IMPORTANT D.C. COUNCIL CONTACTS ON DISABILITY ISSUES

As of January 2023, the Council of the District of Columbia's Committee on Facilities and Family Services (https://dccouncil.gov/committees/committee-on-facilities-and-family-services/) oversees the Department on Disability Services (DDS) and has overarching responsibility for many essential issues involving DC's most marginalized residents.  Its membership includes:

Janeese Lewis George (Ward 4), chair
jlewisgeorge@dccouncil.gov

Brianne Nadeau (Ward 1), immediate past chair
bnadeau@dccouncil.gov

Robert White, Jr. (At-Large)
rwhite@dccouncil.gov

Matthew Frumin (Ward 3)
mfrumin@dccouncil.gov

Zachary Parker (Ward 5)
zparker@dccouncil.gov

George, Nadeau and White were previously on the committee overseeing DDS, but Frumin and Parker are new to the committee and the council.

Other members of the council (https://dccouncil.gov/) are:

Phil Mendelson (Council chair, At-Large)
pmendelson@dccouncil.gov

Brooke Pinto (Ward 2)
bpinto@dccouncil.gov

Kenyan McDuffie (At-Large)
kmcduffie@dccouncil.gov

Charles Allen (Ward 6)
callen@dccouncil.gov

Vincent Gray (Ward 7)
vgray@dccouncil.gov

Trayon White, Sr. (Ward 8)
twhite@dccouncil.gov

Anita Bonds (At-Large)
abonds@dccouncil.gov

Christina Henderson (At-Large)
chenderson@dccouncil.gov

There has been a wholesale rethinking of committee structure in the council this year, but other DC council committees whose deliberations are likely to have a meaningful impact on DC’s developmentally disabled residents have overlapping membership with the CFFS and include:

• The Committee on Housing (https://dccouncil.gov/committees/housing-neighborhood-revitalization, chaired by Robert White, with Frumin and Parker as members
• The Committee on Executive Administration and Labor (https://dccouncil.gov/committees/committee-on-executive-administration-and-labor), which handles employment issues and is chaired by Bonds with Frumin and George as members
• The Committee on Health (https://dccouncil.gov/committees/committee-on-health), chaired by Henderson, with Nadeau and Parker as members
• The Committee on Hospital and Health Equity (https://dccouncil.gov/committees/committee-on-hospital-and-health-equity), chaired by Gray, with Frumin and Parker as members The Committee of the Whole (https://dccouncil.gov/committees/committee-of-the-whole), which takes up education issues, including those affecting disabled students, and is chaired by Mendelson and includes the entire council membership