Download it here.

If you have any questions about any of these fees, please contact the Office of the City Administrator at (202) 478-9200.

Watch live from the Council website.

Download meeting notice.

• The Council's Commitee of the Whole will meet for an additional meeting at 10AM to consider B19-11: Youth Bullying Prevention Act of 2012.

• The Council's regularly scheduled legislative meeting - the 34th Meeting - is scheduled for 10AM. We don't expect the COW meeting to last very long so both the COW and 34th Legislative Meeting are listed on the website as starting at 10AM.

• The Council will also hold an ADDITIONAL legislative meeting - the 35th Meeting - on Tuesday, immediately after the 34th Legislative Meeting, to go over Budget Request and Budget Support Act measures, at the request of the Mayor.

Watch live from our website beginning at 10AM.

Fiscal Year 2013 Budget Oversight Hearings Schedule (Revised 4/26/12)

***To search hearings by committee and/or by event type (i.e., Agency Performance, Budget Oversight), visit our Calendar listing of events. Select Committee or Event Type, and select "Filter."

4/26/12 UPDATE
The following revision has been made to the FY13 Budget Oversight Hearings schedule:

• Monday, April 30 COW hearing on Budget Request Act and Budget Support Act has been rescheduled from 10AM to Noon.

4/25/12 UPDATE
The following revision has been made to the FY13 Budget Oversight Hearings schedule:

• Friday, April 27 Committee on Small & Local Business Development hearing on the Small & Local Business Opportunity Commission has been canceled.

4/23/12 UPDATE
The following revisions have been made to the FY13 Budget Oversight Hearings schedule:

• Friday, April 27 Committee on Health hearing on Not-for-Profit Hospital Corporation has been rescheduled from 2PM to 3PM
• Tuesday, April 24 COW hearing on OSSE; Charter School Board; Dep Mayor for Planning & Econ Dev; Council of Gov; and OCT has been moved to Council Chamber, Room 500
• Tuesday, April 24 Public Services & Consumer Affairs hearing on Public Service Commission; Office of People’s Counsel; and DISB has been moved to Room 412

4/6/12 UPDATE
The following revisions have been made to the FY13 Budget Oversight Hearings schedule:

• Washington Council of Governments and Office of Cable Television have been rescheduled from April 27 to the April 24 COW hearing
• Department of General Services (Capital Improvement Plan) has been added to the April 27 COW hearing.

4/3/12 UPDATE
The following revision has been made to the FY13 Budget Oversight Hearings schedule:

• April 4: Dept of Youth and Rehabilitation Services hearing has been moved to 10:30AM (orig time: 11AM)
• April 17: Additional hearing scheduled for Alcoholic Beverage Regulation Administration, 5PM, Room 500

4/2/12 UPDATE
The following revisions have been made to the FY13 Budget Oversight Hearings schedule:

• April 24: Office of the State Superintendent of Education (orig date: April 18)
• April 24: District of Columbia Public Charter School Board (orig date: April 18)
• April 27: Council of the District of Columbia (orig date: April 24)
• April 27: Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (orig date: April 24)
• April 27: Office of the D.C. Auditor (orig date: April 24)
• April 27: Office of Labor Relations and Collective Bargaining (orig date: April 24)
• April 27: Office of Cable Television (orig date: April 24)
• April 27: Office of Budget and Planning (orig date: April 24)

3/26/12 UPDATE
The following revision has been made to the FY13 Budget Oversight Hearings schedule:

• April 24: Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development (orig date: April 5)

3/21/12 UPDATE
The following revisions have been made to the FY13 Budget Oversight Hearings schedule:

• April 20: Office of Attorney General hearing (orig date: March 30)
• April 4: Office of Administrative Hearings (orig date: March 30)
• April 23: Child and Youth Investment Corporation (orig date: March 29)
• April 5: Office of Partnerships and Grants (orig date: April 20)
• April 5: Office of Boards and Commissions (orig date: April 25)
• April 5: Office of Risk Management (orig date: April 25)
• April 18: Office of Inspector General (orig date: April 5)
• April 20: Board of Elections and Ethics (orig date: April 18)

2/29/12 UPDATE
The following revisions have been made to the FY13 Budget Oversight Hearings schedule:

• Department of Healthcare Finance rescheduled to April 19
• Deputy Mayor of Health and Human Services rescheduled to April 26

2/21/12 UPDATE
The following revision has been made to the FY11-12 Agency Performance Oversight Hearings schedule:

• The DCPS portion of COW's education oversight hearing (government testimony only) has been rescheduled for Thursday, February 23 at 10AM
• Committee on Human Services will continue its oversight hearing on the Child and Family Services Agency on Wednesday, March 14, at 11AM, in room 123

2/17/12 UPDATE
The following revisions have been made to the FY13 Budget Oversight hearings schedule:

• Committee of the Whole Public Hearing on the "Fiscal Year 2013 Budget Request Act of 2012" and the "Fiscal Year 2013 Budget Support Act of 2012" - Date moved from May 8 to April 30, 2012
• Markup of the Committee on Housing and Workforce Development - Date moved from April 30 to May 2, 2012
• Markup of the Committee on Public Service and Consumer Affairs -  Date moved from April 30 to May 2, 2012

2/16/12 UPDATE
View DC government agencies' responses to committees' pre-oversight hearing questions on our Agency Responses page
 

2/8/12 UPDATE
The hearings schedules have been revised to include the following changes:

February 9 Small & Local Business hearing on Dept of Small and Local Business Development; Office of Motion Picture and Television Development;  and Destination DC has been moved from 10AM to 11AM.

New contacts are listed for the Committees on Human Services and Housing and Workforce Development.

