Almond Acts To Put Brake On Recession
1 RICHMOND. April 10 IIP) iGov. J. Lindsay Almond announced today an anti-rcces-i sion program to hurry up tbel spending of some $15 million in stale construction money and get it into the economy as soon as possible,</br></br>1 RICHMOND. April 10 IIP) iGov. J. Lindsay Almond announced today an anti-rcces-i sion program to hurry up tbel spending of some $15 million in stale construction money and get it into the economy as soon as possible, i.	Almond said the project would" staiÛªl immediate planning for construction projects approved by the 1958.General Assemblyand eliable actual work to,Jjcgiii oil many within three4 months.	Ûª	j</br></br>It would ÛÏserve to make jobs;-available fai jan: earlier date.Ûª-Ûª Almond told newsmen at; his press conference. Û÷Û÷The funds will; find1 their wav into proved by the legislature will become available for use on July 1,. the beginning of the fiscal year. Almond said his plan was to allow state agencies to begin drawing up plans for their construction projects immediately. The actual work would begin that much sooner because of the speedup, and many of the projects could actually go under! construction on .July 1, lie said.</br></br>The agencies may use a Sum of $300,000 now,available in the current budget to slant dicir planning, Almond said, and lalcr repay the fund when the appropriations become available.</br></br>L, M. Kiilm, special assistant to I be Governor for capital outlays, said specific authority to go ahead with planning a project has been given only one agency so far, but many others would be considered and lie indicated they, loo would bzc given a green light.