ENROLLED ORIGINAL
A RESOLUTION
25-598
IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
July 9, 2024
To declare an emergency with respect to the need to authorize the Deputy Mayor for Planning
and Economic Development to provide grant funding to a technology incubator in the
District.
RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this
resolution may be cited as the “Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development
Technology Incubator Grant Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2024”.
Sec. 2. (a) Funding for a $500,000 grant to Capital Factory was included in budget for the
Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development in the Fiscal Year 2024 Revised Local
Budget Emergency Act of 2024, effective July 10, 2024 (D.C. Act 25-499; 71 DCR ___), and
funding for a $1.5 million grant to Capital Factory was included in budget for the Deputy Mayor
for Planning and Economic Development in the Fiscal Year 2025 Local Budget Act of 2024,
passed on 2nd reading on June 12, 2024 (Enrolled version of Bill 25-785).
(b) However, a subtitle authorizing the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic
Development to issue the grants was not included in the Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Support
Emergency Act of 2024, passed on emergency basis on June 25, 2024 (Enrolled version of Bill
25-875) or the Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Support Act of 2024, passed on 2nd reading on June 25,
2024 (Enrolled version of Bill 25-784).
(c) Without this emergency measure, the Deputy Mayor would be unable to timely issue
the grants, causing unnecessary delays.
Sec. 3. The Council determines that the circumstances enumerated in section 2 constitute
emergency circumstances making it necessary that the Deputy Mayor for Planning and
Economic Development Technology Incubator Grant Emergency Amendment Act of 2024 be
adopted after a single reading.
Sec. 4. This resolution shall take effect immediately.