ACTIVITY DATA SHEET Grade Permanent Formanent Other TOTAL EXPENSES FOR ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY C.O. No Staffing Pattern is projected. Grades of those employees remaining Personnel compensation: Central office Field 11 Total personnel compensation Other Obiects 12 Personnel benefits 13 Benefits for former personnel 21 Travel Travel (motor pool) 22 Transportation of things 23 Rents and utility services Communication services 24 Printing and reproduction 25 Other services 26 Supplies and materials 31 Equipment 32 Lands and structures Request, 1974 $3,121,000 7,282,000 $10,403,000 817,000 1,993,000 2,520,000 507,000 1,086,000 242,000 15,317,000 115,000 33,000,000 Total Other Objects 22,597,000 Total Obligations Position Data Average salary, GS positions Average grade, GS positions $17,014 10.5 GENERAL QUESTIONS Mr. STEED. We will now turn to some general questions. First I would like for you to do this for the record. I would like to have a tabulation, if you can make one, by categories or functions of the number of people this year and the number that you are seeking next year and the increase or decrease. If you can, do this by appropriation and fund. Mr. SAMPSON. You want appropriation and fund? Mr. STEED. Yes, so that each year all you would have to do would be to update it. [The information follows:] GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION, AVERAGE EMPLOYMENT, FISCAL YEAR 1973 AND 1974 CONTRACTS TO INDUSTRY Mr. STEED. What are you doing in the way of contracting out to private industry for the services that GSA must perform? Could you give us a reading on what the dollar value of those contracts is and the purpose of that type of arrangement? Mr. SAMPSON. We can give the dollar amounts for the record. [The information requested follows:] Illustrations of Contracts Entered Into by GSA Purpose Site appraisals Architectural-engineering services Construction contracts Payment for financing and constructing purchase contract pro jects under package system_ Cleaning contracts Protection contracts Mechanical and equipment maintenance_. Leases Maintenance and repair of GSA motor pool vehicles-- Receiving, handling, and shipping supply items, including pack- Systems and programing support-- Systems software development__ Strategic and critical materials-handling and preservation of stockpile materials Econometrics studies of market trends in metals__ Total Amount $164, 875 5,848, 831 645, 014, 194 104, 526, 577 14, 500, 000 4, 900, 000 4, 050, 000 282, 100, 000 6, 888, 000 2, 190, 000 700, 000 900, 000 3,500,000 800, 000 2, 647, 000 360, 000 1, 079, 089, 477 CLEANING AND PROTECTION Generally what we are doing, our largest inhouse force is cleaning of public buildings, and our second largest force is the protection of Federal buildings. In both areas we are experimenting in different parts of the country by contracting for these services instead of using inhouse employees. As far as cleaning is concerned, we are having varying degrees of success, because most cleaning businesses use itinerant labor, don't have a steady work force, don't have good training. So we are having some difficulty in that respect. We are tightening up on our specifications in this area. Better companies are now forming today than there were a couple of years ago, and we have had a couple of pretty good contracts. We have gone into incentive cleaning contracts in our own building as I testified. We are also testing the purchase of contract service for protection. Many protective agencies are forming around the country now because of security problems in the private sector, and some of these now are being used in the public sector. Those are two of the major areas where we are contracting. Mr. STEED. On the subject of protection is that similar to what some of the airports are doing for the checking of passengers boarding planes? Mr. SAMPSON. It is similar. Mr. STEED. I notice there is a number of private companies that are providing the manpower for these programs. Mr. SAMPSON. This is becoming a major industry in America by the way. SAN CLEMENTE Mr. STEED. Could you give us any information that will make the record clear on the cost, purpose, and justification of the work performed at San Clemente for the President that comes under your jurisdiction? Mr. SAMPSON. The work we do on the President's residence is at the request of the Secret Service. This is the only work we are authorized to do and pay for. We do no other work on the President's residence. We have done work on office space adjacent to the residence, which is office space for Federal employees and for the President. On his residence our work is restricted exclusively to the work requested by the Secret Service. I will give you an example. They would require some posts to stand in and watch the house, something of that kind. Mr. STEED. What happens to any of these improvements after his term of office is over? Mr. SAMPSON. As far as I know, most of those that could not be utilized by the Government would stay. Mr. CASSELMAN. The security continues anyway. ARTICLE IN ATLANTA JOURNAL Mr. STEED. I have an article from the May 29 issue of the Atlanta Journal. I suppose other newspapers carried this AP story in which they list a number of items taken from building permit records. I don't know if they quote the General Services Administration. Could you go over that list and either verify it or correct