Update 3:45 PM
D.C. Council Chairman Kwame Brown’s office has sent out a press release about the upcoming council meeting in which members are expected to talk about the 2013 budget. Without directly addressing the DC Fiscal Policy Institute letter, which was sent to the chairman’s office Monday, the notice says at the bottom that, “The meeting in its entirety will be broadcast on DC cable (check channel listings for your provider).”
The chairman also called The Washington Examiner to point out the broadcast, however he declined to be quoted regarding the letter.
Original blog post:
The D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute is urging D.C. Council Chairman Kwame Brown to keep the council’s budget talks open to the public after the chairman scheduled a meeting among members this week to address the 2013 budget. The council is scheduled to take up the proposed budget at next Tuesday’s scheduled legislative session.
Here is an excerpt from the letter, dated May 7 and obtained Tuesday by The Washington Examiner:
The group asks that, in addition to making all budget-related deliberations public, the council release its final budget proposal “at least 24 hours before the May 15 vote.”
“These two actions would allow D.C. residents the information and time needed to review and understand the proposed budget,” the letter says.
