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Council reviews draft FY27 federal priorities: housing, transportation, workforce, earmarks
Summary
County staff presented the draft FY27 federal priorities letter and list of earmark requests covering housing modernization, federal workforce protections for HHS institutions, immigration reform language, transportation funding (including a BUILD application for Lake Forest and WMATA indexing), health-and-human-services concerns and a list of earmark projects; council asked for edits, more education items, and asked staff to finalize the draft for next week's consent agenda.
Staff from the Office of Intergovernmental Relations reviewed the county's draft FY27 federal priorities letter and the FY27 earmark request list. The memo covers housing (calling for modernization of federal programs and local flexibility), federal workforce protections for HHS institutions in the county, immigration (a request that Congress move toward comprehensive reform), transportation priorities (requests for bus infrastructure, zero-emission vehicle funding, support for the Lake Forest BUILD application and WMATA funding indexed for inflation), health-and-human-services concerns (HUD Continuum of Care funding uncertainty and student-loan eligibility for health-care careers), and a set of earmark project requests the county plans to submit.
Council members asked staff to include stronger language urging Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform, to incorporate recent council resolutions supporting regional transportation commitments, and to expand the education section to highlight losses in federal grants and needs such as Title I and IDEA funding and support for higher-education workforce pipelines. Staff said the draft should remain internal until edits are complete and agreed to circulate a final draft so the council can vote on the consent agenda next week.
Council requested a bill-numbered list of state and federal measures mentioned in the briefing so members can act quickly if committee or delegation opportunities arise.
