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of interest earned on the Federal payment made to the
District of Columbia Offender Supervision, Defender, and
Court Services Agency under the District of Columbia Ap-
propriations Act, 1998, by the Agency during fiscal years
1998 and 1999 shall not constitute a violation of such Act
or such subchapter.
FEDERAL PAYMENT FOR WASHINGTON INTERFAITH
NETWORK
For a Federal payment to the Washington Interfaith
Network to reimburse the Network for costs incurred in
carrying out preconstruction activities at the former Fort
Dupont Dwellings and Additions, $1,000,000: Provided,
That such activities may include architectural and engi-
neering studies, property appraisals, environmental as-
sessments, grading and excavation, landscaping, paving,
and the installation of curbs, gutters, sidewalks, sewer
lines, and other utilities: Provided further, That the Sec-
retary of the Treasury shall make such payment only after
the Network has received matching funds from private
sources (including funds provided through loans) to carry
out such activities in an aggregate amount which is equal
to the amount of such payment (as certified by the Inspec-
tor General of the District of Columbia) and has provided
the Secretary of the Treasury with a request for reim-
bursement which contains documentation certified by the
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Inspector General of the District of Columbia showing
that the Network carried out the activities and that the
costs incurred in carrying out the activities were equal to
or less than the amount of the reimbursement requested:
Provided further, That none of the funds provided under
this heading may be obligated or expended after December
31, 2001 (without regard to whether the activities involved
were carried out prior to such date).
FEDERAL PAYMENT FOR SIMPLIFIED PERSONNEL
SYSTEM
For a Federal payment to the Mayor of the District
of Columbia to study and design a system approved by
the Comptroller General for simplifying the administration
of personnel policies (including pay policies) with respect
to employees of the District government, $250,000: Pro-
vided, That the Mayor shall carry out such study and de-
sign through a contractor approved by the Comptroller
General.
METRORAIL CONSTRUCTION
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For a contribution to the Washington Metropolitan
Area Transit Authority for construction of a Metrorail sta-
tion located at New York and Florida Avenues, Northeast,
$25,000,000, to remain available until expended, of which
$7,100,000
is
appropriated
under
this
heading
and
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$17,900,000 shall be transferred by the District of Colum-
bia Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance
Authority (DCFRMA) from interest earned on accounts
held by DCFRMA on behalf of the District of Columbia
government.
FEDERAL PAYMENT FOR NATIONAL MUSEUM OF
AMERICAN MUSIC
For a Federal payment to the Federal City Council
for the establishment of a National Museum of American
Music, $250,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That such funds shall be used for the costs of activi-
ties necessary to complete the planning phase for such
Museum, including the costs of personnel, design projects,
environmental assessments, and the preparation of re-
quests for proposals: Provided further, That such funds
shall be deposited into a separate account of the Federal
City Council used exclusively for the establishment of such
Museum: Provided further, That the Secretary of the
Treasury shall make such payment only after the Federal
City Council has deposited matching donated funds from
private sources into the account in an aggregate amount
which is equal to 200 percent of the amount appropriated
herein (as certified by the Inspector General of the Dis-
trict of Columbia).
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PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATION
For a payment to the District of Columbia to reim-
burse the District for expenses incurred in connection with
Presidential inauguration activities, $5,961,000, as au-
thorized by section 737(b) of the District of Columbia
Home Rule Act, approved December 24, 1973 (87 Stat.
824; D.C. Code, sec. 1–1132), which shall be apportioned
by the Chief Financial Officer within the various appro-
priation headings in this Act.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA FUNDS
OPERATING EXPENSES
DIVISION OF EXPENSES
The following amounts are appropriated for the Dis-
trict of Columbia for the current fiscal year out of the
general fund of the District of Columbia, except as other-
wise specifically provided: Provided, That notwithstanding
any other provision of law, except for section 136(a) of
this Act, the total amount appropriated in this Act for
operating expenses for the District of Columbia for fiscal
year 2001 under this heading shall not exceed the lesser
of the sum of the total revenues of the District of Colum-
bia for such fiscal year or $5,689,276,000 (of which
$192,804,000 shall be from intra-District funds and
$3,245,623,000 shall be from local funds): Provided fur-
ther, That the Chief Financial Officer of the District of
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Columbia and the District of Columbia Financial Respon-
sibility and Management Assistance Authority shall take
such steps as are necessary to assure that the District of
Columbia meets these requirements, including the appor-
tioning by the Chief Financial Officer of the appropria-
tions and funds made available to the District during fis-
cal year 2001, except that the Chief Financial Officer may
not reprogram for operating expenses any funds derived
from bonds, notes, or other obligations issued for capital
projects.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
AND MANAGEMENT ASSISTANCE AUTHORITY
For the District of Columbia Financial Responsibility
and Management Assistance Authority, established by sec-
tion 101(a) of the District of Columbia Financial Respon-
sibility and Management Assistance Act of 1995 (109
Stat. 97; Public Law 104–8), $3,140,000 from local
funds: Provided, That none of the funds contained in this
Act may be used to pay any compensation of the Executive
Director or General Counsel of the Authority at a rate
in excess of the maximum rate of compensation which may
be paid to such individual during fiscal year 2001 under
section 102 of such Act, as determined by the Comptroller
General (as described in GAO letter report B–279095.2).
