After a delayed start to the Fiscal Year 2026 budget season, the D.C. Council will conduct its first vote on the Fiscal Year 2026 budget on July 14.
One day later, on July 15, Ward 8 residents, if they haven’t done so already, will cast their vote in a special election triggered by Trayon White’s expulsion from the council.
As these developments unfold, the regular business of the council continues.
During its most recent legislative meeting, the council approved D.C. Councilmember Brooke Pinto’s (D-Ward 2) Peace D.C. and residential tranquility legislation on its second reading— but not without discussion about policing, mass incarceration, and what some council members call the need for concrete data about pretrial detention.
On the second reading, the council also approved legislation banning in-school smartphone use and mandating training for board members at D.C. public charter schools.
Amid concerns about the swathes of youth taking over nighttime spots, the council also approved emergency legislation that Pinto and D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) advanced to allow mayoral authorization of an emergency juvenile curfew and permit the Metropolitan Police Department’s (MPD) designation of juvenile curfew zones.
Council members advanced this bill after discussion about, and unanimous approval of, an amendment that Councilmembers Pinto and Zachary Parker (D-Ward 5) introduced to reduce likely harms against young people.
As is the case every year, the council also approved the federal portion of its budget that concerns, among other things, funding for DCTAG, Court Services & Offender Supervision Agency, early childhood educator funding, D.C. Water, and local tax revenue accrued from The Smithsonian Institution.
In the days leading up to the council’s July 1 legislative meeting, each council committee recommended changes to Bowser’s Fiscal Year 2026 budget proposal and Budget Support Act, as it relates to the agencies under their purview. This edition of The Collins Council Report includes details about those deliberations and what’s to come as D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (D) mulls over how, or whether, to restore services and programming.
But first, a tidbit about what Ward 8 residents, and a couple council members, considered an attempt to tip the scale in the Ward 8 D.C. Council special election.
D.C. Council Avoids a Controversial Rule Change
On July 1, the council approved Council Period 26 Recess Rules Amendment Resolution of 2025, which D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (D) initially introduced to, among other things, allow for the expulsion of a previously expelled council member based on the outcome of a previous ad hoc proceeding.
By the time of the vote however, the resolution no longer included the aforementioned provision.
After engagement with council colleagues, Mendelson altered the legislation so that, upon an expelled council member’s return to office, an ad hoc committee could spend money on another investigation. Per the approved resolution, the committee would be required to introduce a resolution for that council member’s removal.
On the dais, Mendelson denied that he attempted to stop former D.C. council member Trayon White’s return to the John A. Wilson Building, just a few months after the council expelled him.
“First of all, it was never the intent to make any suggestions, have any influence with regard to the upcoming election that’s underway,” Mendelson told his council colleagues. “And it’s unfortunate that’s where the attention was.”
One day prior, while speaking to reporters, Mendelson explained his rationale in making that particular rule change.
“When we went through the process with regard to former council member White, we saw that there were some ways that the council rules were cumbersome or time-consuming, and we generally amend the council rules only before summer recess,” Mendelson said. “We don’t amend…the council’s rules very often. We pretty much write them in January at the start of the council period, and then at the start of each council recess, so this is the opportunity to affect those improvements.”
Other provisions in the Council Period 26 Recess Rules Amendment Resolution of 2025
: authorize the modification of a Fiscal Year 2025 grant funds budget for the University of the District of Columbia; allow for a Committee of the Whole hearing during summer recess in satisfaction of a public hearing requirement for permanent legislation; and to clarify that the council can conduct legislative meetings during recess.
Upon hearing about the resolution, as it was originally introduced, Ward 8 residents took to social media and expressed a variety of thoughts.
While some people welcomed the resolution, others thought the council could make better use of its time during budget season. Ward 8 resident and organizer Nee Nee Taylor, responding to this reporter’s Instagram post about the resolution, called on the D.C. Council to strike down the resolution, likening it to Republican infringement on the local affairs.
White, who’s currently facing a federal bribery charge, is running against Advisory Neighborhood Commission Chair Salim Adofo (8C), Mike Austin, and Sheila Bunn to reclaim his old seat. Since announcing his candidacy on the last day of Ramadan, White has only participated in two candidate forums. Though he’s provided comments for The Informer about his candidacy and absence from most candidate forums, the former council member hasn’t responded to requests for a full interview.
