D.C Council to vote on housing authority overhaul in packed meeting
Public housing tenants, legal advocates and D.C. Council members scrambled Monday to keep up with a rapidly changing proposal by Mayor Muriel E. Bowser to replace the city’s housing authority board, a plan that she introduced late last week and that is scheduled for a vote by the council on Tuesday.The mayor’s proposal comes two months after federal findings of mismanagement at the D.C. Housing Authority, which Bowser says can best be fixed by a new board.
Korber, advocates and others concerned about DCHA say they agreed that the agency needs major changes — but that they should be undertaken only after debate and input from stakeholders and experts. They said they were concerned that public housing tenants, voucher recipients, and representatives of labor and legal aid groups on the board were being removed under the proposal.
“Not that I think that’s wonderful, I think [a smaller board] would be more helpful here, but there are discussions between members to ensure that everyone can be supportive of this legislation,” Mendelson said of the change. As an emergency bill, it will require nine votes to pass, though other lawmakers have hinted they may also seek further changes ahead of Tuesday’s vote.
But even as the trio announced the plan, it was evolving: The first version distributed to council members Thursday allowed for the deputy mayor for planning and economic development — Bowser’s chief of staff John Falcicchio — to have a seat on the reconstituted board. Hours later, his spot on the proposed board was gone. Monday’s revisions included the restoration of a current board requirement, absent in the mayor’s initial proposal, that the board’s meetings allow for public comment.
The council on Tuesday will also vote on a bill that would alter the way D.C. public schools are funded and make sure campuses get at least as much money as they did the previous year. Mendelson said the measure would bring more stability to schools, which are susceptible each year to budget cuts. The school system’s chancellor, Lewis D. Ferebee, however, has called the legislation “problematic” and urged lawmakers to vote against it.
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