Thursday, January 23, 2025

FY 2026 Performance Reviews Upcoming!

At last Saturday's Project ACTION! meeting, I reminded folks in the chat about upcoming performance review hearings before the DC council.  Here is the schedule:  DC council performance review calendar.  This is the first phase of DC council deliberations in preparation for the FY2026 budget.  A second phase of hearings, probably later in March, will address the budget itself.  

You'll see that - as was the case last year - the DDS performance hearing is quite late, not until March 3 - which will not provide much time between the hearing and the mayor's budget proposals.  As indicated in my previous blog posts in September, October and December of last year, I also have my eye on DBH during this budget season - that performance hearing is coming up soon, on February 3, so if you plan, as I do, to testify at that hearing, keep your eye on this link which should open up for witness signups in the next couple of days.

As you prepare for your testimony, and for your advocacy more generally, please recall this message that I included in an email on January 8:

As you read in my last post of 2024, there will be some continuity in the DC council’s oversight of DDS starting in January.  In fact, there is a lot of continuity in the council overall:  as you plan to testify or to contact your councilmembers over the coming year, you’ll want to use this page from my blog as reference: DC council contacts.  Another page in my blog, Terms and organizations, provides background on some of the terminology I use in my blog posts for your background.

The above resources will be helpful references for you as we come together in our advocacy throughout 2025 and beyond!  Very best to us all in this new, and challenging, year - 

Carol Grigsby (she/her/hers) is a dedicated advocate, focused on advancing rights and increasing opportunities for people with developmental disabilities in Washington, DC. A former member and chair of the DC Developmental Disabilities Council, I currently serve on several local groups focused on issues affecting the disability community. In addition to advocating for full inclusion of people with disabilities in our local community, I strongly support full rights and representation for residents of DC, where I have lived since 1978, since without real democracy no one in DC, disabled or non-disabled, will ever be fully empowered. Opinions in this blog are my own.


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