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Ward 6 Update: RFK Update, Budget Delay, & Urgency on Traffic Safety

Normally, April is a month when the Council would be in the thick of the budget process, with lengthy hearings and important debates about priorities and tradeoffs. But we haven't received the proposed budget from the Mayor yet, largely because Congress's unprecedented and reckless freezing of more than $1 billion in our local budget has created significant chaos and uncertainty.

The future Rumsey pool needs a second story.

Ward 6 Update: Fair Ticket Prices, Safer Roadways + New Businesses

Plus: Importance of Open Government

The bill caps resale prices on live performance tickets and ends speculative ticketing in which resellers are selling tickets they do not yet have in their possession.

Today, the DC Council passed an emergency bill making substantial changes to how the District’s Open Meetings Act (OMA) applies to the Council.

Ward 6 Update: Budget & Federal Updates, Driverless Cars + Throwing Shade (on the Playground)

Credit for working parents, adults, is a quiet success story, but 57% of eligible paper filers miss out

Ward 6 Update: Congress, Spring Clean + Office Hours
Plus, the Rumsey Pool Meeting

Congress Cuts $1.1 Billion in Local Revenue, Fate of DC Local Tax Dollars Sent Back to the US House of Representatives

The following statement is from DC Councilmember Charles Allen (Ward 6) following the US Senate’s vote to prevent a government shutdown. The Senate did not amend the House’s continuing resolution to avoid cuts to the District’s budget, but it did pass separate legislation doing so, sending Senator Collins’ bill reversing the decision to cut $1.1 billion in local money back to the House. If the bill is not passed, Congress’s restrictions on how local tax dollars are spent could cut funding for schools by at least $345 million, police and fire by $133 million, DC Water by $50 million, WMATA by $210 million, and human services by $178 million.

Congress Poised to Block $1 Billion in Local DC Spending