*Both of the above changes have been made on the Council's central, online calendar.

Find the complete budget hearing listing here, or find specific committee hearings on our online calendar.

Be sure to visit our FY13 Budget and Agency Responses pages frequently for access to all budget-related documents. Go here for our complete listing of budget oversight hearings. Or, to search hearings by committee and/or by event type (i.e., Agency Performance, Budget Oversight), visit our Calendar listing of events. Select Committee or Event Type, and select "Filter."

FY13 Budget Process Twitter Chat – March 21, 2012 – 12:00-1:00PM

Q: Chairman Brown and Budget Director Budoff, can you explain what will happen Friday and what will happen Tuesday?
On Friday, Mayor will present his budget to Council at 9:30am. On Tuesday, Council will hold a public briefing with Mayor and CFO on the FY13 budget in Council Chamber.

Q: Will you post on the website the advance questions to agencies?
A copy of questions sent to agencies will be posted later today to Council website. [Please find questions here.]

Q: Not all the changes made to the hearing sked have been made online. Will you start posting them again as they happen?
A: We will keep the online hearing calendar as up to date as possible.

Q: Will the public be able to testify on Tuesday?
A: Tues briefing is the annual Mayor/CFO presentation of budget to Council. Public does not testify at this hearing. Hearings where the public will be able to testify will occur between March 28 and April 27. Full sched on Council website. [See the overall hearings listing here and the calendar here.]

Q: Will committees decide the time allotted to individual peeps & panels or will this be standard? A little confusing now.
A: Standard time allotted for testimony is 3 min for individ, 5 min for org's

Q: Can you tell us if there is anything different in how council will handle budget this year than in previous years?
A: Budget process is same this year, but Budget Office did send 6 standard questions to each agency to provide more detailed info re FY13.

Council also required Mayor to send master fee schedule. Master fee sched = list of all fees and amounts charged by District for service.

Q: What can the @councilofdc budget office staff do for the public?
A: 6 standard questions will provide more transparency to committees and public on budget.

Q: Will you consider using twitter during council hearing...could residents tweet questions to the dias?
Not sure all Members are using Twitter. Best way to participate is to testify at the hearing.

BUDGET FACTS

• You can sign up online to testify at a hearing on our Sign Up to Testify page.
• Hearing on Budget Request Act and Budget Support Act, when public can testify, is April 30.
• First official budget hearing is Tuesday, March 27.
• First vote on the budget is May 15.
• FY12 local funds budget was $5.6 billion. Gross funds budget was $10.9 billion.
• The 56-day budget period starts Friday, March 23!

Keep the questions coming to @councilofdc using #councilchat and we'll try to continue responding to ongoing questions about process.

All agencies will complete the same set of six questions in a set of spreadsheets. The goal of this new process is to provide uniformity and improve transparency in the review of the proposed budget. Agency responses will be posted on the FY13 Budget page on the Council’s website.  Council Committees will also send agency specific questions, under separate cover, to each agency. 

The Council Committees and the Council’s Office of the Budget Director have asked that each agency complete these worksheets and return them to the Agency’s corresponding committee and the Office of the Budget Director no later than Monday, March 26. We will then have them posted to the Council website by Wednesday, March 28.

View the Budget Office instructions and standard questions.

Learn more about the budget hearing process – from the Mayor’s transmittal of his proposed budget in March, to the final Council vote in June. 

Some questions you may want to ask:

• What is the “Fiscal Year 2013 Budget Request Act of 2012”?
• What is the “Fiscal Year 2013 Budget Support Act of 2012”?
• What are “agency responses”?
• Why are there so many hearings?
• How does the budget actually affect my daily life?
• What is each committee’s specific role in reviewing the budget?
• Does the Mayor have to accept the Council’s revised budget?
• What are committee “markups”?
• What happens in between the committee “markup” period and the Council’s vote on the budget?

Here are the types of questions we won’t be able to respond to:

• What may or may not be included in the Mayor’s budget
• Questions about specific agencies’ budgets
• Questions about individual Councilmembers or their budget priorities

Join the conversation with @CouncilofDC Wednesday, March 21 at noon and learn more about the FY13 Budget Process. Submit questions via Twitter using #CouncilChat.

Memorandum
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From: Councilmember Jack Evans, Chair, Committee on Finance and Revenue

Subject: January 26, 2012 Committee on Finance and Revenue hearing

I am writing to advise members of the agenda for the January 26, 2012 Committee on Finance and Revenue Public Oversight Hearing on the matter of i-gaming and hearing on Bill 19-474, the “Lottery Amendment Repeal Act of 2011”.  The hearing is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. and will start with a panel of Government witnesses invited to testify, including Mr. Buddy Roogow, Director of the DC Lottery and Charitable Games Control Board; Dr. Natwar Gandhi, Chief Financial Officer; Mr. David Shive, Interim Chief Information Officer for the Office of the Chief Financial Officer; and Mr. Charles Willoughby, Inspector General.  Upon completion of the Government witness panel, we will proceed to public witnesses until recessing the hearing at 1 p.m.  We will resume with public witnesses at 6 p.m.  In order to hear as many public witnesses as possible before the recess, we will have two ten minute rounds of questions for the government panel, and have one five minute round of questions for public witnesses.  In the event we are unable to hear public witnesses in the morning portion of the hearing, all public witnesses will be called to testify beginning at 6 p.m.

In the meantime, here are some key dates:

• February 1: Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) Released
• March 23: Mayor Gray's proposed FY13 budget transmitted to the Council
• May 15: Council vote on Budget Request Act and Budget Support Act
• June 5: Second vote on the Budget Support Act