it and put it in the record? Mr. SAMPSON. Yes. [The Atlanta Journal article and the GSA comment follows:] SECRET SERVICE ORDERED SAN CLEMENTE IMPROVEMENTS WASHINGTON—The White House says more than $100,000 in improvements made at President Nixon's San Clemente, Calif., estate during the past 4 years were requested by the Secret Service "for the protection of the President." The projects included a new electric heating system for the President's Spanish-style mansion, a $3,360 storage shed, more than $50,000 forth of brick or redwood fences and a $13,000 bullet-proof windscreen alongside the presidential swimming pool. Building permits were issued by the city of San Clemente for about $70,000 worth of Government-financed improvements. The rest apparently was done without building permits. The federally financed work was in addition to the $123,514 that the White House said last week the Nixons had spent themselves for improvements on their home and 5.9-acre homesite. In a statement Friday, disclosing that Nixon had sold the bulk of his estate to one of his wealthy friends, New York industrialist Robert M. Abplanalp, the White House would not provide a breakdown on the $123,514 figure. The transaction took place in December 1970-18 months after Nixon had purchased the oceanside property with $625,000 loaned him by Abplanalp. The loan was canceled in the subsequent transaction that left Nixon with a net investment of $374,514 for the house and 5.9 acres, and Abplanalp with an investment of $1.2 million for the remaining 23 acres. The entire tract, including the portion now owned by Abplanalp, remains under Secret Service guard. It is immediately adjacent to a Coast Guard station, which serves as the site of the President's office and other buildings constituting the western White House. After the Associated Press reported Monday that the Federal Government had spent more than $100,000 for improvements on Nixon's estate, a White House spokesman issued a statement saying "All the work done at the western White House as listed in the Associated Press story was requested by the Secret Service for protection of the President. "If the Associated Press has recommendations to make to the Secret Service as to how the President and his family should be protected, the Associated Press should outline those suggestions at the same time it carries a story which implies the President has improved his property at the expense of the Government," said the statement given by deputy White House press secretary Gerald L. Warren. A Secret Service spokesman also issued a statement saying, "We recommended all of the items for the compound." Building permits on file with the city of San Clemente list these federally financed projects: -A $42,500-8-foot brick and concrete block wall stretching for about 1,400 feet around three sides of the President's property. -Three gazebos and a gatehouse costing an estimated $22,000. -A $3,360 storage shed with stucco walls to blend into the Spanish-style architecture of the President's house. -A $2,000 cabana on the beach beneath Nixon's house, plus a 60-foot redwood crossover on the railroad tracks which run beneath the beach and the house. In addition, maps contained in the city's building permit files indicated other projects had been undertaken, although building permits apparently have not been issued for them. Asked about specific projects indicated on the maps, the General Services Administration-in responses related through the White House press office-listed these other projects: -A $13,500 electric heating system in the Nixon home to replace a previous system, which officials deemed a "security risk" because of the danger of fire or explosion. -A $12,964 glass screen installed alongside the President's swimming pool. The glass is 14 inches thick and is bullet proof. -An $11,561, 6-foot redwood fence extending for about 800 feet between Nixon's property and the beach. -$1,500 spent for paving a road linking the President's house with his office on the adjacent Coast Guard property. The White House listed these four projects totaling about $39,500 on Saturday in response to queries from newsmen on Government improvements at the Presidential estate. Most of the Government-financed projects were undertaken as part of "Operation Sunrise," a crash program launched by the Government soon after Nixon bought the property in mid-1969. In addition to the Government work, city records disclose several other projects apparently paid for by the Nixons as part of their $123,514 in improvements. These include the swimming pool costing more than $5,000, a fireplace in the President's study costing an estimated $2,000 and renovation of the kitchen at a cost estimated at $7,000. The kitchen project is the latest to be undertaken. Begun in November, it included the installation of two new sinks, two food warmers, a dishwasher, a clothes washer and dryer, a garbage disposal, and an appliance described in city records as a "trash masher." [The GSA comment follows:] The list of the work items contained in the article of the May 29, 1973, edition of the Atlanta Journal, except for the storage shed, were items which were accomplished by GSA at the request of the Secret Service for the protection of the President. PAINTING Mr. ADDABBO. If you yield Did GSA have anything to do with the painting of the David Eisenhower home out in Maryland? Were those White House painters? |