating system 

 in the Conservatories and Laboratory Building which began at the 

 Garden September 25 (official time, September 19), 1939, was 

 completed April 22, 1940. This was Park Department Contract 

 Number 132,460. The contractor was the Jacobs Engineering 

 Corporation, 101 Park Ave., New York City. The amount of the 

 appropriation was $8,280. 



Requests for the fiscal year, 1940-1941, were submitted to the 

 City Planning Commission in the summer of 1940, as follows: 



Capital Outlay Budget Requests for 1941 



1. Reconstruction of Outside Public Comfort Stations Laboratory 



Building $ 8,000.00 



2. Completion of Reconstruction of Plumbing System Laboratory 



Building 5,000.00 



3. Completion of Reconstruction Heating System Laboratory 



Building 15,000.00 



4. Completion of Resurfacing of Walks 7,500.00 



5. Treatment of Ceiling, Corridors and Rooms with Acoustical 



Covering 3,000.00 



$38,500.00 



Capital Budget Action of Board of list i mate: In the City Record 

 for November 2, 1940, which carries in a special section the 

 Proposed Capital Budget for 1941, and the Capital Program for 

 1942 through 1946, projects of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden are 

 listed as follows on page 34 : 



PV. 1 Botanic Garden, resurfacing of paved walks. (Con- 

 sidered a project more properly financed as an Expense Budget.). . . $7500.00 



Pv. 173 Acoustical Ceiling Treatment. (Considered a project 

 more properly financed as an Expense Budget.) 2760.00 



PV. 183 Public Comfort Station, reconstruction. (This pro- 

 ject may be undertaken during the Capital Program period 1942- 

 1946 to the extent that the total cost of all projects undertaken 

 within the limit of project PV. 208 does not exceed the §1,050,000.00 

 provided therein and to the extent that each year's allocation is not 

 exceeded.) 8000.00 



