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Richland council unanimously authorizes congressional‑directed spending submittals for police, water and transportation projects
Summary
After a presentation from Director of Development Services Mike Ristello, the Richland City Council unanimously approved three resolutions authorizing fiscal‑year 2027 congressional‑directed spending (CDS) submittals to Rep. Dan Newhouse and Senators Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray, naming candidate projects including a police real‑time information center and wastewater digester.
Mike Ristello, Richland’s director of development services, briefed the council on congressional‑directed spending — known as CDS or earmarks — and the city’s candidate requests before the council voted.
Ristello said CDS requests must name projects and a location and explained that eligible accounts change year to year across nine appropriations bills. He described projects the city has proposed and the reasoning for putting each in particular federal appropriations accounts. “Depending on the given year and then what house you’re in, some accounts are remarkable in the House, other ones are just in the Senate,” he said.
Ristello listed candidate project amounts the…
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