Use the City Budget process to:
• restore funding to preserve or build decent housing that people can afford
• increase support for adult literacy, job training and child care
• provide sufficient shelters and stable housing for homeless families and youth
• help low-income families and residents with disabilities to meet their basic needs
• restore funding for crime victims’ and domestic violence services
• maintain health insurance for DC residents
• protect food assistance for seniors.

pursue options to increase revenue if needed to preserve or restore funding to critical services

Designate a day each year for "Guitars Not Guns Day" music festival. GnG is a non profit children's music charity providing guitars and lessons to foster care and at-risk youth in the city. The students have an anthem song they play and sing called "Set Me Free". If we create a day to celebrate their achievements, encourage other youth to join, have food and concert can bond all race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, ward or neighborhood through music. www.gngnca.org

The DC Alliance of Youth Advocates found that the District's rising homeless youth population are coming from failed systems of care with no stable place to live. We must invest in youth throughout their entire development- not stopping at 12, 16, 18, or 20. Let's prove their value in our community by designating affordable housing for homeless and at-risk youth.

Many 15 year olders did a good job in summer 2011 and now they will be only able to make $5.25 an hour just because they are 15, which is a pay cut. Let 14 and 15 year olds compete for Jobs paying $7.25 per hour and working 25 hours per week. There are 14 and 15 year olds who have better attitudes, work skills and commitment than many of the 16 -21 year olds. Or let the 15 year old youth who worked last year maintain their $7.25 pay rate.

• Lack of a vote in Congress disenfranchises District residents
• No taxation without representation

Hello, my name is Louis H. Henderson. I am interested in presenting ideas and ways for non-profit organzations, through Communicating needs and opportunities with one another can help make more efficient use of our buildings and office space. This will ultimately help them build the capacity necessary to serve " One City".

To give those who were once incarcerated to get the necessary job training that he or she needs in order to have a much better life where that person can practice recidivism which would result to that person not committing the same crime over and over again.

Hello, my name is Vickie Ryan. I am interested in presenting ideas regarding services and housing for the homeless. I would like to present a developed proposal that would address homeless single women and single fathers with children i.e. Homeless Day Program and Homeless Shelter with wrap around services, partnership with hospitals and university internship programs. In addtion utilizing volunteers from the senior citizens community to help implement the program

Allow more DC residents to obtain jobs in the district. Don't make the ranking factors so extreme that people with little college experience can't reach the goal. Provide them training if necessary and stop and/or reduce hiring citizens that don't leave in the district. Just because people may not have a college degree doesn't mean they can't do the job.

Pursue options to increase revenue if needed to preserve critical services .

Foster sustainable neighborhoods which focus on the pedestrian rather than autos. Increase public transport which favor residents, public spaces, playgrounds, mini-parks, traffic calming, dedicated bicycle lanes, diagonal crosswalks where all traffic is stopped so pedestrians can cross at an intersection in all directions even diagonally. Increase mixed use condo and apartment living and increase the availability of 3 bedroom condo/apartments. Similar to parking requirements for large commercial buildings, shower facilities should also be encouraged.

The DC foreclosure process should be modified to allow residents to prequalify to purhase properties through an auction or lottery before developers and corporate investors come in. Current system is rigged in favor of businesses and the DC OTR has mismanaged the current tax foreclosure process for many years now. Change is needed.

Let's show the federal government we as a city are serious about putting and end to taxation without representation by starting right here in our own system and opening up the mayoral primaries to all registered voters. I'm a registered independent and in this last mayoral election I felt like my vote didn't matter. After all can we really claim to be "One City" if everyone doesn't get a chance to get their voice heard.

If you were born and raised in the district all your life. Why can't that be a benefit for affordable housing? You know history of the city and have supported it for generations. Just because you are considered middle income doesn't mean you can afford a house in the district if you are a single parent.

Accountability and transparency should be a requirement for each agency, the administration as well as the council.

The city and nearby residents worked for years to get a plan in place. Now the plan is stalled. Get moving, DC.

First, DC should work with Pepco to start a solar rebate program like the City of Fort Collins, CO to help install more solar panels on DC homes and businesses. Second, there should be free home energy audits and a comprehensive list of pre-approved providers for home weather weatherization projects. Third, the city could also host do-it-yourself weatherization classes. Fourth, the city should offer strong rebates on energy efficient applicances and energy efficient windows.