The Fireside Chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt by Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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(4) Funds allotted for each project should be actually and promptly spent and not held over until later years. (5) In all cases projects must be of a character to give employment to those on the relief rolls. (6) Projects will be allocated to localities or relief areas in relation to the number of workers on relief rolls in those areas. I next want to make it clear exactly how we shall direct the work. (1) I have set up a Division of Applications and Information to which all proposals for the expenditure of money must go for preliminary study and consideration. (2) After the Division of Applications and Information has sifted those projects, they will be sent to an Allotment Division composed of representatives of the more important governmental agencies charged with carrying on work relief projects. The group will also include representatives of cities, and of labor, farming, banking and industry. This Allotment Division will consider all of the recommendations submitted to it and such projects as they approve will be next submitted to the President who under the Act is required to make final allocations. (3) The next step will be to notify the proper government agency in whose field the project falls, and also to notify another agency which I am creating--a Progress Division. This Division will have the duty of coordinating the purchases of materials and supplies |
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