ENROLLED ORIGINAL
A RESOLUTION
24-293
IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
November 16, 2021
To declare the existence of an emergency with respect to the need to designate the school in Lot
0814 in Square 2806, at 1335 Farragut Place N.W., as the John Lewis Elementary
School.
RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this
resolution may be cited as the John Lewis Elementary School Designation Emergency
Declaration Resolution of 2021.
Sec. 2. (a) There exists an immediate need to designate the school in Lot 0814 in Square
2806, at 1335 Farragut Place N.W., as the John Lewis Elementary School.
(b) The permanent version of this measure, Bill 24-339, had its first reading on
November 2, 2021, and will have its second reading on December 7, 2021.
(c) District of Columbia Public Schools has requested that the name of the school be
adopted as soon as possible to enable it to install signage and complete the necessary steps to
finalize the building as the John Lewis Elementary School in the current 2021-2022 school year.
Sec. 3. The Council finds that the circumstances enumerated in section 2 constitute
emergency circumstances making it necessary that the John Lewis Elementary Designation
Emergency Act of 2021 be adopted after a single reading.
Sec. 4. This resolution shall take effect immediately.