Since White’s expulsion, Ward 8 residents have leaned on Mendelson and At large D.C. Councilmembers Robert White (D), Anita Bonds (D), Christina Henderson (I) and Kenyan McDuffie (I) for support and the advancement of their budget goals. Meanwhile, on the campaign trail, Ward 8 residents— particularly those canvassing for Adofo, Austin and Bunn— said they’re ready for new council representation who can take Ward 8 to the next level while avoiding pitfalls similar to what started former Ward 8 council member White’s legal problems.
Such an outlook doesn’t seem to faze at least one of the former council member’s acolytes. Regina Pixley, a Ward 8 civic leader and Democratic Party committeewoman, told The Informer that White is still well received in the streets of Ward 8.
“People still love the council member, former council member, whatever you all want to say,” Pixley told The Informer on June 21, after a special election candidate forum and straw poll that the Ward 8 Democrats hosted. “He’s going to always be my council member. People still love him.”
Pixley, one of several people who’s supported White during legal and council ad-hoc committee proceedings brought on by his federal bribery charge, told The Informer that the council interrupted a process that would be resolved in early 2026, when the former council member is scheduled to stand trial.
“People miss his leadership. They miss his presence,” Pixley told The Informer. “And he’s still out in the community doing things, calling to the need[s] of people. But unfortunately, the ward is at a standstill because they robbed us of our representation.”
RFK Campus Legislation to Stand Alone; Mendelson to Mull How, or If, to Restore Funding for Various Programs
During the latter part of June, council committees marked up budget proposals related to the agencies under their purview.
This process culminated weeks of committee hearings — more than 40, according to D.C. Council Chair Phil Mendelson (D) — about various budgetary and legislative concerns, including: RFK campus development; the tipped minimum wage’ D.C.’s sanctuary city status and TOPA, also known as the Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act.
A committee print unanimously approved by the D.C. Council’s Committee on Executive Administration and Labor maintained D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s proposed revocation of Initiative 82. The council’s Committee on Housing also approved a committee print removing Bowser’s RENTAL Act, which will stand alone as its own bill, as originally had been the case.
Mendelson also confirmed the council will most likely approve a version of the Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Support Act that doesn’t revoke D.C.’s sanctuary city status.
On the afternoon of June 25, the council’s Committee of the Whole unanimously approved a Fiscal Year 2026 budget markup that also eliminated portions of the the Budget Support Act solidifying an official name change for Black Lives Matter Plaza and the Washington Commanders’ return to RFK campus. Despite Bowser’s insistence on a July 15 deadline for the Commanders deal, the council will hash out the specifics of that deal in a standalone bill, although it’s not quite clear whether the legislation will be approved before August recess.
D.C. Councilmember Wendell Felder (D-Ward 7), responding to the change, said his constituents could wait no longer for a finalized stadium deal.
“For Ward 7, this is not just a development project. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to secure a real investment, create jobs, and finally bring the neighborhood-serving amenities that Ward 7 neighbors truly deserve,” Felder said on the dais on June 25. “Since the deal was first announced, my team and I have worked tirelessly to ensure that Ward 7 residents have a voice at the table. We’ve engaged thousands of residents through town halls, listening sessions, surveys, fireside chats, and community meetings.”
Other notable elements of the Committee of the Whole’s committee print include what council members described as the Executive Office of the Mayor’s increasing fidelity to Schools First in Budgeting Act, as seen in budgetary changes made to fewer than two dozen District public schools.
To the satisfaction of advocates sat in council chambers, the Committee of the Whole also allocated funds toward a permanent residency sponsorship program for D.C. Public Schools teachers that was under threat of elimination.
In a moment that sparked debate between Mendelson and D.C. Councilmember Zachary Parker (D-Ward 5), the Committee of the Whole reduced D.C. Public Schools (DCPS) central office’s budget via the elimination of two standardized testing contracts.
This mark-up also funds the Board of Trustees Training Amendment Act of 2025, legislation crafted in the aftermath of Eagle Academy Public Charter School’s closure. As community members reel from the closure of I Dream Public Charter School in Southeast and Hope Community Public Charter School – Tolson Campus in Northeast, the council allocated funds from those shuttered schools to DCPS in anticipation of enrollment changes.
