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PR26-0379 • 2025

Reprogramming Request No. 26-91 Disapproval Emergency Resolution of 2025

Reprogramming Request No. 26-91 Disapproval Emergency Resolution of 2025

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Sponsor
Mendelson
Last action
2025-11-04
Official status
Under Council Review
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The candidate explanation included details about sending a copy of the resolution to the Mayor's office, which was not explicitly mentioned in the official source material but implied by Section 3. This detail has been removed as per rules.

Disapproval of Emergency Spending Change

This emergency resolution disapproves a request by the Mayor to move $5,500,000 from other parts of the District's budget to the Metropolitan Police Department.

What This Bill Does

  • The Council votes to stop the Mayor's plan to change how money is spent within the Public Safety and Justice Cluster.
  • It stops a request made on October 24, 2025, by the Mayor to move $5,500,000 from other parts of the budget to the Metropolitan Police Department.

Who It Names or Affects

  • The District of Columbia government and its departments involved in public safety and justice.
  • The Mayor of Washington, D.C., who requested the budget change.

Terms To Know

Reprogramming Request
A request to move money from one part of a budget to another within the same fiscal year.

Limits and Unknowns

  • The resolution only affects this specific request to move $5,500,000 within the Public Safety and Justice Cluster.
  • It does not change other budget decisions made by the Mayor or Council.

Bill History

  1. 2025-11-04 Council of the District of Columbia LIMS

    Retained by the Council

  2. 2025-11-04 Council of the District of Columbia LIMS

    Legislative Meeting

  3. 2025-11-03 Council of the District of Columbia LIMS

    PR26-0379 Introduced by Chairman Mendelson at Office of the Secretary

Official Summary Text

Reprogramming Request No. 26-91 Disapproval Emergency Resolution of 2025

Current Bill Text

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Chairman Phil Mendelson 2
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A PROPOSED RESOLUTION 7
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IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 11
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To disapprove, on an emergency basis, reprogramming request No. 26-91 of $5,500,000 Local 15
Funds within the Public Safety and Justice Cluster. 16
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this 18
resolution may be cited as the “Reprogramming Request No. 26-91 Disapproval Emergency 19
Resolution of 2025”. 20
Sec. 2. Pursuant to D.C. Official Code § 47–363, on October 24, 2025, the Mayor 21
transmitted a reprogramming request to the Council to reprogram $5,500,000 of Local Funds 22
from the Office of Unified Communications and the Department of Corrections to the 23
Metropolitan Police Department to “address year-end spending pressures.” This reprogramming 24
request is hereby disapproved. 25
Sec. 3. The Secretary of the Council shall transmit a copy of this resolution, upon its 26
adoption, to the Office of the Mayor. 27
Sec. 4. This resolution shall take effect immediately. 28