If the District of Columbia chief financial officer Natwar M. Ghandi agrees with officials of the District’s summer jobs program, that the program finished six million dollars under budget. Then the D.C. summer jobs program, created by Marion Barry, is continuing to fulfill its intended purpose: to create summer jobs for low-income kids while allowing them to earn money over the summer. It appears that the District’s summer program, run by the Department of Employment Services spent only $10.8 million of its $16.8 million budget. It seems of the 14,000 participants between the ages of 14 to 21, only just over 11,000 young people completed the program working in businesses and for the district government. Officials may have over-represented the amount left unspent, but even if a fraction of that amount was left unused, and every penny was accounted for, it would be a marked difference from the days of the previous mayor Marion Barry whose government was known for its alleged corruption. D.C. Council member Michael A. Brown, chairman of the oversight committee, suggested that the surplus, given the problems faced by the program in the past, would be a major achievement for a program that had run as much as $30 million over budget.
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