PBH Budget Increases, Summer Costs Mount

Phillips Brooks House's proposed budget for 1967-68 is well over the $100,000 mark for the first time in the organization's history.

The $127,646 budget is $28,000 more than last year's. A large part of the increase would finance summer projects for four of PBH's large local programs.

Last summer, only PBH's staff at the Roosevelt Towers housing project and its Mental Hospitals program continued through the summer. This summer, if PBH can raise the money for the proposed budget, the Challenge tutorial program and 007 (Opportunity for Organization in poverty Area 7) will have projects too.

The new budget would allow PBH to hire more part-time professional consultants, who are needed to help in its increasingly close work with neighborhood families and in its mental hospital programs.

Next year, if the Corporation approves the request of Dean Ford, PBH will receive for the first time a $20,000 grant from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

But this subsidy can only go towards PBH's fixed expenses -- the basic House operations and the salaries of part-time consultants in the winter and not towards the cost of expanding its programs.

Fixed Expenses

In fact, PBH will have to raise money just to meet its fixed expenses for next year. Its predictable income, even when bolstered by the subsidy, falls $5000 short of meeting them.

To run the programs it has budgeted, PBH still needs another $35,000 on top of its predictable income, subsidy, and individual committee efforts.

PBH's two outside projects, Volunteer Teachers for Africa and the American Indian Project, have budgets totaling $33,496. Unlike the local summer and winter committees, the members of the outside projects must raise all their own money. So far they have collected less than half of it.

Although PBH's other programs are in much better shape, officials are still greatly worried about them.

"We are by no means in a sound financial state," treasurer Stephen R. Kroll '68 said yesterday.

This year, for the first time, PBH was not able to meet its full budget, and several thousand dollars of expenses had to be cut.

The new PBH executive committee is now studying the possibility of establishing three projects next fall, according to President Benjamin A. Barnes '68. One committee would organize Puerto Ricans in Boston's South End. Another committee may be working in Jefferson Park, a housing project in North Cambridge. A third committee may teach either in the Cambridge Friends School or in Somerville -- a new area for PBH.

"New trends next year will be towards political actions," said Barnes.

Besides Barnes and Kroll, other members of the new executive committee are William Schaeffer '68, vice-president and director of intercollegiate affairs; Barbara Sard '68, director of new programs; and Aida Chang '68, secretary. Andrew M. Gilman '68, and Donald M. Berwick '68 will evaluate and coordinate the semi-autonomous committees of PBH--a function which two vice-presidents performed last year