Tell the DC Council to Support the Immigrant Justice Platform Budget Priorities!

The DC Immigrant Justice Platform comprises multiple legislative and budget priorities that are essential to the well-being of DC’s many immigrant communities.

Join us in asking the DC Council to fund the platform by:

• Begin disbursal of the Excluded Workers Funding from the FY23 budget by May

• Urge the Mayor and City Administrator to allocate contingency funds to the Office of Migrant Services to provide emergency shelter to unhoused migrant families

• Fund the Street Vendor Advancement Amendment Act in the FY24 and Supplemental Budget

• Fund the Domestic Workers Employment Rights Amendment Act in the FY24 budget

• Fund the Local Residents Voting Rights Amendment Act in the FY24 budget

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Breakdown of the budget priorities:

• Excluded Workers

  • By May 30th, begin distribution of the $20 million dollars allocated to the excluded worker cash assistance in the FY23 budget and ensure the funds are disseminated in full

• Office of Migrant Services

  • Urge the Mayor and City Administrator to allocate contingency funds to the Office of Migrant Services to provide emergency shelter to unhoused migrant families

• Street Vendor Advancement Amendment Act

  • $175k recurring from the Committee on Health for the Department of Health to create the new Microenterprise Home Kitchen permit and hire inspectors

  • $409k recurring from the Committee on Public Works and Operations for staffing at the Department of Licensing and Consumer Protection, $587k recurring to compensate for reducing license fees and fines, and $125k recurring for the Columbia Heights-Mount Pleasant Vending Zone management contract

  • $150k one-time from the Committee of the Whole to the Office of Planning for a public asset and vendor support study at the Columbia Heights-Mount Pleasant zone and $225k recurring to the same agency to hire community partners

  • We are still waiting for a Fiscal Impact Statement from the Office of Tax and Revenue for the amnesty program which we need funded in the FY23 Supplemental Budget

• Domestic Workers Employment Rights Amendment Act
  

  • $400.5k recurring from the Committee on Facilities and Family Services for public education grants

  • $140.5k recurring from the Judiciary Committee recurring for staffing at the Attorney General’s office

  • $303k from the Committee on Executive Administration and Labor for staffing and other needs at the Department of Employment Services

  • $345k recurring and $32k one-time from the Committee on Public Works and Operations for the staffing and other needs at the Office of Human Rights

• Local Residents Voting Rights Amendment Act

  • $1.48 million in FY24, and a total of $1.88 million over the financial plan, from the Committee on Executive Administration and Labor to the Board of Elections