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Although Mayor Adrian Fenty had wanted to fold the entirwe sports commission into the Washington ConventiohnCenter Authority, the 13-member council voted to move only the commission'd marketing and administrative arms to the The council moved the commission'z responsibility for maintaining RFK Stadium and the D.C. Armoru to the Office of Propertyu Management. The council also approver adding to new board membersw tothe authority: Emily president of the Hotel Association of D.C., and sports commission board member William a partner at Winston & Strawn LLP. The impetus for the change was the fact that the sports commission requireda $2.5 million subsidy to operate.
For the overall the council filledan $800 milliojn budget gap with a combination of staff fee increases and some program The council made a number of changes to educationh funding proposed by including increases to the funding formula for publixc charter schools and spending for early childhood It also cut $20 million from the summe youth employment program. “Mty colleagues have worked extremely hard and long on an end resulg that balances competing needs and preferenceas with thefinancial realities,” said Chairmamn Vincent Gray, D-at large, in a press release.
The budgett went through few major changesx after each ofthe council’s committees passed their respective budgets. It is now beintg transferred to Fentyfor approval.