District Of Columbia 2023-2024 Regular Session

District Of Columbia Council Bill PR25-0374 Compare Versions

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7		-	AN ACT
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	9	+	A PROPOSED RESOLUTION 7
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	13	+	IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 11
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	17	+	To declare the existence of an emergency with respect to the need to amend Chapter 46 of Title 15
	18	+	47 of the District of Columbia Official Code to provide an income tax exemption for 16
	19	+	homeowners of the River East at Grandview Condominium related to financial assistance 17
	20	+	from the District government, and to provide that any District financial assistance be 18
	21	+	excluded from income calculations by District agencies for those residents. 19
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	23	+	RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this 21
	24	+	resolution may be cited as the “River East at Grandview Condominium Assistance Tax 22
	25	+	Exemption Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2023”. 23
	26	+	Sec. 2. (a) On August 16, 2021, engineers from the Falcon Group issued a letter to 24
	27	+	homeowners at the River East at Grandview Condominiums advising them to vacate the 25
	28	+	premises within two weeks due to uninhabitable conditions based on the emergence of 26
	29	+	significant safety concerns from ongoing structural issues. 27
	30	+	(b) On August 26, 2021, the Falcon Group provided additional detail to their original 28
	31	+	assessment by determining that families in approximately 30 of the 46 condominium units 29
	32	+	should move out. 30 2
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12		-	IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
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17		-	To amend, on an emergency basis, the Office of Unified Communications Establishment Act of
18		-	2004 to require the Office of Unified Communications to collect and post publicly on the
19		-	Office’s website the number of calls eligible to be diverted to alternative responses, the
20		-	number of those calls diverted, and data on daily call-taking and dispatching operations;
21		-	and to amend section 16-1053 of the District of Columbia Official Code to add a
22		-	representative of the Office of Unified Communications as a member of the Domestic
23		-	Violence Fatality Review Board.
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25		-	BE IT ENACTED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this
26		-	act may be cited as the “Office of Unified Communications Transparency and Accuracy
27		-	Emergency Amendment Act of 2023”.
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29		-	Sec. 2. The Office of Unified Communications Establishment Act of 2004, effective
30		-	December 7, 2004 (D.C. Law 15-205; D.C. Official Code § 1-327.51 et seq.), is amended by
31		-	adding a new section 3207b to read as follows:
32		-	“Sec. 3207b. Call data collection and posting.
33		-	“(a) On a monthly basis, the Office shall collect and publicly post on the Office’s website
34		-	the number of calls eligible to be diverted and the number of calls actually diverted to the:
35		-	“(1) Department of Behavioral Health Access Help Line;
36		-	“(2) District Department of Transportation for motor vehicle collisions that do not
37		-	result in an injury;
38		-	“(3) Department of Public Works for parking enforcement; and
39		-	“(4) Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department Nurse Triage Line.
40		-	“(b) On a monthly basis, the Office shall publicly post the following information on the
41		-	Office's website:
42		-	“(1) Descriptions of each call-taker and dispatcher error, the cause of the error,
43		-	and the corrective action taken by the Office;
44		-	“(2) Number of shifts operated under minimum staffing levels;
45		-	“(3) Average and maximum call to answer times;
46		-	“(4) Average and maximum answer to dispatch times; ENROLLED ORIGINAL
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52		-	“(5) Number of calls in the queue for over 15 seconds;
53		-	“(6) Number of calls dropped following a queue time of over 15 seconds; and
54		-	“(7) Number and type of 911 misuse calls.”.
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56		-	Sec. 3. Section 16-1053(a) of the District of Columbia Official Code is amended as
57		-	follows:
58		-	(a) Paragraph (9) is amended by striking the phrase “; and” and inserting a semicolon in
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60		-	(b) Paragraph (10) is amended by striking the period and inserting the phrase “; and” in
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62		-	(c) A new paragraph (11) is added to read as follows:
63		-	“(11) The Office of Unified Communications.”.
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65		-	Sec. 4. Fiscal impact statement.
66		-	The Council adopts the fiscal impact statement of the Budget Director as the fiscal impact
67		-	statement required by section 4a of the General Legislative Procedures Act of 1975, approved
68		-	October 16, 2006 (12 Stat. 2038; D.C. Official Code § 1-301.47a).
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70		-	Sec. 5. Effective date
71		-	This act shall take effect following approval by the Mayor (or in the event of veto by the
72		-	Mayor, action by the Council to override the veto), and shall remain in effect for no longer than
73		-	90 days, as provided for emergency acts of the Council of the District of Columbia in section
74		-	412(a) of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, approved December 24, 1973 (87 Stat. 788;
75		-	D.C. Official Code § 1-204.12(a)).
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	34	+	(c) Subsequently, homeowners of these units were forced to vacate their homes and find 31
	35	+	alternative living arrangements very quickly, and without vital information related to a 32
	36	+	timeframe for their opportunity to return to their homes. 33
	37	+	(c) The District government developed multiple assistance programs in response to the 34
	38	+	displacement of these homeowners, including the use of housing certificates and other resources 35
	39	+	to ease the transition into temporary residence until appropriate repairs can be made to the 36
	40	+	Talbert Street property. 37
	41	+	(d) In order to ensure that displaced homeowners are receiving the full value of the 38
	42	+	assistance provided by the District government, it is necessary to approve emergency legislation. 39
	43	+	Sec. 3. The Council of the District of Columbia determines that the circumstances 40
	44	+	enumerated in section 2 constitute emergency circumstances making it necessary that the River 41
	45	+	East at Grandview Estates Condominium Assistance Tax Exemption Emergency Amendment 42
	46	+	Act of 2023 be adopted after a single reading. 43
	47	+	Sec. 4. This resolution shall take effect immediately. 44