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• The Commissioners voted, unanimously, to send a letter to WMATA expressing support for the continued operation of bus transit, particularly lines used by transit-dependent neighbors and residents of 6A and Ward 6.

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Talking Public Safety with the Mayor

ANC 6B REPORT

by Elizabeth O’Gorek

Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC) 6B held its regular public meeting on April 12. Attending were Commissioners Jennifer Samolyk (6B01), Gerald Sroufe (6B02), Brian Ready (6B03), Steve Holtzman (6B05), Corey Holman (6B06), Edward Ryder (6B07), Peter Wright (6B08), Alison Horn (6B09) and Denise Krepp (6B10). Kirsten Oldenburg (6B04) was unable to attend.

Mayor Bowser Talks Public Safety at ANC 6B

Mayor Muriel Bowser appeared at the April 12 meeting to present on the $19.3 billion FY 2023 budget. She touted investments in Ward 6 middle school modernizations, roads and road safety as well as in a ordable housing. The budget allocates $23 million to build permanent supportive housing and $140 million to modernize shelters. Additional funds will go to prevention programs and smaller programs that help residents stay out of the public housing system. Bowser’s o ce has asked landlords

Mayor Muriel Bowser appeared at the April 12 meeti ng of ANC 6B to discuss the FY 2023 budget and public safety investments. Screenshot: Webex

with available units to reach out. “We have people, we have money, and we come with the supportive services,” said Jenny Reid, director of the Of ce of Budget and Performance Management (OBPM). At RFK Campus, the District is investing $60 million to advance a 100,000-square-foot indoor recreational arena, plus $18 million to build bridges connecting the campus to Kingman and Heritage islands. The focus of the mayor’s presentation and many of the ensuing questions and comments was public safety. The budget earmarks $251 million for an annex to the District’s Correctional Treatment Facility (CTF) and includes $25 million to maintain safe, secure and humane conditions for inmates until the CTF annex is completed. The budget also includes $30 million to increase the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) to 4,000 sworn of cers, and funding for violence prevention and opportunity investments.

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Asked if she would have the full support of the DC Council for increasing police funding, Bowser said her o ce had made the case to thaw the police hiring freeze imposed over the last two years. But she pointed to an audit of MPD time use requested by DC Council Chairman Phil Mendelson and Ward 6 Councilmember Charles Allen (D), saying that it distracts o cers from ghting crime.

Bowser also noted that in 2021 the DC Council voted to remove police from schools, with little input from the mayor’s o ce, parents or school leaders. “We opposed it then, we oppose it now and I have sent language to council to put them back in,” Bowser said.

Request for Single Ward 7 ANC West of River

Commissioners unanimously supported a letter asking the DC Council to establish a single, compact Ward 7 ANC west of the river. The letter argues that the boundaries in the map submitted to the DC Council on April 1 by the Ward 7 Redistricting Task Force do not follow the principles of redistricting: to create compact and contiguous ANCs that have geographically sensible boundaries, and to keep communities of interest together. After listing the concerns of the communities currently included in the ANCs reaching west of the river, it notes that a meeting with MPD in the proposed ANC 7A would require representation from the First, Fifth and Sixth police districts. The letter proposes that the submitted boundaries for ANCs 7B, 7E and 7C remain untouched but asks that ANCs 7A and 7F be recon gured, pointing to the Ward 7 Task Force Minority Report as a possible solution.