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Fife lobbyist: continuing resolution strips $800,000 for Taylor Way; city will resubmit for FY26
Summary
Federal continuing resolution left out community project funding, removing roughly $800,000 earmarked for Fife's Taylor Way intersection improvements; city staff say they will resubmit the request for FY26 while prioritizing other projects.
Fife’s federal lobbyist told the City Council on March 18 that a six‑month continuing resolution Congress passed in mid‑March did not include community project funding, removing roughly $800,000 that had been identified for Taylor Way intersection improvements.
Justin LeBlanc, the city’s federal lobbyist, said the continuing resolution (CR) keeps government operations running at last year’s funding levels but omitted the individual congressional project allocations—referred to on the House side as “community project funding” and on the Senate side as “congressionally directed spending.” "The continuing resolution that Congress passed did not contain any of the community project funding... that includes about $800,000 I…
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