If the print in its current form is approved, an increase of $1.2 million to D.C. Public Charter School Board’s budget will go toward — once again — closing a deficit that jeopardizes programming at St. Coletta of Greater Washington, a level-four school for special needs students. Despite a funding task force’s recommendation that St. Coletta needs an additional wing, Bowser’s budget proposal neither funds that nor addresses what has become a recurring problem for the Southeast-based school.
D.C. Councilmember Christina Henderson (D), a lawmaker with council staffer experience, expressed her commitment to securing permanent recurring investments for St. Coletta.
“I feel like we’ve been doing these sort of one-offs since I was a staffer at the council with the Committee on Education,” Henderson said on June 25. “And really now it’s time for us to have a permanent predictable solution for the work that they are doing there.”
Despite support for committee mark-up, some council members — including D.C. Councilmembers Brianne Nadeau (D-Ward 1) — expressed their qualms about the lack of funding for the community schools model in District public schools.
“Community schools provide vital integrated support services for our students and family through trusted community partners like the Latin American Youth Center, which is facing significant reductions under the proposed budget,” Nadeau said on the dais on June 25 as she recommended nearly $7 million to restore and expand the program.
Other budgetary behemoths include: a $10 million gap for the Early Childhood Educator Pay Equity Fund; a $20 million gap for the District’s childcare subsidy; and the need for $350,000 in dedicated funds for educator wellness grants. However, for D.C. Councilmember Anita Bonds (D-At large), the D.C. Futures program, through which District residents can get a free college education, deserves just as much support.
The committee print only allows for one-time funding so that current recipients can graduate from a local university free of charge. That means, if the budget is approved in this form, no new students would receive funding through the program.
“One of the [agency] directors made a point of saying that for every adult member resident of D.C., there is a job in D.C.,” Bonds said on the dais on June 25. “Now, when I look at how many D.C. residents are in jobs it goes down to 25%. So my thing is we have to do whatever we have to do to make sure that we are funding an education-to-employment pipeline.”
The Fight to Restore— Even If Partially— Health and Human Services Programming
Henderson and D.C. Councilmember Matt Frumin (D-Ward 3) spent the last several weeks leading efforts to reverse proposed cuts in the local health and human services sector.
Frumin, who’s facilitating this process for the first time as chair of the council’s Committee on Human Services, expressed satisfaction with the markup that came out of that body.
“We looked for ways that we could leverage so that we could move resources to places…where they would be put to the best use,” Frumin told The Informer on June 24. “And to be able to restore the hours for the libraries, to be able to increase the investment in circulation, and the things we were able to do on TANF [are] super important as well.”
The Committee on Human Services collaborated with the council’s Committee on Health to keep the hours of operation at 60 hours per week for the District’s public libraries. The committee markup also yielded, with the help of D.C. Councilmembers Nadeau and Lewis George, the partial restoration of TANF and that of transitional housing.
However, Frumin said the work isn’t finished when it comes to emergency rental assistance.
“The mayor has said she’s going to move it from $5 million to $8 million, which is what it was pre-COVID, but there’s a question of whether it should go significantly higher than that,” Frumin said. “We weren’t going to have the capacity to do that. Internal conversation about priorities will inform the suggestions to the chairman as he’s pulling everything together.”
Throughout much of the budget deliberation process, D.C. residents and advocates have converged on the John A. Wilson Building with the demand that the council protect the safety nets that marginalized residents are depending on during a period of economic uncertainty. On the morning of June 18 for instance, dozens of union organizers, with signs and banners in hand, stood in opposition to a mayoral budget proposal they likened to President Donald J. Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill Act.
Earlier this year, in response to spending pressures and developments on the Hill, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser presented an FY 2026 budget proposal that triggers cuts to D.C. Healthcare Alliance and narrows Medicaid eligibility. If approved, more than 25,000 District residents [those who are between 138 and 200 percent of the federal poverty line] would move to a basic healthcare plan without dental and vision, substance disorder treatment benefits, and access to non-emergency medical transportation.
