44% HIKE IN SUPPLIES BEING SOUGHT IN DISTRICT.(Local)

Byline: Richard Wexler Staff writer

If every school principal and department head in the Albany City School District got all the supplies and equipment requested for the 1992-93 school year, the budget for those expenses would increase by 44 percent, according to school district figures.

Requests from schools and departments totaled $3,456,326, an increase of more than $1 million from the current school year, according to the data, discussed at a meeting of the district's Citizens Budget Advisory Committee at Albany High School Tuesday night.

The budget requests cover everything from computers to paper clips, but they do not include the district's …