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GOVERNMENTAL DIRECTION AND SUPPORT
Governmental direction and support, $194,621,000
(including $161,022,000 from local funds, $20,424,000
from Federal funds, and $13,175,000 from other funds):
Provided, That not to exceed $2,500 for the Mayor,
$2,500 for the Chairman of the Council of the District
of Columbia, and $2,500 for the City Administrator shall
be available from this appropriation for official purposes:
Provided further, That any program fees collected from the
issuance of debt shall be available for the payment of ex-
penses of the debt management program of the District
of Columbia: Provided further, That no revenues from
Federal sources shall be used to support the operations
or activities of the Statehood Commission and Statehood
Compact Commission: Provided further, That the District
of Columbia shall identify the sources of funding for Ad-
mission to Statehood from its own locally-generated reve-
nues: Provided further, That all employees permanently
assigned to work in the Office of the Mayor shall be paid
from funds allocated to the Office of the Mayor: Provided
further, That notwithstanding any other provision of law,
or Mayor’s Order 86–45, issued March 18, 1986, the Of-
fice of the Chief Technology Officer’s delegated small pur-
chase authority shall be $500,000: Provided further, That
the District of Columbia government may not require the
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Office of the Chief Technology Officer to submit to any
other procurement review process, or to obtain the ap-
proval of or be restricted in any manner by any official
or employee of the District of Columbia government, for
purchases that do not exceed $500,000: Provided further,
That $303,000 and no fewer than 5 FTEs shall be avail-
able exclusively to support the Labor-Management Part-
nership Council: Provided further, That no funds except
those already encumbered shall be available for the
Maximus, Inc., revenue recovery services contract (Con-
tract GF 98104) until such time as the contract is renego-
tiated to require Maximus, Inc., to recover maximum rev-
enue first for Medicaid reimbursable special education
transportation costs, second for Medicaid reimbursable
special education residential placement costs, and third for
the Medicaid reimbursable costs of Mental Retardation
and Developmental Disabilities Administration clients.
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND REGULATION
Economic development and regulation, $205,638,000
(including $53,562,000 from local funds, $92,378,000
from Federal funds, and $59,698,000 from other funds),
of which $15,000,000 collected by the District of Colum-
bia in the form of BID tax revenue shall be paid to the
respective BIDs pursuant to the Business Improvement
Districts Act of 1996 (D.C. Law 11–134; D.C. Code, sec.
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1–2271 et seq.), and the Business Improvement Districts
Amendment Act of 1997 (D.C. Law 12–26): Provided,
That such funds are available for acquiring services pro-
vided by the General Services Administration: Provided
further, That Business Improvement Districts shall be ex-
empt from taxes levied by the District of Columbia.
