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    Susie Cambria, MSW

    Public Policy Consulting

    Budget Highlights from members of the City Council~


    (6/4/09)

    CM Jack Evans (Ward 2)


    This week the Council finished deliberations on the FY 2010 budget, in what was a
    particularly challenging year as the Mayor and Council faced down a $770+ million revenue
    shortfall. We voted earlier this month on the “numbers” of the budget, and this week
    finalized the changes in the law necessary to implement that budget. Our work was made
    somewhat easier by the federal “American Reinvestment and Recovery Act”, aka, the
    “stimulus money”. Since the introduction of the budget in March and through our votes this
    month the Council has addressed a number of problems in the budget, such as eliminating
    the controversial “streetlight maintenance fee”, and resolved a dispute with the school
    system over $27 million in funding. I am very glad the Council and Chancellor Rhee came
    together to address that.

    I was also glad to work with the Mayor and my colleagues to help identify funding for a
    variety of important projects, among others as well:
    • $1,000,000 each for the NIF target areas in Shaw and Logan Circle
    • $250,000 to Bread for the City to support their work in Shaw
    • $250,000 to Friends of Kennedy Recreation Center
    • $500,000 to the DC LGBT Center for a capital facility campaign
    • $250,000 for the Earned Income Tax Credit outreach campaign
    • $150,000 for Shaw Main Streets
    • $75,000 for Historic Dupont Main Streets
    • $100,000 for the Mid-City Business Association
    • $500,000 for streetscape work on lower Connecticut Avenue
    • $250,000 for the Duke Ellington Jazz Festival
    • $350,000 for Rachel’s Women’s Center for capital improvements
    • $1,000,000 for capital projects at the Phillips Collection
    • $325,000 for the Textile Museum for capital improvements
    • $250,000 for the DC Jewish Community Center
    • $150,000 for Language ETC’s immigrant education and literacy efforts
    • $250,000 for the Capital Breast Care Center and their efforts with low-income
    women
    • $25,000 to the Dupont Circle Village for their work with seniors

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    CM Jim Graham (Ward 1)
    Now that the FY10 budget has Council approval, I am pleased to report on my citywide and
    Ward One specific achievements as chairman of the Committee on Public Works and
    Transportation.

    I authored:
    • Elimination of the proposed “streetlight user fee” - $12 million
    • Improvement of dangerous roads and intersections including on 16th Street
    between Columbia Road and Colorado Avenue - $4.5 million
    • Affordable housing programs that help low-income families. (Low income rent
    supplement, TANF, HPAP and Housing First) - $5 million
    • Pre-kindergarten programs - $4 million
    • Restoration of 40 DPW jobs for ex-offenders and creation of 10 new ones.
    Those jobs are full-time with benefits. - $2.5 million
    • Restoration of a proposed cut in school crossing guards - $1.2 million
    • Green Teams cleaning Georgia Avenue, 14th Street, and U Street - $800,000
    • Citywide Coordinating Council on Youth Violence Prevention to continue
    working with MPD and DYRS on gang intervention strategies - $1 million
    • Restoration of tax standard deductions - $2.9 million
    • Restoration of cuts in the Office of Aging - $800,000
    • Full funding of police at late night bar closing times - $400,000
    • New taxi inspectors for illegal out-of-state cabs - $260,000

    CM Muriel Bowser (Ward 4)


    Other legislative session matters:
    • The Council passed the FY2010 budget, which will include many initiatives
    that will help to secure the District’s economic vitality and the betterment of
    our residents.

    ~The information included in this 1) are direct quotes from the emails sent to the
    community and 2) contains no research. I am merely reporting what is publicly available.
    As other Council members share their lists, I will update this document.

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