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At 11:30 a.m., the Fair Budget Coalition and Save Our Safety Net-DC will be holding a rally at the Wilson Building to protest Fenty and Co's proposed cuts to core social-service agencies. After the demonstration, both organizations have planned visits to the D.C. Council. The Fair Budget Coalition boasts a huge roster of committed members [...]

Updated: 5 p.m.
The proposed budget cuts to D.C.'s Child and Family Services Agency do not just include the laying off of 54 employees and the cutting of the Rapid Housing Program. It became quite clear at yesterday's D.C. Council hearing that more cuts have been proposed to the troubled agency.
Judith Sandalow, executive director of the [...]

The District is hard up for Gs
And fixing that won't be a breeze
That time you drove fast?
The bus that you passed?
Get ready to pay more in fees
The budget, so often long-winded
And partly it's thanks to what Jim did
At first, it hurt tenants
But F. paid his penance:
The draft was quite quickly rescinded
Tuition growth soon will be [...]

With details still scarce, Mayor Adrian M. Fenty's budget proposal holds sacred education and public safety, while finding sundry service cuts and fee hikes to close an approximately $550 million budget gap.
The budget proposal eliminates 385 full-time equivalent positions; a Fenty official estimated than one-half of those positions are already empty, the other half will [...]

Stand by for budget tweets from Loose Lips: Council briefing set to begin at 9:45
Fenty, Gandhi, and Gray are all here. Fenty and Gray shared a quick hug. Now small talk.
MPD 'fully funded' for 4069 cops
'The budget today will be changed by the council,' says Fenty. Quips Gray, 'not necessarily'
$11B in total spending, but 2.7 [...]

The Center for Nonprofit Advancement, a local entity, is encouraging residents/nonprofits to submit a form letter to Mayor Adrian Fenty urging him to shore up the budget shortfall and help protect the city's safety net for its neediest residents:
"This week, D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty will be finalizing plans to address the District’s new $340 million [...]

As mentioned by LL in an exhaustive budget rundown, At-Large Councilmember Phil Mendelson kept funding in the city budget for a program that helps the poor pay for attorneys. Today, Bread for the City cheered the news on its blog ("Beyond Bread"):
"Yesterday, the DC Council Judiciary Committee voted unanimously to maintain funding for civil legal [...]

Last spring, Mayor Adrian M. Fenty and the D.C. Council took heat from LL and others for their earmarks in the yearly budget. In his initial FY09 budget proposal, Fenty included $27 million in noncompetitive grants, which the council later upped to $70 million. Things got to the point that Council Chairman Vincent C. Gray [...]

Buried in budget legislation [PDF, p.121] submitted today to the D.C. Council are a number of changes to the District's property-tax appeals process.
The Board of Real Property Assessment Appeals (BRPAA—pronounced "BURP-uh") has had its share of trouble over the years. The board came in for a harsh review last fall from D.C. Auditor Deborah K. [...]

The FY2010 budget proposal submitted by Mayor Adrian M. Fenty on Friday contained a number of fee hikes. Many of those are intended to fall on businesses, but there was one that will fall broadly on District residents: A "Street Light User Fee," intended to "cover the costs associated with the operation and maintenance of [...]

The D.C. Council's right there, too!
It's busy times in the office of council budget director Eric Goulet, who has the requisite amount of paperwork in his office—tons!—to prove he's worthy of his title. It's a messy office, but an organized messy. "I'll show you my folders," he exclaims.
And indeed he does. There's the folder [...]

Late February at the John A. Wilson Building is a tough time to be a spreadsheet. That's because City Administrator Dan Tangherlini and his budget people are crunching the living daylights out of the District's numbers from early in the morning till late at night, trying to get a document that'll pass muster at the [...]

Across the country, states, counties, and municipalities have been scrambling to come up with plans for sucking up the billions lawmakers have promised in stimulus dollars.
Make that states, counties, municipalities, and a District.
Earlier this month, Mayor Adrian M. Fenty outlined in a letter [PDF] to Eleanor Holmes Norton, the District's delegate to Congress, his list [...]