PUBLIC SAFETY AND JUSTICE
Public safety and justice, including purchase or lease
of 135 passenger carrying vehicles for replacement only,
including 130 for police-type use and five for fire-type use,
without regard to the general purchase price limitation for
the current fiscal year, and such sums as may be nec-
essary for making refunds and for the payment of judg-
ments that have been entered against the District of Co-
lumbia
government
$762,346,000
(including
$591,365,000 from local funds, $24,950,000 from Federal
funds, and $146,031,000 from other funds): Provided fur-
ther, That the Metropolitan Police Department is author-
ized to replace not to exceed 25 passenger carrying vehi-
cles and the Department of Fire and Emergency Medical
Services of the District of Columbia is authorized to re-
place not to exceed five passenger carrying vehicles annu-
ally whenever the cost of repair to any damaged vehicle
exceeds three fourths of the cost of the replacement: Pro-
vided further, That not to exceed $500,000 shall be avail-
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able from this appropriation for the Chief of Police for
the prevention and detection of crime: Provided further,
That notwithstanding any other provision of law, or May-
or’s Order 86–45, issued March 18, 1986, the Metropoli-
tan Police Department’s delegated small purchase author-
ity shall be $500,000: Provided further, That the District
of Columbia government may not require the Metropolitan
Police Department to submit to any other procurement re-
view process, or to obtain the approval of or be restricted
in any manner by any official or employee of the District
of Columbia government, for purchases that do not exceed
$500,000: Provided further, That the Mayor shall reim-
burse the District of Columbia National Guard for ex-
penses incurred in connection with services that are per-
formed in emergencies by the National Guard in a militia
status and are requested by the Mayor, in amounts that
shall be jointly determined and certified as due and pay-
able for these services by the Mayor and the Commanding
General of the District of Columbia National Guard: Pro-
vided further, That such sums as may be necessary for
reimbursement to the District of Columbia National
Guard under the preceding proviso shall be available from
this appropriation, and the availability of the sums shall
be deemed as constituting payment in advance for emer-
gency services involved: Provided further, That the Metro-
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politan Police Department is authorized to maintain 3,800
sworn officers, with leave for a 50 officer attrition: Pro-
vided further, That $100,000 shall be available for inmates
released on medical and geriatric parole: Provided further,
That commencing on December 31, 2000, the Metropoli-
tan Police Department shall provide to the Committees on
Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representa-
tives, the Committee on Governmental Affairs of the Sen-
ate, and the Committee on Government Reform of the
House of Representatives, quarterly reports on the status
of crime reduction in each of the 83 police service areas
established throughout the District of Columbia.
PUBLIC EDUCATION SYSTEM
Public education system, including the development
of national defense education programs, $995,418,000 (in-
cluding $821,367,000 from local funds, $147,643,000
from Federal funds, and $26,408,000 from other funds),
to
be
allocated
as
follows:
$769,443,000
(including
$628,809,000 from local funds, $133,490,000 from Fed-
eral funds, and $7,144,000 from other funds), for the pub-
lic schools of the District of Columbia; $200,000 from
local funds for the District of Columbia Teachers’ Retire-
ment Fund; $1,679,000 from local funds for the State
Education Office, $14,000,000 from local funds, pre-
viously appropriated in this Act as a Federal payment, for
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resident tuition support at public and private institutions
of higher learning for eligible District of Columbia resi-
dents; $105,000,000 from local funds for public charter
schools: Provided, That there shall be quarterly disburse-
ment of funds to the D.C. public charter schools, with the
first payment to occur within 15 days of the beginning
of each fiscal year: Provided further, That the D.C. public
charter schools will report enrollment on a quarterly basis:
Provided further, That the quarterly payment of October
15, 2000, shall be fifty (50) percent of each public charter
school’s annual entitlement based on its unaudited Octo-
ber 5 enrollment count: Provided further, That if the en-
tirety of this allocation has not been provided as payments
to any public charter schools currently in operation
through the per pupil funding formula, the funds shall be
available for public education in accordance with the
School
Reform
Act
of
1995
(D.C.
Code,
sec.
31–
2853.43(A)(2)(D); Public Law 104–134, as amended):
Provided further, That the Mayor of the District of Colum-
bia shall convene a task force to recommend changes,
which shall be released by December 31, 2000, to the
School Reform Act of 1995, for the purpose of instituting
a funding mechanism which will account for the projected
growth
of
charter
schools:
Provided
further,
That
$480,000 of this amount shall be available to the District
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of Columbia Public Charter School Board for administra-
tive costs: Provided further, That $76,433,000 (including
$44,691,000 from local funds, $13,199,000 from Federal
funds, and $18,543,000 from other funds) shall be avail-
able for the University of the District of Columbia: Pro-
vided further, That $200,000 is allocated for the East of
the River Campus Assessment Study, $1,000,000 for the
Excel Institute Adult Education Program to be used by
the Institute for construction and to acquire construction
services provided by the General Services Administration
on a reimbursable basis, $500,000 for the Adult Edu-
cation State Plan, $650,000 for The Saturday Academy
Pre-College Program, and $481,000 for the Strengthening
of
Academic
Programs;
and
$26,459,000
(including
$25,208,000 from local funds, $550,000 from Federal
funds and $701,000 other funds) for the Public Library:
Provided further, That the $1,020,000 enhancement shall
be allocated such that; $500,000 is used for facilities im-
provements for 8 of the 26 library branches, $235,000 for
13 FTEs for the continuation of the Homework Helpers
Program, $166,000 for 3 FTEs in the expansion of the
Reach Out And Roar (ROAR) service to license day care
homes, and $119,000 for 3 FTEs to expand literacy sup-
port
into
branch
libraries:
Provided
further,
That
$2,204,000
(including
$1,780,000
from
local
funds,