A small number of healthcare recipients who would no longer have access to Medicaid, nor eligibility for the basic health plan would also have to find insurance through the D.C. Health Link exchange, which advocates said would incur out-of-pocket costs and spur emergency room visits. While Jaime Contreras, executive vice president of 32BJ SEIU, took aim at Bowser’s proposed elimination of D.C.’s sanctuary city status, he said that the narrowing of Medicaid proves equally, if not more, harmful to the workers under his purview.
“They can’t afford healthcare. This is why they are [on] Medicaid, and some of them are in D.C. Alliance,” said Contreras, whose constituency includes 20,000 workers in the D.C. metropolitan area and Baltimore. “But this is not just about our members. Like I said, 27,000 [union members] are going to be impacted by the D.C. Healthcare Alliance slash, and there’s another 25,000 people that are going to be impacted by the cuts in Medicaid under the mayor’s budget.”
The budget markup approved by the D.C. Council’s Committee on Health didn’t restore benefits for those moved to a basic healthcare plan.
However, committee members allocated $3.7 million in Fiscal year 2026, and $12.1 million over the financial plan, toward the reversal of portions of the mayor’s budget that increases eligibility requirements for DC Healthcare Alliance and cuts access to durable medical equipment.
D.C. Councilmember Christina Henderson (I-At large), chair of the Committee on Health, said she’s looking to her council colleagues in the Committee of the Whole to help close the gap.
“The committee was not able to identify funding to cover those loss benefits under BHP (basic healthcare plan) but we urge the Committee of the Whole to identify this funding, particularly the 5.2 million needed for dental coverage,” Henderson said. “For the Alliance, the proposed budget also makes a number of changes to the Alliance and the Immigrant Children’s Health Program, including moving all of the Immigrant Children’s Program enrollees to Alliance, reducing eligibility and benefits for adult enrollees in FY26, and ending adult eligibility beginning in FY27.”
In its markup of the budget, the health committee, in partnership with the Committee on Human Services, recommended the expansion of the Office of the Healthcare Ombudsman’s purview to assist residents in SNAP and TANF certification processes.
The committee also secured $625,000 for the Nurse-Family Partnership, a program that connects nurses to first-time mothers. After initially planning to move all school-based behavioral health matters out of the Department of Behavioral Health (DBH) and in D.C. Health, the D.C. Council’s Committee on Health, in collaboration with DBH, devised a plan where the latter would have to produce a detailed improvement plan by October 15.
The committee also approved another $500,000 in recurring funds for the D.C. Diaper Bank. On the provider side, the Committee on Health approved a $7.9 million enhancement aimed at addressing a payment parity issue for dentists.
The mark-up also includes recommendations that $1.3 million goes toward the partial restoration of HIV prevention and surveillance programs affected by federal funding loss. Another $411,000 was allocated toward the expansion of the DC Health and Wellness Center.
In the realm of food access, the council’s Committee on Health funded the Grocery Access Pilot Program and restored funding for Dreaming Out Loud, which ensures the timely launch of the Marion Barry Avenue Market, scheduled for later this summer. The committee also funded the Farmers Market Support Amendment Act, which supports the expansion of farmers markets in low-income areas via allocations to D.C. Health and D.C. Department of Licensing and Consumer Protection.
For at least another year, 1,000 D.C. residents would be able to learn how to purchase groceries online through D.C. Health’s Grocery Access Pilot Program. Despite these efforts, and more, Henderson acknowledged the prevailing circumstances complicating the budget process.
“There are still a number of outstanding factors, particularly uncertainty on the federal side,” Henderson said during the June 23 committee hearing. “These changes and the future financial projections may affect policies and the cost moving forward.”
The RENTAL Act to Stand Alone, While the Committee on Housing Focuses on Preservation
Earlier this year, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) built on her longtime criticism of tenants who are delinquent on rent by introducing the RENTAL Act. She later included the comprehensive legislative package in her Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Support Act, a decision that would allow the bill to circumvent the conventional legislative process, despite resident and advocate concerns about provisions narrowing TOPA rights and allowing the mayor to give land to private developers without a council vote.
In response to such concerns, the D.C. Council’s Committee on Housing approved a budget markup that removed the RENTAL Act from the Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Support Act. Robert White, housing committee chair, confirmed that the legislation would stand alone with a markup going before the Committee on Housing on July 9, and the Committee of the Whole on July 14.
