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Did the Council have to approve contracts over one million dollars for the Washington Convention Center Authority and other DC independent agencies, or only contracts run through the Mayor's office?
Yes, all of them. Section 451(b) of the DC charter (added by the 1995 federal control-board law) covers every contract by any DC government entity over one million dollars in a 12-month period, includ…
Could the District tap the Convention Center Fund, the Starplex Fund, or the Rainy Day Fund in 1995 to pay consultants studying whether to build a new convention center and a new MCI-style sports arena?
Yes. The Corporation Counsel concluded that feasibility and preconstruction studies were a necessary expense of constructing those facilities, and that all three funding sources, when combined with th…
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