1974 supplemental appropriation
($25,000-window cleaning safety devices, Cannon Building)
($27,000-loading dock improvements, Longworth Building ).
1974 reappropriation (1972-73 appropriation balance continued available to 6/30/74).
1974 supplemental for Wage-Board pay raises.
Maintenance Air-Conditioning systems: 2 nonrecurring items allowed under this allotment for 1974, not required for 1975 $14,000 for replacement of 650 pneumatic-operated hot water valves located throughout the Cannon Building; $31,000 for casement window air-conditioning units for the House Annex (Congressional Hotel).
Development of Rooms 2358-2362, 3rd floor, Rayburn Building,
for use of Appropriations Committee: nonrecurring
reappropriation, not required for 1975......
Modernization of the 11 passenger elevators in the Cannon
Building: nonrecurring item allowed for 1974, not
required for 1975..
Repairs to terrazzo floor, basement corridor, Longworth
Building: nonrecurring item allowed for 1974, not
Replacement of battery systems, emergency power, Cannon and Longworth Buildings: nonrecurring item allowed for 1974, not required for 1975.
Installation of window cleaning safety devices on exterior
window frames, Cannon Building: non recurring item
allowed for 1974, not required for 1975......
Loading dock improvements, Longworth Building: nonrecurring
item allowed for 1974, not required for 1975.
Authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5343, 5344, 5349:
Increase, determined as a result of surveys commenced
in August 1973, resulting from new wage rates
effective October 28, 1973 under the Federal Wage
System, affecting 605 Wage-Board employees carried
under this appropriation, paid at new rates for 8
months in fiscal year 1974 and required to be paid at
such rates for 12 months in fiscal year 1975. Full
year cost, $466,000, less part year cost, $310,000,
requested as a 1974 Pay Supplemental -- Additional
amount required for 1975..
Within-grade promotions authorized under the Prevailing
Rate System for Wage-Board employees compensated under
such system.....
Within-grade salary advancements and other changes
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5331-5337 for "GS" employees
compensated under "General Schedule" Pay Rates
(Classification Act)
Overtime and Holiday Pay (5 U.S.C. 5544) increased from
$832,100 to $847,000, resulting from base pay changes
authorized by law.
Payment to Employees' Health Benefits Fund increased
from $94,800 to $98,000, authorized by 5 U.S.C. 8906..
This increase is requested to adjust the allotment
to actual current cost of this item.
Contribution to retirement fund increased from $424,800 to $435,000, covering Government contribution to this fund required by 5 U.S.C. 8334, resulting from increased base pay rates..
Total Increase - MANDATORY ITEMS.
2 Wage-Board-09 Painters @ $9,860 per annum each.. For many years, under rules set by the House Office Building Commission, Congressional offices were normally allowed to be painted once in every except where such painting was required due to Occupancy changes resulting from turnover in the House, due to election changes, deaths, resignations, and other such causes. The rules were changed by the Commission in February 1973. Under the new rules, painting of Congressional offices is now allowed every two years.
To take care of the more frequent painting authorized, it
is requested that 2 additional painters be added to the
regular year-around force, in lieu of requesting that the
annual painting allotment be doubled.
Since staffing of the Rayburn Building, upon its
completion and occupancy in 1965, a regular year-around
force of 7 painters and I helper have been allowed for
annual painting work required in the Cannon, Longworth, and
Rayburn Buildings, and since 1972 also the House Annex.
addition, an annual painting allotment varying in amounts
from $40,000 to $50,000 has been allowed for the hire of
day labor and procurement of paint materials to supplement
the year-around force during peak periods, such as recesses
and adjournment of Congress, when the amount of painting
done is extra heavy.
The present regular year-around force provided annually
since 1965 consists of 1 Foreman, 1 Assistant Foreman, 5
painters, and I helper. Under the funds requested for
1975, it is proposed to augment this force by the addition
of 2 painters, which, if allowed, will increase the total
number of painters and helpers from 8 to 10.
The cost of adding 2 painters is, for basic pay, $19,720.
Addition of overtime work on Saturdays, contribution to
health benefits fund, life insurance fund, and retirement
fund would increase the annual total to approximately
$23,000, or approximately one-half of the cost that would
be entailed by increasing the annual painting allotment to
provide for handling the extra painting through use of day
labor.
Total Increase NEW POSITIONS.
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Annual Painting increased from $50,000 to $63,000...
For 1975, $63,000 is requested, of which $50,000 is for
annual recurring painting (the same amount as allowed for
1974), based on painting 35 three-room suites in the
Cannon Building, 32 three-room suites or the equivalent
in the Longworth Building, 42 three-room suites and
cabinets in the Rayburn Building, and miscellaneous
painting in the House Annex. The balance, $13,000, is
requested for 1975 for painting the exterior woodwork of
the windows in the Longworth Building, last painted 4
years ago. For proper preservation it is necessary that
this exterior painting be done every years.
As explained under the item "New positions requested",
under rules set by the House Office Building Commission,
in past years Congressional offices were normally allowed
to be painted once in every 4 years. These rules were
changed by the Commission in February 1973. Under the
new rules, painting of Congressional offices is now
allowed every two years. Instead of requesting that the
annual painting allotment be doubled for 1975 to provide
for the hire of outside painters and painting materials
required for the extra painting, 2 additional painter
positions have been requested to be added to the
regular annual force, at one-half the cost of outside
labor, in the interest of economy and efficient
operation.
Elevator and escalator repairs increased from $21,355 to
$25,855..
This increase is requested to cover the rise in cost of
work performed under this allotment. The last increase
provided under this allotment, other than an $800 increase
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