White pointed out significant changes, including the elimination of the mayor’s provision preventing tenants of majority market-rate apartments from exercising their right of first refusal under TOPA.
“The mayor’s version of the RENTAL Act had some very confusing language that title companies said they couldn’t understand, that I as a policy maker couldn’t completely understand,” White told The Informer on June 27. “But the bigger issue was the exemptions the mayor had proposed would incentivize landlords to raise their rents in order to be exempted from TOPA, so that would actually move us in the wrong direction.”
The RENTAL Act, as approved by the D.C. Council’s Committee on Housing creates a 15-year TOPA exemption for newly constructed apartment buildings and buildings that undergo major rehabilitation TOPA. “The change we’re making will affect somewhere between zero and 4% of TOPA transactions,” White told The Informer. “So we’re talking about something that has barely any impact on the use of TOPA or tenant’s rights whatsoever.”
Another change that the Committee on Housing made to the RENTAL Act represents an attempt to end predatory practices made against tenants.
“We have some language [to stop developers] from swooping in and promising residents things that they can’t deliver before residents understand their TOPA rights,” White said. “We’re going to give the non-profits that we fund to help residents with TOPA rights more advanced notice of sales so that the good actors can get in there. And we’re going to create a list of housing developers that get the city’s stamp of approval so that tenants who don’t know the real estate landscape can have some assurance that the folks they’re working with are good actors.”
In its committee markup of the budget, the council’s Committee on Housing also focused on the upkeep of the current housing stock, via allocations to the Housing Production Trust Fund and the approval of a requirement that 30% of dollars in that coffer go toward housing preservation. The committee also funded a grant that owners of small apartment buildings can tap into when they want to renovate their property without raising rent.
On June 23, White’s office released a newsletter confirming the RENTAL Act’s removal from Bowser’s Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Support Act — just hours after more than a dozen members of the Fair Budget Coalition hosted a sleep-in at the council member’s office.
White, according to the newsletter, was miles away at the D.C. Landlord Tenant Court during this act of civil disobedience. After organizers engaged in dialogue with White’s chief of staff, they set up their sleeping bags and blankets before belting chants and holding up signs demanding protection of TOPA, funding of emergency rental assistance, and taxes on the wealthy.
“At the end of the day, our ask is very clear, and it is that Robert White choose to take meaningful action on the issue at hand,” said Sophia Bos-Shadi, a lead organizer with the Fair Budget Coalition. “There is too much that needs to be funded for [the council member] to say that we’ve made a real effort.”
As it relates to the RENTAL Act, Bos-Shadi said the legislation should be scrapped. “Our follow up to [At-large Councilmember White], of course, is that he rejects the RENTAL Act as it undermines protections for tenants and speeds up evictions,” Bos-Shadi said. “ He’s working on amendments and we will be curious to see them, but as the RENTAL Act stands, we oppose it.”
Bos-Shadi told The Informer that, at a time of economic uncertainty, she also would like to see the council take action on raising taxes for the District’s wealthiest residents. White’s emphasis on smart spending and government efficiency, she said, wouldn’t suffice.
“There are hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars sitting on the table here in the District with wealth that is untaxed, which we are going to need to offset some of the hardships [caused by] Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Budget’ and just the face of the economy right now,” Bos-Shadi said.
For Bos-Shadi, the council should’ve considered a tax increase long ago.
“Last year, the budget left over 5,000 households homeless, hundreds of thousands more facing insecurities in their housing,” she told The Informer. “And year in and year out, we are engaging in this process of moving little bits of money from one program to another. Now, there is a choice that our policymakers are making here not to expand the pot when the answer is right there.”
The Future of Violence Prevention Hangs in the Balance
The council’s Committee on Public Safety and Justice approved a committee print, developed in collaboration with D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and the council’s Office of the Budget Director, that dissolves the Office of the Attorney General’s Cure the Streets program and centers the Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement (ONSE) as the District’s sole violence interruption entity.
The committee print approved on June 25 funds ONSE while moving its Pathways Program to the Department of Employment Services. If approved in its current form, it will eliminate 90 full-time positions related to Cure the Streets.
This version also outlines accountability measures intended to ensure that ONSE performs efficiently.
