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| No surplus boon for Ward 6 |
VOICE writes, "No surplus boon for Ward 6
BY AMY DOOLITTLE
City officials said they've pulled in $100 million more in tax revenue than expected this year and Mayor Adrian Fenty is set to disperse the dollars across Ward 6 and the city.
The mayor plans to split the funds between road and infrastructure projects, continued school modernization, youth job and ex-offender programs all things Ward 6 could use more of, said Charles Allen, a spokesman for Councilman Tommy Wells."
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But Allen said it's too early in the disbursement process to know exactly where, and when, the money will hit.
It's too preliminary to know, he said. The funding that would go into that pothole and street repair and alley repair, which is needed. I don't know that at this stage we can say its going to be x dollars to Ward 6 or x dollars to Ward 5.
But one thing is sure: none of the surprise money will help pay for the ward's biggest project rebuilding Eastern Market, officials with the mayor's office said.
That project, they said, has been completely funded through the new 2008 budget or through other extra tax money made available earlier this year. All told, Eastern Market is set to receive about $6.5 million to be shared with the Georgetown library, which was also damaged in a fire April 30, plus $25 million in special funding.
Meanwhile, Fenty and D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton are waiting for Congress to give the final OK to the city's $9.7 billion fiscal year 2008 budget. That legislation is waiting for action in the Senate as part of a larger federal government spending bill.
Norton's office said the Senate is unlikely to pass the legislation before the start of the new fiscal year on Oct 1. To avoid a D.C. government shutdown, they said, they will likely tack the measure onto other, possibly unrelated, legislation sometime after the start of the fiscal year.
But no new budget does not mean the city comes to a grinding halt, said officials with the mayor's office. Until the spending bill is passed, it will continue to operate under old spending levels, they said.
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Posted on Sep 12, 2007 21:34pm.
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