Agency Cost Explanation-For Costs Related to Civil Disturbance-April 4-9, 1968 This was for overtime costs for clerical help. 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. 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 estimated 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) associated 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 3 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 To date To date through June 30 Of the $36,440 costs to date, $25,385 was for labor and $11,555 was These costs were for small repairs and labor. This agency cannot GOVERNMENT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, EXECUTIVE OFFICE, Washington, May 8, 1968. Mr. JAMES T. CLARK, Clerk, House District Committee, Washington, D.O. 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----- Normal 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 Total........ 214 143 133 133 106 98 253 1,116 1,024 781 470 165 164 429 340 302 131 105 186 174 142 181 141 250 187 185 175 154 131 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 Loss of Business: April June $2,000,000 1, 500, 000 1,750,000 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. EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS DEALING WITH THE DISTURBANCES, CALLING OUT THE TROOPS, ETC. EXECUTIVE ORDER PROVIDING FOR THE RESTORATION OF LAW AND ORDER IN THE WASHINGTON METROPOLITAN AREA Whereas I have today issued Proclamation No. 3840, calling upon persons engaged in acts of violence and disorder in the Washington metropolitan area to cease and desist therefrom and to disperse and retire peaceably forthwith; and Whereas the conditions of domestic violence and disorder described therein continue, and the persons engaging in such acts of violence have not dispersed : Now, therefore, by virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces under the Constitution and laws of the United States, including Chapter 15 of Title 10 of the United States Code and Section 301 of Title 3 of the United States Code, and by virtue of the authority vested in me as commander-in-chief of the militia of the District of Columbia by the Act of March 1, 1889, as amended (D.C. Code, Title 39), it is hereby ordered as follows: SECTION 1. The Secretary of Defense is authorized and directed to take all appropriate steps to disperse all persons engaged in the acts of violence described in the proclamation, to restore law and order, and to see that the property, personnel and functions of the Federal Government, of embassies of foreign governments, and of international organizations in the Washington metropolitan area are protected against violence or other interference. SECTION 2. In carrying out the provisions of Section 1, the Secretary of Defense is authorized to use such of the Armed Forces of the United States as he may deem necessary. SECTION 3. (a) The Secretary of Defense is hereby authorized and directed to call into the active military service of the United States, as he may deem appropriate to carry out the purposes of this order, units or members of the Army National Guard and of the Air National Guard to serve in the active military service of the United States for an indefinite period and until relieved by appropriate orders. Units or members may be relieved subject to recall at the discretion of the Secretary of Defense. In carrying out the provisions of Section 1, the Secretary of Defense is authorized to use units and members called or recalled into active military service of the United States pursuant to this section. (b) In addition, in carrying out the provisions of Section 1, the Secretary of Defense is authorized to exercise any of the powers vested in me by law as commander-in-chief of the militia of the District of Columbia, during such time as any units or members of the Army National Guard or Air National Guard of the District shall not have been called into the active military service of the United States. SECTION 4. The Secretary of Defense is authorized to delegate to one or more of the Secretaries of the military Departments any of the authority conferred upon him by this order. THE WHITE HOUSE, April 5, 1968. LYNDON B. JOHNSON. LAW AND ORDER IN THE WASHINGTON METROPOLITAN AREA A PROCLAMATION BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Whereas I have been informed that conditions of domestic violence and disorder exist in the District of Columbia and threaten the Washington metropolitan area, endangering life and property and obstructing execution of the laws, and |