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DC Public Works Committee approves FY26 budget report, flags $9.3M stormwater transfer
Summary
The Council’s Committee on Public Works and Operations on June 24 approved its FY26 budget report and Budget Support Act recommendations, funding permanent DPW positions, public restrooms and expanded composting while warning a $9.3 million stormwater-fund transfer for street sweeping likely must be reversed.
Councilmember Brianne Nadeau, chair of the Committee on Public Works and Operations, moved and the committee approved its report and recommendations on the District’s proposed fiscal year 2026 budget and related Budget Support Act subtitles during an additional meeting on June 24 at the John A. Wilson Building.
The committee report redirects one-time proposals in the mayor’s budget into longer-term investments for the Department of Public Works (DPW), funds more public restrooms and composting access, restores some human-services funding, and recommends narrowing or removing several mayoral Budget Support Act subtitles while approving a limited set of the mayor’s proposed changes.
The report matters because it shapes how DPW and other agencies will staff and operate daily services residents rely on, and it raises a potential legal and funding risk connected to the mayor’s proposed use of a Stormwater Permit Review Fund allocation. Nadeau said the committee converted a mayoral proposal advertised as a one-year continuation of term positions into permanent staff to “fund higher salaries and permanent positions, even for entry level jobs,” and added 20 corridor-cleaning…
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