This arrangement, for the time being, resolves a conflict that erupted when D.C. Councilmember Brooke Pinto, during the earlier part of last week, circulated a committee print that, reportedly to the chagrin of D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and Attorney General Brian Schwalb, eliminated ONSE and placed violence interruption solely in the hands of the Office of the Attorney General.
On the day preceding the June 25 meeting, when the committee was originally scheduled to conduct its vote, Pinto explained her intent in holding ONSE more accountable.
“My hope and expectation is that…we’ll be able to secure a set of commitments from the mayor on making sure that ONSE is managed in a way that has a strict adherence to the model,” Pinto told The Informer. “that gets the resources to where they need to go quickly to the [community-based organizations] doing the work, that they have effective oversight of the permits, and that we’re setting up our Pathways participants for more success.”
Other aspects of the approved committee print include an allocation of $12.4 million to Access to Justice, which provides legal services for marginalized D.C. residents. Another $3.9 million across the financial plan supports the Office of the Inspector General while the Office of Victim Services and Justice Grants (OVSJG) would receive $52.6 million.
The committee print also ensures the funding of the unified juvenile justice system plan outlined in the ROAD Act.
An allocation of more than $9 million funds Safe Passage programming and legislation that improves training of safe passage personnel. Another $2 million goes toward Safe Commercial Corridor grants, while the council also allocates funds for resources that protect nonprofit organizations from acts of violence and increase access to public restrooms.
When it comes to the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), the committee ensured that the agency received the total amount requested while adding $2.5 million in capital funds to improve MPD’s training academy facility. Another $1 million in one-time funds will help the police and fire clinic provide medical services — including cancer and cardiac screenings — to more than 6,000 local and federal law enforcement and fire personnel.
The committee allocated another $2.3 million toward raises and bonuses for 911 and 311 call takers and dispatchers, more than $90 million for fire and emergency medical services equipment, and nearly $14 million for software upgrades in the Office of Unified Communications.
As the entire council gears up for the last leg of Fiscal Year 2026 budget deliberations, some committee members — like D.C. Councilmembers Kenyan McDuffie (I-At large) and Charles Allen (D-Ward 6) — have their eye on the restoration of programs defunded in the committee print.
McDuffie, architect of the Neighborhood Engagement Achieves Results Act, also known as the NEAR Act, said that eliminating Cure the Streets sets back violence interruption in the District by at least a decade. “We got to a place where finally people understood that this model…of preventing crime, whether it is a pure violence model or other models, works,” McDuffie said on June 25.
In speaking about what’s been described as ineffective management of ONSE, McDuffie said that situation lies at the feet of the executive, which has been charged with fully implementing the NEAR Act, but has fallen short in doing so, according to a report compiled by the Office of the D.C. Auditor.
“I know you have an agreement,” McDuffie told Pinto on June 25. “and I haven’t gone through it yet,but I’m really pleased that you’ve taken the opportunity to really push the executive on this front and look forward to working with you to continue to push harder to get them to implement what has been envisioned in the NEAR Act and what has been passed in the law.”
Allen expressed concern that the quick turnaround, between the cancellation of the original committee hearing and deliberation on the revised budget market, could jeopardize the District’s violence interruption goals.
Even with his acknowledgement of the committee’s work, Allen suggested that he and his colleagues take a bit more time to reconcile various priorities. He unsuccessfully attempted to advance an amendment that reverses the move of the hospital-based violence prevention program out of OVSJG and under ONSE, but not without putting his perspective on the record.
“We heard from the leadership of Cedar Hill, Children’s [National Medical Center], University of Maryland, and MedStar, [that] they strongly oppose this move,” Allen told Pinto on June 25. “They believe it needs to stay at OVSJG. These are programs that very much focus on victim services and [the] legal professional community.”
When it comes to ONSE, a program that Allen said deserves placement in that agency is the Pathways Program, which, since its inception, has produced dozens of cohorts, each chock full of returning citizens who are working to decrease their odds of committing or becoming victims of violent acts.
“I think it’s crucially important that an entity like an Office of Neighborhood Safety Engagement understands much more clearly and better what our Pathways program is, how important it is, who we are trying to work with,” Allen said. “and frankly, who is the person that steps up to be to choose to be a part of the Pathways program.”
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