PR26-0415 • 2025

Modification Nos. M0014 and M0015 to Contract No. CW100401 with Wheeler Creek Estates Community Development Corporation Approval and Payment Authorization Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2025

Housing

Enacted

This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor: at the request of the Mayor
Last action: 2025-12-12
Official status: Approved
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not explicitly mention allowing payment authorization, only that Council approval is necessary to allow continuation of vital services without which Wheeler Creek Estates Community Development Corporation cannot be paid for goods and services provided in excess of $1 million.

Emergency Resolution for Contract Modifications

This resolution allows the District of Columbia to approve modifications M0014 and M0015 to an existing contract with Wheeler Creek Estates Community Development Corporation, increasing its not-to-exceed amount from $530,066.04 to $1,066,327.04 for case management services under the Permanent Supportive Housing III program.

What This Bill Does

Approves Modification Nos. M0014 and M0015 to Contract No. CW100401 with Wheeler Creek Estates Community Development Corporation.
Increases the total not-to-exceed amount of the contract from $530,066.04 to $1,066,327.04 for services provided under the Permanent Supportive Housing III program case management.
Requires Council approval because the modifications will increase the value of the contract over $1 million during a 12-month period.

Who It Names or Affects

The District of Columbia government, specifically the Office of Contracting and Procurement on behalf of the Department of Human Services.
Wheeler Creek Estates Community Development Corporation, which provides case management services for the Permanent Supportive Housing III program.

Terms To Know

Permanent Supportive Housing III: A program that offers long-term housing and support services to individuals in need.
Not-to-exceed amount: The maximum amount of money a contract can cost before additional approval is needed.

Limits and Unknowns

This resolution only applies to the specific modifications and payments for Contract No. CW100401.
It does not provide details about other contracts or services provided by Wheeler Creek Estates Community Development Corporation.

Bill History

2025-12-12 Council of the District of Columbia LIMS
Resolution R26-0268, Effective from Dec 02, 2025 Published in DC Register Vol 72 and Page 013896
2025-12-02 Council of the District of Columbia LIMS
Retained by the Council with comments from the Committee on Human Services
2025-12-02 Council of the District of Columbia LIMS
Legislative Meeting
2025-12-02 Council of the District of Columbia LIMS
Approved with Resolution Number R26-0268
2025-11-24 Council of the District of Columbia LIMS
PR26-0415 Introduced by Chairman Mendelson at Office of the Secretary

Official Summary Text

Modification Nos. M0014 and M0015 to Contract No. CW100401 with Wheeler Creek Estates Community Development Corporation Approval and Payment Authorization Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2025

Current Bill Text

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ENROLLED ORIGINAL

A RESOLUTION

26-268

IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

December 2, 2025

To declare the existence of an emergency with respect to the need to approve Modification Nos.
M0014 and M0015 to Contract No. CW100401 with Wheeler Creek Estates Community
Development Corporation, and to authorize payment for the goods and services received
and to be received under the contract.

RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this
resolution may be cited as the “Modification Nos. M0014 and M0015 to Contract No.
CW100401 with Wheeler Creek Estates Community Development Corporation Approval and
Payment Authorization Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2025”.

Sec. 2. (a) There exists an immediate need to approve Modification Nos. M0014 and
M0015 to Contract No. CW100401 with Wheeler Creek Estates Community Development
Corporation, and to authorize payment for the goods and services received and to be received
under the contract.
(b) On July 1, 2025, by Modification No. M0014, the Office of Contracting and
Procurement, on behalf of the Department of Human Services, exercised a partial option of
option year 3 of the contract, for the period of July 1, 2025, through December 31, 2025, with
Wheeler Creek Estates Community Development Corporation to provide Permanent Supportive
Housing III program case management services in the not-to-exceed amount of $530,066.04.
(c) Proposed Modification No. M0015 will exercise the remainder of option year 3 and
increase the not-to-exceed amount by $536,261, to a total not-to-exceed amount of
$1,066,327.04.
(d) Under section 451(b)(1) of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, approved
December 24, 1973 (87 Stat. 803; D.C. Official Code § 1-204.51(b)(1)), Council approval is
necessary because the modifications will increase the value of the contract to more than $1
million during a 12-month period.
(e) Council approval is necessary to allow the continuation of these vital services.
Without this approval, Wheeler Creek Estates Community Development Corporation cannot be
paid for goods and services provided in excess of $1 million for the period from July 1, 2025,
through June 30, 2026.

ENROLLED ORIGINAL

Sec. 3. The Council of the District of Columbia determines that the circumstances
enumerated in section 2 constitute emergency circumstances making it necessary that the
Modification Nos. M0014 and M0015 to Contract No. CW100401 with Wheeler Creek Estates
Community Development Corporation Approval and Payment Authorization Emergency Act of
2025 be adopted after a single reading.

Sec. 4. This resolution shall take effect immediately.