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PR26-0342 • 2025

No. 26-0070 Reprogramming Request Disapproval Resolution of 2025

No. 26-0070 Reprogramming Request Disapproval Resolution of 2025

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Sponsor
Mendelson
Last action
2025-10-21
Official status
Under Council Review
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Disapproval of Reprogramming Request

This resolution disapproves a reprogramming request for $90 million from various agencies to the Metropolitan Police Department and other entities.

What This Bill Does

  • The Council disapproves a reprogramming request submitted by the Mayor.
  • The request involves moving $90,222,148.73 of local funds from different agencies to the Metropolitan Police Department and other departments.
  • The resolution states that the request does not adequately explain why certain agencies or programs had higher than expected costs.
  • It also notes that there is a significant available balance in Repayment of Loans and Interest (debt service) which was not explained properly.
  • The Council disapproves the reprogramming request based on these issues.

Who It Names or Affects

  • Various agencies including the Metropolitan Police Department, Office of the Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Justice, Homeland Security and Emergency Management, and others.
  • The Mayor's office which submitted the reprogramming request.

Terms To Know

Reprogramming Request
A request to change how funds are used from one purpose or agency to another within a fiscal year.
Local Funds
Money that is managed and spent by the District of Columbia for its own purposes.

Limits and Unknowns

  • The resolution does not specify what will happen next after disapproval.
  • It is unclear if there are any consequences or further actions required from the Mayor's office following this decision.

Bill History

  1. 2025-10-21 Council of the District of Columbia LIMS

    Retained by the Council

  2. 2025-10-17 Council of the District of Columbia LIMS

    Notice of Roundtable Published in the District of Columbia Register

  3. 2025-10-16 Council of the District of Columbia LIMS

    Roundtable on PR26-0342

  4. 2025-10-10 Council of the District of Columbia LIMS

    Notice of Roundtable filed in the Office of Secretary by Committee of the Whole

  5. 2025-10-08 Council of the District of Columbia LIMS

    PR26-0342 Introduced by Chairman Mendelson at Office of the Secretary

Official Summary Text

No. 26-0070 Reprogramming Request Disapproval Resolution of 2025

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LE Dat —Chairman PhilMendelson
A PROPOSED RESOLUTION
INTHE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICTOF COLUMBIA.
To disapprovereprogramming requestNo. 26-0070 of $90,222,148.73of FY 2025 Local Funds
fromvariousagenciestotheMetropolitanPoliceDepartment,OfficeoftheDeputy
MayorforPublicandSafetyJustice,HomelandSecurityandEmergencyManagement,
Department of PublicWorks, Department of GeneralServices,DistrictDepartment of
Transportation,DepartmentofEnergyandEnvironment,DepartmentonDisability
Services,Department of BehavioralHealth,Settlementsand Judgement Fund, and the
WashingtonMetropolitanAreaTransitAuthority.
RESOLVED, BY COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That thisresolution
maybecitedasthe“No.26-0070ReprogrammingRequestDisapprovalResolutionof2025”.
Sec.2.(a)Pursuanttosection47-363oftheDistrictofColumbiaOfficialCode,the
MayortransmittedtotheCouncilreprogrammingrequestNo.26-0070intheamountof
$90,222,148.73inFY 2025LocalFundsfromvariousagenciestotheMetropolitanPolice
Department,OfficeoftheDeputyMayorforPublicandSafetyJustice,HomelandSecurityand
EmergencyManagement,DepartmentofPublicWorks,DepartmentofGeneralServices,District
DepartmentofTransportation,DepartmentofEnergyandEnvironment,Departmenton
DisabilityServices,Department of BehavioralHealth,Settlementsand Judgement Fund, and the
WashingtonMetropolitanAreaTransitAuthority.
(b)Thereprogrammingrequestdoesnotadequatelyexplainwhycertainagenciesor
programsincurred“higherthananticipatedcosts.”Inaddition,thisreprogrammingdoesnot
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adequatelyexplainwhyRepaymentofLoansandInterest(debtservice)hasanavailablebalance
ofatleast$84.4million.Further,wherethereisdeficiencyspendingthatcouldhavebeen
avoided,reprogrammingshouldnotbeusedtocircumventtheintentbehindtheDistrictand
federalanti-deficiencyacts
(©)TheCouncildisapprovesthe$90,222,148.73reprogrammingrequest.
Sec.3.TheSecretaryoftheCounciloftheDistrictofColumbiashalltransmitacopyof
thisresolution,uponitsadoption,totheMayor.
Sec.4. Thisresolutionshalltakeeffectimmediately.