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Bellevue reviews 2025 state session outcomes and adopts 2025–26 federal agenda
Summary
City staff summarized legislative results in Olympia—including tax increment financing authority for the Grand Connection and limited capital grant support—and the council adopted an updated federal agenda and instructed staff to pursue earmarks and engagement with the delegation.
Bellevue city staff gave the City Council a session‑end review of the 2025 Washington state legislative session on May 13 and asked the council to adopt the city’s 2025–26 federal legislative agenda ahead of a planned June delegation trip to Washington, D.C. Council voted to adopt the federal agenda later in the meeting.
Intergovernmental staff summarized key state outcomes: despite a tight state budget environment the legislature provided targeted support for several Bellevue priorities. The session produced a package of housing‑and‑land‑use bills of statewide significance and included authority that Bellevue expects to use for financing the Grand Connection; staff reported a successful change to permit additional tax‑increment financing authority of $500 million of…
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