District of Columbia Public Affairs Group

Open to all members with an interest in the District of Columbia, the DC PAG monitors and analyzes DC-related policy issues and advocates for solutions that will enhance the community and business climate. Meets monthly, often with a public official.

District of Columbia Public Affairs Group Roster

 

Legislative Agenda

Economic Development

  • Ensure the effective implementation of the Anacostia Waterfront Initiative, including the development adjacent to a new ballpark on the Anacostia Waterfront, by the Anacostia Waterfront Corporation
  • Facilitate the efforts to fully develop the Old Convention Center site redevelopment into a mixed use office, retail, and residential plan currently contemplated
  • Support the effort to develop a new soccer stadium on the east side of the Anacostia Waterfront
  • Ensure that any Mandatory Inclusionary Zoning efforts in the District of Columbia meet principles that are set forth and agreed upon by the business community
  • Support efforts to provide more affordable workforce housing in the District by working with the District to have it offer employer tax credits to companies who provide housing assistance to employees.
  • Support efforts to trigger development in neighborhoods outside the CBD

Transportation

  • Encourage the District of Columbia, as part of the Compact, to support efforts to identify a dedicated funding source for Metro expansion in order to secure $1.5 billion of federal funding over 10 years for WMATA needs
  • Support District efforts to replace and reconfigure South Capitol Street bridge
  • Engage and provide direction to the K Street project of DDOT, that seeks to create bus lanes on K Street

Education

  • Support school modernization/capital needs while balancing the burden on small and medium size business; seek to increase and tighten accountability and oversight of school modernization through private sector assistance
  • Recognize the contributions made by postsecondary institutions located in DC to the business, cultural and educational health of the city. Facilitate fair and balanced treatment of UDC and other postsecondary institutions regarding business, zoning and workplace matters
  • Continue to press for increased accountability and management controls for DCPS system-wide

Health Care

  • Support efforts to renew or modify the Alliance that currently provides health care to persons not eligible for Medicaid
  • Encourage and support initial steps by the Council to take action to address medical liability reform
  • Support submitting proposal for a National Capital Medical Center to established “certificate of need” process
  • Facilitate the establishment of a ten-year strategic plan for addressing, improving, and measuring key health indicators (incidences of death from heart disease, diabetes, etc.)
  • Oppose efforts to mandate price controls or limits on certain health care products
  • Support the establishment of a Chief Capital Projects Officer, reporting to the City Administrator, whose job it would be to lead, manage, and coordinate capital projects, across agencies of the District of Columbia

Effective Government

  • Continue to seek accountability and fiscal responsibility in both executive and legislative branches of DC government
  • Continue to seek an effective emergency preparedness coordinating effort in the District of Columbia enhanced communication with the surrounding jurisdictions’ and the federal coordinating offices

Other Issues

  • Continue to press Congress to support voting rights for the District of Columbia
  • Continue to press Congress to increase funding for the District as a counter weight to the District’s structural imbalance

 

     
 

 

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Committee Members

  • Chair:

    Frank
    Howard

    President & CEO, Howard Consulting Group, Inc.

  • Chair:

    Jerry
    Moore

    Partner, Venable LLP

Staff:

  • Daniel Flores

    Senior Regional Director, Government Affairs

  • Greater Washington Initiative